Indian Lyricists Index

Indian Lyricists Index

The musical landscape of the Indian subcontinent has evolved through the confluence of numerous languages, cultures, and traditions. One of the principal forces behind this rich musical heritage is the lyricist—whose words, poetic expression, and imagination provide songs with their soul and emotional depth. Lyricists working across languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, and many others have, through their creations, secured a lasting place in the hearts of millions of listeners over several decades.
This compilation brings together the names of notable lyricists, presenting each in both Bengali and Roman scripts, along with their dates of birth and death (where applicable), and the languages in which they composed songs, thereby serving as a useful reference for research and documentation.

Indian Lyricists Index

  1. Shailendra — Born: 30 August 1923 — Died: 14 December 1966 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  2. Sahir Ludhianvi — Born: 8 March 1921 — Died: 25 October 1980 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi

  3. Shakeel Badayuni — Born: 3 August 1916 — Died: 20 April 1970 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  4. Hasrat Jaipuri — Born: 15 April 1922 — Died: 17 September 1999 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  5. Anand Bakshi — Born: 21 July 1930 — Died: 30 March 2002 — Languages: Hindi, Punjabi

  6. Gulzar — Born: 18 August 1934 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi

  7. Javed Akhtar — Born: 17 January 1945 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  8. Kaifi Azmi — Born: 14 January 1919 — Died: 10 May 2002 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  9. Majrooh Sultanpuri — Born: 1 October 1919 — Died: 24 May 2000 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  10. Neeraj (Gopaldas Saxena) — Born: 4 January 1925 — Died: 19 July 2018 — Language: Hindi

  11. Indeevar — Born: 18 August 1924 — Died: 28 February 1997 — Language: Hindi

  12. Rajinder Krishan — Born: 6 June 1919 — Died: 23 September 1987 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  13. Prem Dhawan — Born: 13 June 1923 — Died: 7 May 2001 — Languages: Hindi, Punjabi

  14. Bharat Vyas — Born: 6 January 1918 — Died: 4 July 1982 — Language: Hindi

  15. Gulshan Bawra — Born: 11 April 1937 — Died: 7 August 2009 — Languages: Hindi, Punjabi

  16. Yogesh (Yogesh Gaur) — Born: 19 March 1933 — Died: 29 May 2020 — Language: Hindi

  17. Verma Malik — Born: 13 April 1925 — Died: 15 March 2009 — Language: Hindi

  18. Naqsh Lyallpuri — Born: 24 February 1928 — Died: 22 January 2017 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  19. S. H. Bihari (Shamsul Huda Bihari) — Born: 1922 — Died: 25 February 1987 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  20. Kavi Pradeep — Born: 6 February 1915 — Died: 11 December 1998 — Language: Hindi

  21. D. N. Madhok — Born: 22 October 1902 — Died: 9 July 1982 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi

  22. Pandit Narottam Vyas — Born: 1902 — Died: 1978 — Language: Hindi

  23. Kedar Sharma — Born: 12 April 1910 — Died: 29 April 1999 — Language: Hindi

  24. J. S. Kashyap — Dates unknown — Language: Hindi

  25. Santosh Anand — Born: 5 March 1939 — Language: Hindi

  26. Sameer Anjaan — Born: 24 February 1958 — Language: Hindi

  27. Prasoon Joshi — Born: 16 September 1971 — Language: Hindi

  28. Irshad Kamil — Born: 5 September 1971 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  29. Amitabh Bhattacharya — Born: 16 November 1976 — Languages: Hindi, Bengali

  30. Manoj Muntashir — Born: 27 February 1976 — Language: Hindi

  31. Swanand Kirkire — Born: 29 April 1970 — Languages: Hindi, Marathi

  32. Varun Grover — Born: 26 January 1980 — Language: Hindi

  33. Kausar Munir — Born: 1981 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  34. Mayur Puri — Born: 1974 — Language: Hindi

  35. Anvita Dutt — Born: 2 February 1972 — Language: Hindi

  36. Piyush Mishra — Born: 13 January 1963 — Language: Hindi

  37. Farhan Akhtar — Born: 9 January 1974 — Language: Hindi

  38. Niranjan Iyengar — Born: 1972 — Languages: Hindi, English

  39. Jan Nisar Akhtar — Born: 18 February 1914 — Died: 19 August 1976 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  40. Ali Sardar Jafri — Born: 29 November 1913 — Died: 1 August 2000 — Language: Urdu

  41. Sudarshan Faakir — Born: 1934 — Died: 8 February 2008 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  42. Nasir Faraaz — Born: 1979 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  43. Hussain Haidry — Born: 1989 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  44. Arjuna Harjai — Born: 1990 — Language: Hindi

  45. Adesh Shrivastava — Born: 4 September 1964 — Died: 5 September 2015 — Language: Hindi

  46. Harivansh Rai Bachchan — Born: 27 November 1907 — Died: 18 January 2003 — Language: Hindi

  47. Faiz Ahmed Faiz — Born: 13 February 1911 — Died: 20 November 1984 — Languages: Urdu, Punjabi

  48. Ahmed Faraz — Born: 14 January 1931 — Died: 25 August 2008 — Language: Urdu

  49. Rahat Indori — Born: 1 January 1950 — Died: 11 August 2020 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  50. Bashir Badr — Born: 15 February 1935 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  1. Vairamuthu — Born: 13 July 1953 — Language: Tamil

  2. Vayalar Ramavarma — Born: 25 March 1928 — Died: 27 October 1975 — Language: Malayalam

  3. Thamarai — Born: 10 November 1965 — Language: Tamil

  4. P. Bhaskaran — Born: 21 April 1924 — Died: 25 February 2007 — Language: Malayalam

  5. Srijato — Born: 23 September 1983 — Language: Bengali

  6. Surinder Kaur — Born: 25 November 1929 — Died: 14 June 2006 — Language: Punjabi

  7. Palash Sen — Born: 23 September 1965 — Languages: Hindi, Bengali

  8. Kabir Suman — Born: 16 March 1949 — Languages: Bengali, Hindi

  9. Hasan Kamal — Born: 1 July 1943 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  10. Kandikonda — Born: 1978 — Language: Telugu

  11. Kaviraj — Born: 1976 — Language: Bengali

  12. Yusufali Kechery — Born: 16 May 1935 — Died: 21 August 2015 — Language: Malayalam

  13. Poovachal Khader — Born: 16 February 1941 — Died: 13 June 2021 — Language: Malayalam

  14. Acharya Aatreya — Born: 7 May 1921 — Died: 13 September 1989 — Language: Telugu

  15. Abhayadev — Born: 1913 — Died: 1987 — Language: Malayalam

  16. Aarudra — Born: 31 August 1925 — Died: 4 June 1998 — Language: Telugu

  17. Bachaspatimayum Jayantakumar Sharma — Born: 1949 — Language: Manipuri

  18. Raja Badhe — Born: 1912 — Died: 1977 — Language: Marathi

  19. Shabbir Kumar — Born: 26 October 1954 — Language: Hindi

  20. Maninder Kailey — Born: 1980 — Language: Punjabi

  21. K. Kalyan — Born: 2 February 1975 — Language: Kannada

  22. Jay Sarkar — Born: 1971 — Language: Bengali

  23. Sagarika Mukherjee — Born: 1988 — Language: Bengali

  24. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan — Born: 1915 — Died: 27 July 1966 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  25. Shams-ul-Huda Bihari — Born: 1922 — Died: 25 February 1987 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  1. Vishal Bhardwaj — Born: 4 August 1965 — Language: Hindi

  2. Sunil Sirohi — Born: 1968 — Language: Hindi

  3. Kumaar — Born: 12 October 1973 — Language: Hindi

  4. Shailendra Singh — Born: 4 October 1952 — Language: Hindi

  5. Raghav — Born: 2 April 1981 — Languages: Hindi, English

  6. Kunal Deshmukh — Born: 1982 — Language: Hindi

  7. Amit Trivedi — Born: 8 April 1979 — Languages: Hindi, Gujarati

  8. Shekhar Ravjiani — Born: 29 November 1978 — Language: Hindi

  9. Siddharth–Garima — Siddharth Singh (born 1988), Garima Wahal (born 1987) — Language: Hindi

  10. Tanishk Bagchi — Born: 23 November 1980 — Languages: Hindi, Bengali

  11. Mithoon (Mithoon Sharma) — Born: 11 January 1985 — Language: Hindi

  12. Raj Shekhar — Born: 1978 — Language: Hindi

  13. Zubeen Garg — Born: 18 November 1972 — Languages: Assamese, Hindi, Bengali

  14. Anupam Roy — Born: 29 March 1982 — Languages: Bengali, Hindi

  15. Rupankar Bagchi — Born: 21 September 1972 — Language: Bengali

  16. Debojyoti Mishra — Born: 1963 — Languages: Bengali, Hindi

  17. Siddhartha Roy — Born: 1960 — Language: Bengali

  18. Rabindranath Tagore — Born: 7 May 1861 — Died: 7 August 1941 — Languages: Bengali, English

  19. Salil Chowdhury — Born: 19 November 1923 — Died: 5 September 1995 — Languages: Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam

  20. Gouriprasanna Mazumdar — Born: 5 December 1925 — Died: 20 August 1986 — Language: Bengali

  21. Pulak Bandyopadhyay — Born: 1931 — Died: 7 September 1999 — Language: Bengali

  22. Mukul Dutta — Born: 1930 — Died: 2004 — Language: Bengali

  23. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry — Born: 20 May 1955 — Died: 30 November 2021 — Language: Telugu

  24. Chandrabose — Born: 1972 — Language: Telugu

  25. Ramajogayya Sastry — Born: 1971 — Language: Telugu

  1. Vaali — Born: 29 October 1931 — Died: 18 July 2013 — Language: Tamil

  2. Kannadasan — Born: 24 June 1927 — Died: 17 October 1981 — Language: Tamil

  3. O. N. V. Kurup — Born: 27 May 1931 — Died: 13 February 2016 — Language: Malayalam

  4. Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri — Born: 11 March 1950 — Language: Malayalam

  5. Girish Puthenchery — Born: 1 May 1961 — Died: 10 February 2010 — Language: Malayalam

  6. Veturi Sundararama Murthy — Born: 29 January 1936 — Died: 22 May 2010 — Language: Telugu

  7. Anantha Sriram — Born: 8 April 1985 — Language: Telugu

  8. Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar — Born: 1971 — Language: Telugu

  9. Suddala Ashok Teja — Born: 4 May 1954 — Language: Telugu

  10. Krishna Chaitanya — Born: 1980 — Language: Telugu

  11. Pingali Nagendra Rao — Born: 2 August 1901 — Died: 15 March 1971 — Language: Telugu

  12. Samudrala (Samudrala Raghavacharya) — Born: 1902 — Died: 1968 — Language: Telugu

  13. Kulasekhar — Born: 1964 — Language: Telugu

  14. Bhuvana Chandra — Born: 1945 — Language: Telugu

  15. Shyamal Gupta — Born: 1922 — Died: 2010 — Language: Bengali

  16. Atul Prasad Sen — Born: 20 October 1871 — Died: 26 August 1934 — Language: Bengali

  17. Pranab Roy — Born: 1911 — Died: 1975 — Language: Bengali

  18. Shailen Roy — Born: 1909 — Died: 1995 — Language: Bengali

  19. Ajoy Bhattacharya — Born: 1909 — Died: 1979 — Language: Bengali

  20. Shibdas Banerjee — Born: 1903 — Died: 1984 — Language: Bengali

  21. Ratan Saha — Born: 1931 — Died: 2016 — Language: Bengali

  22. Mohini Chowdhury — Born: 1920 — Died: 1987 — Language: Bengali

  23. Kazi Nazrul Islam — Born: 25 May 1899 — Died: 29 August 1976 — Languages: Bengali, Urdu

  24. Satindranath Dutta — Born: 11 February 1882 — Died: 25 June 1922 — Language: Bengali

  25. Jibanananda Das — Born: 17 February 1899 — Died: 22 October 1954 — Language: Bengali

  1. Sukanta Bhattacharya — Born: 15 August 1926 — Died: 13 May 1947 — Language: Bengali

  2. Shantanu Biswas — Born: 1960 — Language: Bengali

  3. Rupam Islam — Born: 25 January 1974 — Language: Bengali

  4. Anindya Chatterjee — Born: 1964 — Language: Bengali

  5. Sumedha Nair — Born: 1985 — Language: Malayalam

  6. Gurdas Maan — Born: 4 January 1957 — Languages: Punjabi, Hindi

  7. Satinder Sartaaj — Born: 31 August 1982 — Language: Punjabi

  8. Babbu Maan — Born: 18 March 1975 — Language: Punjabi

  9. Palani Bharathi — Born: 1964 — Language: Tamil

  10. Gana Bala — Born: 16 June 1970 — Language: Tamil

  11. Arivu — Born: 1990 — Language: Tamil

  12. Madhurakavi Bhaskara Das — Born: 1892 — Died: 1952 — Language: Tamil

  13. Gangai Amaran — Born: 8 December 1947 — Language: Tamil

  14. Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma — Born: 25 March 1961 — Language: Malayalam

  15. Vinayak Sasikumar — Born: 1981 — Language: Malayalam

  16. Kedamangalam Sadanandan — Born: 1950 — Language: Malayalam

  17. Bharanikkavu Sivakumar — Born: 1961 — Language: Malayalam

  18. Pandalam Sudhakaran — Born: 1955 — Language: Malayalam

  19. Bichu Thirumala — Born: 13 February 1941 — Died: 26 November 2021 — Language: Malayalam

  20. C. Narayana Reddy — Born: 29 July 1931 — Died: 12 June 2017 — Language: Telugu

  21. Annamacharya — Born: 9 May 1408 — Died: 23 February 1503 — Languages: Telugu, Sanskrit

  22. Vanamali — Born: 1978 — Language: Telugu

  23. Rajanikanta Sen — Born: 26 July 1865 — Died: 13 September 1910 — Language: Bengali

  24. Dwijendralal Ray — Born: 19 July 1863 — Died: 17 May 1913 — Language: Bengali

  25. Kamalakanta Bhattacharya — Born: 1769 — Died: 1821 — Language: Bengali

  26. Tarashankar Bandopadhyay — Born: 23 July 1898 — Died: 14 September 1971 — Language: Bengali

  27. Lopamudra Mitra — Born: 7 July 1961 — Language: Bengali

  28. Silajit Majumdar — Born: 1965 — Language: Bengali

  29. Upal Sengupta — Born: 1965 — Language: Bengali

  30. Gaurab Chatterjee — Born: 1981 — Language: Bengali

  31. Happy Raikoti — Born: 12 May 1992 — Language: Punjabi

  32. Debi Makhsoospuri — Born: 10 June 1964 — Language: Punjabi

  33. Raj Ranjodh — Born: 1978 — Language: Punjabi

  34. Jaani — Born: 25 May 1989 — Languages: Punjabi, Hindi

  35. Sidhu Moose Wala — Born: 11 June 1993 — Died: 29 May 2022 — Language: Punjabi

  36. Nusrat Badr — Born: 9 November 1945 — Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  37. Manan Bhardwaj — Born: 22 August 1991 — Language: Hindi

  38. Surabhi Dashputra — Born: 1985 — Language: Hindi

  39. Asad Bhopali — Born: 10 July 1921 — Died: 9 June 1990 — Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  40. Khumar Barabankvi — Born: 20 September 1919 — Died: 19 February 1999 — Language: Urdu

  41. Kavi Kalidas — Dates unknown — Language: Sanskrit

  42. Jahar Mukherjee — Born: 1919 — Died: 2003 — Language: Bengali

  43. Priya Chatterjee — Born: 1980 — Language: Bengali

  44. Ramprasad Sen — Born: 1718 — Died: 1775 — Language: Bengali

  45. Ravindra Jain — Born: 28 February 1944 — Died: 9 October 2015 — Language: Hindi

  46. Pulamaipithan — Born: 1935 — Language: Tamil

  47. Muthulingam — Born: 1942 — Language: Tamil

  48. Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam — Born: 1920 — Died: 1991 — Language: Tamil

  49. Panchu Arunachalam — Born: 1941 — Died: 9 August 2016 — Language: Tamil

  50. Na. Muthukumar — Born: 12 July 1975 — Died: 14 August 2016 — Language: Tamil

  51. Madhan Karky — Born: 10 March 1980 — Language: Tamil

  52. Pa. Vijay — Born: 20 October 1974 — Language: Tamil

  53. Vignesh Shivan — Born: 18 September 1985 — Language: Tamil

  54. Arivumathi — Born: 1965 — Language: Tamil

  55. Anthony Daasan — Born: 1976 — Language: Tamil

  56. Dhamayanthi — Born: 1970 — Language: Tamil

  57. K. S. Gopalakrishnan — Born: 1929 — Died: 2015 — Language: Tamil

  58. Bharathiyar (Subramania Bharati) — Born: 11 December 1882 — Died: 11 September 1921 — Language: Tamil

  59. Ilaiyaraaja — Born: 2 June 1943 — Language: Tamil

  60. Tamil Nambi — Dates unknown — Language: Tamil

  61. Aswathy Sreekanth — Born: 1986 — Language: Malayalam

  62. Aristo Suresh — Born: 1980 — Language: Malayalam

  63. Sri Sri (Srirangam Srinivasa Rao) — Born: 30 April 1910 — Died: 15 June 1983 — Language: Telugu

  64. Amit Desai — Born: 1969 — Language: Hindi

This index is an ongoing compilation. As new lyricists continue to contribute to the world of music, and as additional historical information about earlier lyricists is discovered and verified, further names, corrections, and relevant data will be incorporated over time. The aim is to develop this list into an increasingly comprehensive and reliable reference resource for researchers, music enthusiasts, and interested readers alike.

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