National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer

National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
National Award for contributions to Indian Cinema
The 2022 recipient: Arijit Singh
Awarded for	Best Male Playback Singer for feature film for a year
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Formerly called	Best Playback Singer of the Year (1967)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹200,000 (US$2,400)
First awarded	1967
Last awarded	2022
Most recent winner	Arijit Singh for "Kesariya" from Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva
Highlights
Most awards	K. J. Yesudas (8)
Total awarded	54
First winner	Mahendra Kapoor
Website	https://dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6

The National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer (officially known as the Rajat Kamal Award for the Best Male Playback Singer) is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to a male playback singer for the best renditions of songs from soundtracks within the Indian film industry. The award was first granted to Mahendra Kapoor in 1967. The singers whose performances have won awards have worked in nine major languages: Hindi (19 awards), Malayalam (9 awards), Bengali (7 awards), Telugu (5 awards), Tamil, Marathi and Kannada (4 each), and Punjabi (1 award).

The singer with the most awards in this category is K. J. Yesudas with eight wins for three languages (Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi), followed by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam who won six times for four languages (Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Tamil). Udit Narayan and Shankar Mahadevan follow next, winning three awards each. The singers Manna Dey, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, M. G. Sreekumar, Hariharan and Arijit Singh have bagged this award twice.