page_title: List of Marathi people in the performing arts
section_title: Singers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Marathi people in the performing arts / Singers
caption_attribution_description: English: First Indian Idol Abhijeet Sawant Picture clicked in 2015.
context_page_description: Film directors
  Abhinay Deo – Is an Indian film director, his first movie was Game and his second was Delhi Belly
  Amol Palekar – Bollywood director & actor, received award for best actor of 1979 for film "Gol Maal"
  Amol Gupte – Bollywood director & actor, received award for best screen play for film "Taare Zameen Par"
  Anand Patwardhan – An Indian documentary filmmaker, known for his activism through social action documentaries on topics such as corruption, slum dwellers, etc.
  Ashutosh Gowarikar – director of Lagaan
  Baburao Mistry – Wrote his own screenplays; first Indian filmmaker to adopt the method of "Stenographic", the method Satyajit Ray adopted for Pather Panchali
  Bhagwan Dada – Film director, producer and actor
  Bhalji Pendharkar – Director, was associated with Prabhat Film Company, also received Dadasahab Phalke Award
  Dadasaheb Phalke –;irected the first Indian feature film, the "father of Indian cinema"; directed 95 movies and 26 short films in a span of 19 years
  Dadasaheb Torne- made first Indian film named Shree Pundlik in the year 1912
  Deepak Kadam – Director of various Video Albums, Ad films, TV serials & Marathi Feature Films.
context_section_description: Aarya Ambekar – singer
  Abhijeet Sawant – singer
  Anupama Deshpande – playback singer
  Arun Date – singer
  Asha Bhosle – playback singer
  Bela Shende – playback singer
  Devaki Pandit – singer
  Hema Sardesai- Bollywood playback singer
  Hridaynath Mangeshkar – playback singer, was awarded Padmashri by Government of India in 2009
  Kaushal Inamdar – music composer, director
  Lata Mangeshkar – one of the most prominent female playback artists of Indian cinema; music composer; first Indian singer to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for having made most recordings in the world (1974–1991)
  Manik Varma – Classical singer, awarded Padma Shri in 1974
  Meena Mangeshkar – playback singer
  Milind Ingle – Marathi and Hindi music composer and singer
  Nihira Joshi – singer
  Prajakta Shukre – singer
  Rahul Vaidya – singer
  Sadhana Sargam – Bollywood playback singer
  Sandeep Khare – poet and singer
  Saleel Kulkarni - singer, musician, author, director
  Sanjivani - singer
  Shalmali Kholgade – singer
  Shridhar Phadke – Marathi music composer and singer, son of Sudhir Phadke
  Sudesh Bhosle - Bollywood playback singer
  Sudhir Phadke (25 July 1919, Kolhapur – 29 July 2002) – Marathi music composer and singer
  Suresh Wadkar – playback singer
  Usha Mangeshkar – singer
  Vaishali Samant – singer
caption: Abhijeet Sawant
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