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Mirchi Music Awards are presented annually by Radio Mirchi to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film music industry of India. The awards, given in seventeen different categories, were instituted to award the best of 2008.[1][2] In 2010, the Southern edition of the awards – Mirchi Music Awards South was launched, to award the best of 2009.[3] through which artists from the four South Indian film industries—Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam—are being honoured.[4] In 2012, the Bengali edition of the awards – Mirchi Music Awards Bangla was launched, to award the best of 2011.[5] The 2019 Mirchi Music Awards is co-powered by Smule, the world's largest music social network, and will have the winner of the Smule Mirchi Cover Star perform on stage at the event.
The jury for both editions of the awards consists of several experts from the Bollywood music industry. Javed Akhtar, poet and lyricist, is the chairman of the jury. The other members are (listed alphabetically) music composers Aadesh Shrivastava, Pandit Sujit Ojha, Anu Malik, Lalit Pandit and Louis Banks, playback singers Alka Yagnik, Kailash Kher, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan, Sukhwinder Singh, Suresh Wadkar & Udit Narayan lyricist Prasoon Joshi, and directors Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Ramesh Sippy.[15]
Critics' Choice Awards
Song of The Year
Album of The Year
Male Vocalist of The Year
Female Vocalist of The Year
Music Composer of The Year
Lyricist of The Year
Upcoming Male Vocalist of The Year
Upcoming Female Vocalist of The Year
Upcoming Music Composer of The Year
Upcoming Lyricist of The Year
Technical Awards
Sound Engineer of the Year
Year
Recipient
Song
Film
2014
Satchith Harve and Praveen Muralidhar
"Manwa Laage"
Happy New Year
Song Mixing
Year
Recipient
Song
Film
2011
Vijay Dayal & Mark 'Exit' Goodchild
"Chammak Challo"
Ra.One
2010
Salman Khan Afridi & Farhad K Dadyburjor
"Dil To Bachcha Hai"
Ishqiya
2009
H. Sridhar, S. Sivakumar, Deepak. P. A., Vivianne Chaix
Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amaal Mallik, Zack Knight, Guru Randhawa, Rochak Kohli, Rajat Nagpal, Saurabh-Vaibhav
2017
Jagga Jasoos
Pritam Chakraborty
2016
Dangal
Pritam Chakraborty
2015
Roy
Amaal Mallik, Meet Bros Anjjan, Ankit Tiwari
2014
Ek Villain
Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari & Soch (Band)
2013
Aashiqui 2
Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari & Jeet Gannguli
2012
Student of the Year
Vishal–Shekhar
2011
Rockstar
A. R. Rahman
2010
Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai
Pritam Chakraborty
2009
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Pritam Chakraborty
2008
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
A. R. Rahman
Special awards
Jury Award for Outstanding Contribution to Hindi Film Music
Year
Award recipient
Profession
2019
Amar Haldipur
Music Composer
2018
Rajendra Singh Sodha
Musician
2017
Ameen Sayani
Radio Announcer
2016
Y. S.Mulky
Musician
2015
Yogesh
Lyricist
2014
Burjor Lord
Musician
2013
Sumit Mitra
Musician
2012
Babloo Chakroborty
Musician
2011
Babla Shah
Music composer
2010
Charanjit Singh
Musician
2009
Kersi Lord
Music composer, arranger
2008
Manohari Singh
Music arranger
Best item number song
Year
Song
Recipient
Film
2011
"Ooh La La"
Bappi Lahiri, Shreya Ghoshal Rajat Arora Vishal–Shekhar
The Dirty Picture
Lifetime Achievement Award / K. L. Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award
The award was given to Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar in 2008. The award was renamed in 2009 as K. L. Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award, in honour of singer Kundan Lal Saigal. The award was given to Indian Playback singer K. J. Yesudas in 2010.
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