National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer

National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Indian Cinema
Description
Description	Best Male Playback Singer for feature film for a year
Medal	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
Statistics
Instituted	1967
First awarded	1967
Last awarded	2015
Total awarded	51
Cash award	₹50,000 (US$740)
Previous name(s)	Best Playback Singer of the Year (1967)
First awardee(s)	Mahendra Kapoor
Recent awardee(s)	Mahesh Kale

The following is a list of winners of the National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) for Best Male Playback singer. The award was first granted to Mahendra Kapoor in the year 1967. The singer with the most awards in this category is K. J. Yesudas with seven wins for three different languages (Malayalam, Telugu & Hindi), followed by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam who won six times for 4 different languages; Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Shankar Mahadevan and Udit Narayan follow next winning three awards each. The singers Manna Dey, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, M. G. Sreekumar, Hariharan have bagged this award twice.