National Film Award for Best Lyrics

Although the Indian film industry produces films in around 20 languages and dialects,[1] the recipients of the award include those who have worked in seven major languages: Hindi (17 awards), Tamil (11 awards), Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam (4 awards each), Punjabi and Haryanvi (1 award each).

Tamil poet Kannadasan was the first recipient of the award.

He won the prize for his work in the 1967 Tamil film Kuzhanthaikkaga.

The lyricist who won the most Rajat Kamal awards is Vairamuthu (Tamil) with seven wins,[2][3] followed by Javed Akhtar (Hindi) with five wins.

Muthukumar (Tamil) have won the award on two occasions.

Kannadasan was the first recipient in this category.

With seven wins, Vairamuthu is the most awarded lyricist in this category.

With five wins, Javed Akhtar is the second-most awarded lyricist in this category.