Anu Malik

Anu Malik is one of the most well known & successful music directors in the Hindi Film industry or Bollywood. He has created lovely music for the last two decade which include chart buster films like Baazigar(1993), Akele Hum Akele Tum (1996), Kareeb (1997), Border (1997), Refugee (2000), Fiza (2000), Asoka (2001), Aks (2001), Filhal (2002), LOC-Kargil (2003), Main Hoon Na (2004), Murder (2004) and others. His latest albumn this year is Umrao Jaan.

He is known to be the most versatile among the Indian music directors, giving music to almost all kinds of films, without being repetitive, which is said to be the reason for his success.

His versitality was best exibited in 2001 when he gave movies like Aks, Fiza, Filhal & Mujhe Kuch Kehena hai (among others), all loved by their respective audience, yet being exclusive in their kind.

Another speciality of Anu Malik is his choice of singers & lyricists. Unlike his peers like Nadeem Shravan, who tend to prefer main stream singers like Kumar Sanu & popular lyricist Sameer in all their films, Anu Malik has always tried different singers & lyricist. He was the first to use singers like KK, and Sonu Nigham as lead singers in his films, thus adding variety. Many of his hit albumns dont have one single lead lyrisict, instead a host of individual lyricist.

Anu Malik is one of the 3 judges in the tv show Indian Idol. He has won Filmfare Best Music Director Award twice (Main Hoon Na 2004 and Baazigar 1993). In 2001, he won The National Film Award for Best Music Direction for the film Refugee.

Anu Malik is criticized for taking inspiration from other composers. But, Anu Malik pays the required credits on the album cover to the original composer most often.== External links ==

• Lyrics of songs composed by Anu Malik

Lets not forget the patriotic song 'Mera mulk mera desh' from Diljale, the tune of which is taken from the Israeli National Anthem.