16th RMIM Puraskaar (2021)

Album of the Year

Atrangi Re

A R Rahman, Irshad Kamil

Other Top Albums

Song of the Year

tere ra.ng (Atrangi Re)

A R Rahman, Irshad Kamil, Haricharan Seshadri, Shreya Ghoshal

Other Top Songs

Lyricist of the Year

This award is in recognition of overall performance during the year.

Irshad Kamil

For Atrangi Re and Tadap

Music Director of the Year

This award is in recognition of overall performance during the year

A R Rahman

For Atrangi Re, Mimi, and 99 Songs

Female Singer of the Year

This award is in recognition of overall performance during the year

Shreya Ghoshal

Male Singer of the Year

This award is in recognition of overall performance during the year

Arijit Singh

New Artist of the Year

This award recognizes promising new (not necessarily debut) talent of the year. This year the award is given to two artists.

Navneet Virk

For lyric writing

and

Puneet Sharma

For lyric writing

Best Composed and Arranged Songs

tere ran.g (Atrangi Re) by A R Rahman

rattii rattii rezaa rezaa (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) by Justin Prabhakaran
tumhe.n muhabbat (Atrangi Re) by A R Rahman
gorii god bharii (99 Songs) by A R Rahman
ret zaraa sii (Atrangi Re) by A R Rahman
tuu yahii.n hai (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) by Justin Prabhakaran

Best Written Songs

rattii rattii rezaa rezaa (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) by Raj Shekhar

bandar baa.NT (Sherni) by Hussain Haidry
tuu yahii.n hai (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) by Raj Shekhar
tumhe.n muhabbat (Atrangi Re) by Irshad Kamil
param sundarii (Mimi) by Amitabh Bhattacharya

Best Sung Songs (Solo)

tumhe.n muhabbat (Atrangi Re) by Arijit Singh

purvaiyaa (Toofaan) by Shankar Mahadevan
param sundarii (Mimi) by Shreya Ghoshal
ananyaa (Toofaan) by Arijit Singh
piir merii piyaa jaane naa (Mera Fauji Calling) by Rabbani Mustafa Khan

Best Sung Songs (Duet or Group)

tere ra.ng (Atrangi Re) by Haricharan Seshadri, Shreya Ghoshal

rattii rattii rezaa rezaa (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) by Abhay Jodhpurkar, Shreya Ghoshal
tuu yahii.n hai (Meenakshi Sundareshwar) by Abhay Jodhpurkar, Madhushree, Resmi Sateesh
tho.De kam ajanabii (Pagglait) by Himani Kapoor, Arijit Singh

Non-Film Song of the Year

boo.Ndaa baa.Ndii

Meghdeep Bose, Manoj Yadav, Shekhar Ravjiani

Other Top Non-Film Songs

Non-Film Artist or Group of the Year

This award is in recognition of overall performance during the year

Pratibha Singh Baghel

Best Composed and Arranged Non-Film Songs

boo.Ndaa baa.Ndii by Meghdeep Bose

sukoon (Unbounded Abaad) by Purbayan Chatterjee
shukriyaa by The Non Violinst Project
rusavaaiyaa.N (Songs of Love) by Amit Trivedi
beqaraa.N kaayanaat (Bole Naina) by Deepak Pandit

Best Written Non-Film Songs

beqaraa.N kaayanaat (Bole Naina) by Gulzar

bahatii bhii nahii.n aa.Nkhe.n (Bole Naina) by Gulzar
raat ko jaane (Bole Naina) by Gulzar
o jogiyaa (Grahan) by Varun Grover
chorii chorii (Grahan) by Varun Grover
jaane.n bachaae.Nge by Neelesh Misra

Best Sung Non-Film Songs

a.Nganaa more by Shreya Ghoshal

o jogiyaa (Grahan) by Asees Kaur, Shahid Mallya
bahatii bhii nahii.n aa.Nkhe.n (Bole Naina) by Pratibha Singh Baghel
beqaraa.N kaayanaat (Bole Naina) by Pratibha Singh Baghel
wo dekhanaa bhii by Prithvi Gandharv, Pratibha Singh Baghel
ghar aao naa (Bhoomi 2021) by Sunidhi Chauhan
lagan laagii re (Songs of Love) by Amit Trivedi, Kavita Seth, Shreya Ghoshal
boo.Ndaa baa.Ndii by Shekhar Ravjiani
shukriyaa by Abhay Jodhpurkar, The Non Violinist Project

RMIM Sammaan

All-time "Hall of Excellence" entry.

Atrangi Re

A R Rahman, Irshad Kamil, Shreya Ghoshal, Haricharan Seshadri, Arijit Singh, Shashaa Tirupati, Rashid Ali, Dhanush, Hiral Viradia

Pagglait

Arijit Singh, Neelesh Misra, Himani Kapoor, Raja Kumari, Amrita Singh, Neeti Mohan, Sunny M R, Antara Mitra, Raftaar

Top Albums Top Songs Top Non-Film Songs

Jury members

Meera Damji, Suanshu Khurana, Vaishali Khushalani, Vaidehi Krishnan, Anish Mohanty, Sumi Panch, Anup Pandey, Vishal Patel, Sanjeev Ramabhadran, U V Ravindra, Shalini Razdan, Pankaj Sachdeva, Nishant Shah, Karthik Srinivasan, Nidheesh Tyagi, Arun Verma, Sukanya Verma, Aman Wadhwa

A Summary Note