29 Indian guitarists

Aaryan Banthia is an Indian singer-guitarist, composer and record producer presently based in Mumbai, and linked with the Zee Music Company for his latest releases. He released his first single "Yaadein'" the year in October 2019.

Gaurav Bhatt is a music director, singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Jaipur, India. He has an Indian classical background and sings in the traditional Indian style. Known for his fine work in Fusion, Romantic and Instrumentals melodies.

Salil Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. He is the son of the fellow slide player and Grammy Award winner, Padmashree Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, also known as V. M. Bhatt, is a Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan veena.

Asha Bhosle(née Mangeshkar; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer and entrepreneur. She is best known for her playback singing in Marathi and Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over seven decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand movies. In addition, she has recorded several private albums and participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad. In 2006, Asha Bhosle stated that she had sung over 12,000 songs, a figure repeated by several other sources. In 2011, she was officially acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded artist in music history. The Government of India honoured her with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2008. Bhosle is the sister of playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and belongs to the prominent Mangeshkar family.

Blackstratblues is a solo project of Warren Mendonsa, who is a guitarist, composer and record producer currently based primarily out of Mumbai. All of his music under the moniker of Blackstratblues is self-released. The early albums released under the moniker of Blackstratblues were mostly solo efforts. While, the recent albums have been more of a group effort. He was the lead guitarist of the cult Indian rock band Zero in mid-00s.

Debasis Chakroborty is an Indian classical slide guitar player who belongs to the Senia-Maihar Gharana. Chakroborty was born in Calcutta, India, and was groomed in the atmosphere of music from his childhood. He began learning guitar from his father Sh. Madhusudan Chakroborty. He then came under the tutelage of Pt. Barun Kumar Pal, a renowned guitarist from Kolkata and Pandit Jotin Bhattacharya, an eminent Sarod player and senior disciple of Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan Sahib of Maihar Gharana. Later on, Debasis became a disciple of the guitar maestro Pundit Brij Bhushan Kabra.

Mohit Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, known for his work in Hindi films. He was a part of the Silk Route band. Chauhan has received two Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and three Zee Cine Award For Best Male Playback Singer awards. He has recorded several songs for Indian films and albums in other languages. He is one of the most prominent Indie pop singers of India.

Nikhil D'Souza is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Mumbai, India, and is now signed to East West Records of Warner Music UK.

Amyt Datta is a guitarist, and producer from Kolkata. He is also a popular music composer, teacher and mentor. Datta, who commands a sort of demigod status with guitar fans across the country, is widely acknowledged to be one of the most innovative guitarists around today. He toured extensively with the rock band Shiva from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He now plays and composes for experimental band Pinknoise, pop/rock band Skinny Alley, and his own solo work, often in collaboration with Jivraj Singh.

Baiju Dharmajan is an Indian guitarist, music composer, producer and guitar tutor based out of Kochi, Kerala. A celebrated musician in his own country, Baiju had an extended stint during the 2000s as the lead guitarist of the Indian rock band Motherjane. He has been nicknamed the "God of Small Strings" by his fans. Baiju is particularly noted for his winding, Carnatic-inspired progressive rock and enduring guitar solos.

Sunil Ganguly was an Indian instrumentalist from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) who played the Hawaiian electric guitar. He created many albums from HMV India, now Saregama India, Concorde Records, Sagarika, during his long career (1957—1999) with his instrumental renditions of Indian Hindi film songs, Classical based songs, Ghazals of prominent composers like Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, Bade Ghulam Ali, Bengali film songs and modern songs, Nazrulgeeti, Rabindrasangeet and popularised the Hawaiian guitar in India. His renditions often had subtle twists and turns that made it even more melodious than the original song.

Jeet Gannguli, popularly known as Jeet, is a score composer of Bengali and Hindi movies. Gannguli is a music director in Bollywood, scoring music for films.

Shakthisree Gopalan is an Indian vocalist, songwriter and performer, famous for her collaborations with the top south-Indian music directors/composers like A. R. Rahman. Aside from the film music, she is a regular in the independent music scene, performing with various bands over the years dabbling in Pop, R'n'B, trip-hop and jazz.

Justin James is a composer, singer, and guitarist in Malayalam films. He is one of the founders of the Malayalam music composers group, 4 Musics.

Brij Bhushan Kabra was an Indian musician who popularized the guitar as an instrument in Indian classical music.

Lou Majaw is a performing artist from Shillong in the North-Eastern India and is renowned for his Bob Dylan tribute shows.

Pranav Mohanlal is an Indian actor, singer, and songwriter, who works in Malayalam film industry. The son of actor Mohanlal, he began acting as a child with a minor role in his father's film Onnaman (2002), followed by a leading role in Punarjani in the same year, for which he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. He then decided to take a break from acting to focus on his studies. After that he kept a distance away from cinema and was not keen on returning to pursue acting anytime soon. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of New South Wales.

Arko Pravo Mukherjee, known better by the mononym Arko, is an Indian singer-songwriter and music composer who has worked in the Bollywood film industry since 2012. Jism 2 was his debut film as a music composer and lyricist.

Sanjeev T is an Indian music producer, composer, singer, guitarist, and performer. Sanjeev’s music is an amalgamation of indie, rock, reggae, fusion, and jazz sounds. Currently, he is an independent music producer in Chennai and also the founder and chief mentor at Rainbow Bridge, a music school and production studio in Bangalore. He is most known for his work as a lead guitarist with A.R. Rahman and played for movies like Rockstar, Delhi-6, Vinnaithandi Varuvaya, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Blue, Endhiran and more. He also worked with Bollywood music directors Pritam and Anu Malik and other Indian music directors like Shaan Rahman, Ghibran and Leon James. He has also composed music for two Malayalam movies, Vilakkumaram (2017) and Manoharam (2019). Apart from his work in the movie industry, he has officially released three albums, Freewill (2012), Epic Shit (2013) and St. (2018) with the fourth album, Future, scheduled for release in 2020. Two singles from his next album, Future, have already been released.

Biswabijoy Sen is a singer/songwriter from Kolkata, born in Silchar, Assam and was the frontman of the Hindi Rock band Kollage. Currently based in Mumbai, he is now a music composer for movies in Bengali and Hindi.

Vidushi Dr. Kamala Shankar a renowned first lady Indian Classical Slide Guitar musician has enthralled the world through her immaculate and melodious rendition of Hindustani Classical music. Kamala has the credit to invent the Shankar Slide Guitar. She is known for her tremendous control and versatility along with the depth on her instrument. She has an exceptional and natural ability to play the ‘Gayaki Ang’ style.Her music is popularly referred as singing guitar.

Pandit Shri krishan Sharma is an Indian musician. He hails from a family of musicians. His initial training in music came from the "Guru Shishya Parampara" from his father, Pandit Gopal Krishan Sharma the foremost Vichitra Veena maestro. He has given concerts in places such as Delhi, Kolkata, Gwalior, Chennai, Jaipur, Bhopal, Maihar, Lucknow, Banaras, Indore, Pune, Agra, Goa and Shimla. He performed in America, Mauritius, Réunion and the Netherlands.

Phiroj Shyangden is an American-Indian singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter in the Nepali language. He is the founding member of the band 1974 AD and The Original Duo.

Bhupinder Singh is an Indian musician, chiefly a ghazal singer and also a Bollywood playback singer.

Kapil Srivastava is an Indian Guitarist, music author, composer, trainer from New Delhi. Kapil completed his education from DAV Public School and thereafter pursued his graduation in commerce from University of Delhi. He started his career in 1996 as a guitarist and worked for record labels including Sa Re Ga Ma etc.

Poly Varghese is a Hindustani musician and Mohan veena player, a disciple of musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. He is also an actor, poet and an activist.

Joseph Vijay is an Indian lead guitarist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He plays guitar mainly in genres such as Jazz, Rock music, and Contemporary R&B styles of music. He works on musical soundtracks for Gospel Songs, Bollywood, Sandalwood (cinema), Tollywood (Telugu), Kollywood Movies.

Rex Vijayan is an Indian composer, guitarist, singer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist from Kerala. He is the lead guitarist for the alternative Malayali rock band Avial. He started out his career as a composer in the Malayalam film industry through Kerala Cafe by giving the score to Anwar Rasheed's segment 'Bridge'.