Mirchi Music Award for Upcoming Music Composer of The Year  The Mirchi Music Award for Upcoming Music Composer of The Year is given yearly by Radio Mirchi as a part of its annual Mirchi Music Awards for Hindi films, to recognise an upcoming music director who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song. The award ceremony was started in 2008 to honour the best of Hindi film music. Dhruv Ghanekar was the winner in that award ceremony for the film "Drona". As of the 2018 ceremony, Niladri Kumar is the most recent winner in this category for the song "Aahista" from the film "Laila Majnu". In the following table, the years are listed as per presenter's convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in India. The ceremonies are always held the following year.