Manek Premchand

Manek Premchand is an Indian writer and historian of film music at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, who has written several books pertaining to the history of Indian film music and biographies of musicians. He has hosted shows on WorldSpace Satellite Radio and been a consultant with Saregama.

In 2003 he completed his first book, Yesterday's Melodies, Today's Memories, with the aim of giving songwriters, singers and composers credit. It was followed by Musical Moments from Hindi Films (2006). In 2010 he became part of the Mohammed Rafi Academy's governing body and two years later produced Romancing the Song (2012). He contributed an essay on Shivkumar Sharma in Shiv Kumar Sharma: The Man and His Music (2014), and released a biography of Talat Mahmood the following year. In Hitting the Right Notes (2016) he focusses on songwriters and composers, the difference the music made and the trends they produced. He devoted a chapter to Mubarak Begum in The Hindi Music Jukebox: Exploring Unforgettable Songs (2018), and has published a biography of Hemant Kumar in 2020.