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Afzal Yusuf

film score composer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ4690882 ↗
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Afzal Yusuf is an Indian music composer who mainly works in the Malayalam film industry.

Career

Yusuf started his music career as a keyboard live artist.

In 2008, he debuted into the Malayalam film industry with his composition for the movie 'Chandranilekulla Vazhi'. Afzal Yusuff has composed a number of songs for films. He has also been credited for introducing many great singers from Bollywood and other industries into Mollywood.

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The public source identifies “Afzal Yusuf” as film score composer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Afzal, Yusuf and film.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Afzal, Yusuf and film providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4690882. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Afzal Yusuf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.