Irshad Kamil

Irshad Kamil
Kamil at the Delhi Poetry Festival in 2013
Born	(1971-09-05) 5 September 1971 (age 54) Malerkotla, Punjab, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Lyricist, poet
Years active	2004–present
Website	www.irshadkamil.com

Irshad Kamil (born 5 September 1971) is an Indian poet and lyricist. ^[1] His songs appeared in Bollywood films including Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai , Jab We Met , Chameli , Love Aaj Kal , Rockstar , Laila Majnu , Aashiqui 2 , Raanjhanaa , Highway , Tamasha , Jab Harry Met Sejal , Kabir Singh , Dunki and Love Aaj Kal .

Irshad has been nominated and won numerous prestigious awards for his lyrics in song-writing. He has won dozens of awards of Best Lyricist, the Film Fare Award, IIFA and Zee Cine Awards to name a few. ^[2]

Early life and education

Kamil was born as the seventh child to his parents in Malerkotla, and belongs to a Punjabi Muslim family. ^[3]

He studied journalism at the Panjab University, followed by postgraduate and PhD degrees in Hindi. ^[3]

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Composer(s)	Director	Notes	Ref.
2004	Chameli	Sandesh Shandilya	Sudhir Mishra Anant Balani	One of the lyricists	[4]
2005	Shabd	Vishal–Shekhar	Leena Yadav		[5]
	Socha Na Tha	Sandesh Shandilya	Imtiaz Ali	Five songs	[6]
	Karam	Vishal–Shekhar	Leena Yadav	One song	[7]
	Neal 'N' Nikki	Salim–Sulaiman	Arjun Sablok		[8]
2006	Ahista Ahista	Himesh Reshammiya	Shivam Nair	One of the lyricists	[9]
	Gafla	Kartik Shah	Sameer Hanchate
2007	Dhol	Pritam	Priyadarshan	Five songs
	Jab We Met		Imtiaz Ali		[10]
2008	Tulsi	Nikhil-Vinay	Ajay Kumar
	Bhram	Pritam	Pavan S. Kaul	One of the lyricists	[11] [12]
	Thodi Life Thoda Magic	Vinay Tiwari	Anand L Rai	Three songs	[13]
	A Wednesday!	Sanjoy Chowdhury	Neeraj Pandey	One of the lyricists	[14]
2009	Aa Dekhen Zara	Pritam	Jehangir Surti	Three songs	[15] [16]
	Tera Mera Ki Rishta	Jaidev Kumar	Navaniat Singh	One of the lyricists	[17]
	Love Aaj Kal	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali		[18] [19]
	Toss	Sandesh Shandilya	Ramesh Khatkar	One of the lyricists	[20]
	Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani	Pritam	Rajkumar Santoshi		[21]
	De Dana Dan		Priyadarshan	Three songs	[22]
2010	Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?		Ashwni Dhir	One song	[23]
	Tum Milo Toh Sahi	Sandesh Shandilya	Kabir Sadanand		[24]
	Raajneeti	Pritam	Prakash Jha	One song	[25]
	Khatta Meetha		Priyadarshan	Three songs (one along with U. R. L.)	[26]
	Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai		Milan Luthria	Six songs	[27]
	Help	Ashutosh Phatak	Rajeev Virani
	Aashayein	Pritam	Nagesh Kukunoor	One song	[28] [29]
	We Are Family	Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy	Siddharth P. Malhotra	One of the lyricists	[30] [31]
	Anjaana Anjaani	Vishal–Shekhar	Siddharth Anand	One song (Along with Kausar Munir)	[32] [33]
	Aakrosh	Pritam	Priyadarshan		[34]
	Action Replayy		Vipul Shah		[35] [36]
2011	Yamla Pagla Deewana	Sandesh Shandilya	Samir Karnik	One song	[37]
	Kucch Luv Jaisaa	Pritam	Barnali Ray Shukla		[38]
	Mere Brother Ki Dulhan	Sohail Sen	Ali Abbas Zafar		[39] [40]
	Mausam	Pritam	Pankaj Kapoor		[41] [42]
	Rascals	Vishal–Shekhar	David Dhawan		[43] [44] [45]
	Rockstar	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali		[46] [47]
	Desi Boyz	Pritam	Rohit Dhawan	Two songs	[48]
2012	Jodi Breakers	Salim–Sulaiman	Ashwini Chaudhary	One of the lyricists	[49]
	Cocktail	Pritam Yo Yo Honey Singh	Homi Adajania	Eight songs	[50] [51]
	Chakravyuh	Salim–Sulaiman Shantanu Moitra	Prakash Jha	One of the lyricists	[52] [53] [54]
	Son of Sardaar	Himesh Reshammiya Sajid–Wajid	Ashwni Dhir		[55] [56]
2013	Special 26	M. M. Keeravani	Neeraj Pandey	Eight songs	[57] [58]
	Aashiqui 2	Jeet Gannguli	Mohit Suri	Six songs	[59]
	Raanjhanaa	A. R. Rahman	Anand L Rai		[60] [61]
	Phata Poster Nikhla Hero	Pritam	Rajkumar Santoshi	One of the lyricists	[62]
2014	Gunday	Sohail Sen	Ali Abbas Zafar	Eight songs	[63]
	Highway	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali	Seven songs	[64]
	Kochadaiiyaan (Dubbed version)		Soundarya Rajinikanth	Five songs	[65]
	Kaanchi	Ismail Darbar Salim–Sulaiman	Subhash Ghai		[66]
	Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty	Pritam	AR Murugadoss	Five songs	[67]
	Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania	Sachin–Jigar	Shashank Khaitan	Two songs	[68] [69]
	Raja Natwarlal	Yuvan Shankar Raja	Kunal Deshmukh		[70]
	Happy New Year	Vishal–Shekhar	Farah Khan		[71]
2015	I (Dubbed version)	A. R. Rahman	Shankar		[72]
	Prem Ratan Dhan Payo	Himesh Reshammiya	Sooraj Barjatya		[73]
	Guddu Rangeela	Amit Trivedi	Subhash Kapoor		[74] [75]
	Tamasha	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali		[76]
2016	Sultan	Vishal–Shekhar	Ali Abbas Zafar		[77]
	Pink	Anupam Roy	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	One song	[78]
	Madaari	Vishal Bhardwaj Sunny Bawra-Inder Bawra	Nishikant Kamat		[79] [80]
2017	Sachin: A Billion Dreams	A. R. Rahman	James Erskine		[81] [82]
	Dear Maya	Anupam Roy SandMan	Sunaina Bhatnagar		[83] [84]
	Raabta	Pritam JAM8	Dinesh Vijan	Wrote three songs (Two with Amitabh Bhattacharya)	[85]
	Mom	A. R. Rahman	Ravi Udyawar	All songs (Two with Rianjali)	[86] [87] [88]
	Jab Harry Met Sejal	Pritam, Diplo	Imtiaz Ali		[89] [90]
	Newton	Rachita Arora	Amit V Masurkar	Two songs
	Tiger Zinda Hai	Vishal–Shekhar	Ali Abbas Zafar
2018	Sanju	A. R. Rahman	Rajkumar Hirani	Guest lyricist; Two Songs	[91]
	Fanney Khan	Amit Trivedi Tanishk Bagchi	Atul Manjrekar	Five Songs	[92]
	Rajma Chawal	Hitesh Sonik	Leena Yadav
	Zero	Ajay-Atul Tanishk Bagchi	Anand L. Rai
	Laila Majnu	Niladri Kumar Joi Barua	Sajid Ali	Nine Songs
2019	Bharat	Vishal–Shekhar	Ali Abbas Zafar
	Kabir Singh	Amaal Mallik Vishal Mishra Sachet–Parampara	Sandeep Vanga	Four songs
2020	Love Aaj Kal	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali
	Shikara	Sandesh Shandilya	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Five Songs
2021	Tadap	Pritam	Milan Luthria		[93]
	AtrangiRe	A. R. Rahman	Aanand L. Rai		[94]
2022	Raksha Bandhan	Himesh Reshammiya
	Freddy	Pritam	Shashanka Ghosh
2023	Bholaa	Ravi Basrur	Ajay Devgn
	Jawan	Anirudh Ravichander	Atlee	Guest lyricist; Two songs (one with Wasim Balrevi)
	Tiger 3	Pritam	Maneesh Sharma	One song
	Dunki		Rajkumar Hirani	Two songs
2024	Woh Bhi Din The	Joi Barua	Sajid Ali	Eight songs
	Bade Miyan Chote Miyan	Vishal Mishra	Ali Abbas Zafar	Five songs
	Amar Singh Chamkila	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali
	Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video	White Noise Collectives	Raaj Shaandilyaa
	Baby John	Thaman S	Kalees
2025	Sky Force	Tanishk Bagchi	Sandeep Kewlani and Abhishek Anil Kapur	Two songs
	Chhaava	A. R. Rahman	Laxman Utekar	Five songs	[95]
	Kesari Chapter 2	Shashwat Sachdev, Kanishk Seth-Kavita Seth	Karan Singh Tyagi
	Ground Zero	Rohan-Rohan	Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar	One song
	Bhool Chuk Maaf	Tanishk Bagchi	Karan Sharma	Five songs
	Saiyaara	Tanishk Bagchi Faheem Abdullah Arslan Nizami Sachet-Parampara	Mohit Suri	Three songs (One with Prashant Pandey)
	Tehran	Tanishk Bagchi	Arun Gopalan

Awards and nominations

Year	Award ceremony	Category	Film	Song	Result	Note
2010	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Love Aaj Kal	"Aaj Din Chadheya"	Won	[96]
2010	Mirchi Music Awards	Album of the Year	Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai	-	Nominated	[97]
2011		Lyricist of the Year	Rockstar	"Nadaan Parinde"	Nominated	[98] [99]
		Listeners' Choice Album of the Year		-	Won
		Album of the Year		-
2012			Cocktail	-	Nominated	[100]
2013			Aashiqui 2	-	Won	[101]
2014			Gunday	-	Nominated	[102] [103]
		Lyricist of the Year	Happy New Year	"Manwa Laage"	Won
2015			Tamasha	"Agar Tum Saath Ho"	Nominated	[104]
2015	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist			Won
2016	Mirchi Music Awards	Album of the Year	Sultan	-	Nominated	[105]
		Lyricist of the Year		"Jag Ghoomeya"
2017		Album of the Year	Raabta	-	Nominated	[106] [107]
			Tiger Zinda Hai	-
			Jab Harry Met Sejal	-	Won
		Lyricist of the Year		"Hawayein"
				"Safar"	Nominated
2019	Bazm-E-Urdu Dubai's Mehfil-E-Urdu	Kaifi Azmi Award for Urdu Lyricist	-		Won	[108] [109] [110] [111]
2012	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Rockstar	"Nadaan Parinde"	Won	[112]

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• http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/09/meet-lyricist-irshad-kamil.htm

External links

• Irshad Kamil's official website
• Irshad Kamil's All Lyrics