Irshad Kamil

Irshad Kamil
Irshad Kamil
	Kamil at the Delhi Poetry Festival in 2013
Born	5 September 1971 (age 52); Malerkotla, Punjab, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Lyricist, poet
Years active	2004–present
Website	www.irshadkamil.com

Dr. Irshad Kamil (born 5 September 1971) is an Indian poet and lyricist.^[1] His songs appear in Bollywood films including 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.

Dr. 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]

Personal life

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	One song	^[8]
2006	Ahista Ahista	Himesh Reshammiya	Shivam Nair	One of the lyricists	^[9]
2006	Gafla	Kartik Shah	Sameer Hanchate
2007	Dhol	Pritam	Priyadarshan	Five songs
2007	Jab We Met	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali	Five songs	^[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	One of the lyricists	^[21]
	De Dana Dan		Priyadarshan	One song	^[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	Five 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	Pritam	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	One of the lyricists	^[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)	A. R. Rahman	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	Nine Songs
2019	Kabir Singh	Amaal Mallik Vishal Mishra Sachet–Parampara	Sandeep Vanga	Four songs
2020	Love Aaj Kal	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali
2020	Shikara	Sandesh Shandilya	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Five Songs
2021	Tadap	Pritam	Milan Luthria		^[93]
2021	Atrangi Re	A. R. Rahman	Aanand L. Rai		^[94]
2022	Raksha Bandhan	Himesh Reshammiya	Aanand L. Rai
2022	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	Pritam	Rajkumar Hirani	Two songs
2024	Woh Bhi Din The	Joi Barua	Sajid Ali	Eight songs
	Bade Miyan Chote Miyan	Vishal Mishra	Ali Abbas Zafar
	Amar Singh Chamkila	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali
	Metro In Dino †	Pritam	Anurag Basu

Awards and nominations

Year	Award ceremony	Category	Film	Song	Result	Note
2010	Mirchi Music Awards	Album of the Year	Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai	-	Nominated	^[95]
2011		Lyricist of the Year	Rockstar	"Nadaan Parinde"	Nominated	^[96]^[97]
		Listeners' Choice Album of the Year		-	Won
		Album of the Year		-	Won
2012			Cocktail	-	Nominated	^[98]
2013			Aashiqui 2	-	Won	^[99]
2014			Gunday	-	Nominated	^[100]^[101]
2014		Lyricist of the Year	Happy New Year	"Manwa Laage"	Won	^[100]^[101]
2015		Lyricist of the Year	Tamasha	"Agar Tum Saath Ho"	Nominated	^[102]
2015	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Tamasha	"Agar Tum Saath Ho"	Won
2016	Mirchi Music Awards	Album of the Year	Sultan	-	Nominated	^[103]
2016		Lyricist of the Year	Sultan	"Jag Ghoomeya"	Nominated	^[103]
2017		Album of the Year	Raabta	-	Nominated	^[104]^[105]
			Tiger Zinda Hai	-	Nominated
			Jab Harry Met Sejal	-	Won
		Lyricist of the Year		"Hawayein"	Won
		Lyricist of the Year		"Safar"	Nominated
2019	Bazm-E-Urdu Dubai's Mehfil-E-Urdu	Kaifi Azmi Award for Urdu Lyricist	-		Won	^[106]^[107]^[108]^[109]
2012	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Rockstar	"Nadaan Parinde"	Won	^[110]
2010	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Love Aaj Kal	"Aaj Din Chadheya"	Won	^[111]

References

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

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