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Irshad Kamil

Irshad Kamil (born 5 September 1971) is an Indian poet and lyricist. His songs appear in Bollywood films including Jab We Met, Chameli, Love Aaj Kal, Rockstar, Aashiqui 2, Raanjhanaa, Highway, Tamasha, and Jab Harry Met Sejal.

 

Personal life

Kamil was born as the seventh child to his parents in Malerkotla, and belongs to a Punjabi Muslim family. He studied journalism at the Panjab University, followed by postgraduate and PhD degrees in Hindi.

 

Filmography

Sl. No.	Year	Film	Music composer	Film director	Notes
1.	2004	Chameli	Sandesh Shandilya	Sudhir Mishra,  Anant Balani
2.	2005	Shabd	Vishal-Shekhar	Leena Yadav
3.		Socha Na Tha	Sandesh Shandilya	Imtiaz Ali
4.		Karam	Vishal-Shekhar	Leena Yadav
5.		Neal 'N' Nikki	Salim Sulaiman	Arjun Sablok
6.	2006	Ahista Ahista	Himesh Reshammiya	Shivam Nair
7.		Gafla	Kartik Shah	Sameer Hanchate
8.	2007	Kaisay Kahein	Pritam	Mohit Hussein
9.		Dhol	Pritam	Priyadarshan
10.		Jab We Met	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali
11.	2008	Tulsi	Nikhil-Vinay	Ajay Kumar
12.		Bhram	Pritam	Pavan S. Kaul
13.		Thodi Life Thoda Magic	Vinay Tiwari	Anand L Rai
14.		A Wednesday!	Sanjoy Chowdhury	Neeraj Pandey
15.	2009	Kutti Chetan and Friends	Pritam	Deepak Subhash Jadhav
16.		Aa Dekhen Zara	Pritam, Gourav Dasgupta	Jehangir Surti
17.		Tera Mera Ki Rishta	Jaidev Kumar	Navaniat Singh
18.		Hum Phirr Mileinge...	Sandesh Shandilya	Manish Goel
18.		Love Aaj Kal	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali
19.		Toss	Sandesh Shandilya	Ramesh Khatkar
20.		Fast Forward	Akbar Sami	Zaigham Ali Sayed
21.		Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani	Pritam	Rajkumar Santoshi
22.		De Dana Dan	Pritam	Priyadarshan
23.	2010	Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?	Pritam	Ashwni Dhir
24.		Tum Milo Toh Sahi	Pritam	Kabir Sadanand
25.		Raajneeti	Pritam	Prakash Jha
26.		Khatta Meetha	Pritam, Shehzad Roy	Priyadarshan
27.		Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai	Pritam	Milan Luthria
28.		Help	Ashutosh Phatak	Rajeev Virani
29.		Aashayein	Pritam	Nagesh Kukunoor
30.		We Are Family	Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy	Siddharth- P. Malhotra
31.		Anjaana Anjaani	Vishal-Shekhar	Siddharth- Anand
32.		Aakrosh	Pritam	Priyadarshan
33.		Action Replayy	Pritam	Vipul Shah
34.	2011	Yamla Pagla Deewana	Sandesh Shandilya	Samir Karnik
35.		Kucch Luv Jaisaa	Pritam	Barnali Ray Shukla
36.		Mere Brother Ki Dulhan	Sohail Sen	Ali Abbas Zafar
37.		Mausam	Pritam	Pankaj Kapoor
38.		Rascals	Vishal-Shekhar	David Dhawan
39.		Rockstar	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali
40.		Desi Boyz	Pritam	Rohit Dhawan
41.	2012	Jodi Breakers	Salim-Sulaiman	Ashwini Chaudhary
42.		Cocktail	Pritam	Homi Adajania
43.		Chakravyuh	Salim-Sulaiman, Shantanu Moitra	Prakash Jha
44.		Son of Sardaar	Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid-Wajid	Ashwni Dhir
45.	2013	Kaanchi	Ismail Darbar, Salim-Sulaiman	Subhash Ghai
46.		Special 26	M. M. Keeravani, Himesh Reshammiya	Neeraj Pandey
47.		Aashiqui 2	Jeet Gannguli	Mohit Suri
48.		Raanjhanaa	A. R. Rahman	Anand L Rai
49.		Phata Poster Nikhla Hero	Pritam	Rajkumar Santoshi
50.	2014	Gunday	Sohail Sen	Ali Abbas Zafar
51.		Highway	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali
52.		Kochadaiiyaan (Dubbed version)	A. R. Rahman	Soundarya Rajinikanth
53.		Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty	Pritam	AR Murugadoss
54.		Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania	Sachin-Jigar	Shashank Khaitan
55.		Raja Natwarlal	Yuvan Shankar Raja	Kunal Deshmukh
56.		Happy New Year	Vishal-Shekhar	Farah Khan
57.	2015	I (Dubbed version)	A. R. Rahman	Shankar
58.		Prem Ratan Dhan Payo	Himesh Reshammiya	Sooraj Barjatya
59.		Guddu Rangeela	Amit Trivedi	Subhash Kapoor
60.		Tamasha	A. R. Rahman	Imtiaz Ali
61.	2016	Sultan	Vishal-Shekhar	Ali Abbas Zafar
62.		Pink	Anupam Roy	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
63.		Madaari	Vishal Bhardwaj, Sunny Bawra-Inder Bawra	Nishikant Kamat
64.	2017	Sachin: A Billion Dreams	A. R. Rahman	James Erskine
65.		Dear Maya	Sunaina Bhatnagar	Anupam Roy
66.		Raabta	Pritam, JAM8	Dinesh Vijan	Wrote three songs (two with Amitabh Bhattacharya)
67.		Mom	A. R. Rahman	Ravi Udyawar
68.		Jab Harry Met Sejal	Pritam, Diplo	Imtiaz Ali
69.		Newton	Rachita Arora	Amit V Masurkar
70.		Tiger Zinda Hai	Vishal-Shekhar	Ali Abbas Zafar
71.	2018	Sanju	A.R.Rahman	Rajkumar Hirani	Guest lyricist (Two Songs)
72.		Fanney Khan	Amit Trivedi, Tanishk	Bagchi Atul Manjrekar	Five Songs
73.		Zero	Ajay-Atul, Tanishk Bagchi	Anand L. Rai	Five Songs
74.		Laila Majnu	Niladri Kumar, Joi Barua	Sajid Ali	Nine Songs
75.	2019	Bharat	Vishal-Shekhar	Ali Abbas Zafar
76.		Kabir Singh	Amaal Mallik, Vishal Mishra, Sachet-Parampara	Sandeep Vanga	Four songs
77.	2020	Love Aaj Kal	Pritam	Imtiaz Ali	All songs
78.		Shikara - The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits	A. R. Rahman, Sandesh Shandilya, Abhay Sopori, Rohit Kulkarni	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Five Songs

                       

                       

Awards and nominations                                                   

Sl. No.	Year	Award ceremony	Category	Film	Song	Result
1.	2010	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Love Aaj Kal	"Aaj Din Chadheya"	Won
2.		Mirchi Music Awards	Album of the Year	Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai	"Nadaan Parinde"	Nominated
3.	2011	Mirchi Music Awards	Lyricist of the Year	Rockstar	"Nadaan Parinde"	Nominated
4.	2012	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Rockstar	"Nadaan Parinde"	Won
5.	2014	Mirchi Music Awards	Lyricist of the Year	Happy New Year	"Manwa Laage"	Won
6.	2015			Tamasha	"Agar Tum Saath Ho"	Nominated
7.	2015	Filmfare Awards	Best Lyricist	Tamasha	"Agar Tum Saath Ho"	Won
8.	2016		Lyricist of the Year	Sultan	"Jag Ghoomeya"	Nominated
9.	2017	Mirchi Music Awards	Lyricist of the Year	Jab Harry Met Sejal	"Hawayein"	Won
10.					"Safar"	Nominated