Kausar Munir is a Bollywood lyricist. She started her career in television and her first song was for the TV serial “Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin”. When the scriptwriter of the serial, Vijay Krishna Acharya, was directing the film “Tashan” (2008), he asked her to write a song for the film. Her first song “Falak Tak” got her attention but it wan’t until 2012 that her career took off.

Kausar Munir not only wrote four songs for “Ishaqzaade” (2012), she also coined the word “Ishaqzaade”. Director Habib Faisal liked the word so much, he decided to use it as the movie’s title. She also wrote lyrics for other films in 2012, including Ek Tha Tiger and Ishq In Paris. She has also been appreciated for her work as language consultant for the film English Vinglish.