Althea Kaushal is also a well-known Indian screenwriter, He was born on January 1, 1970, in Mumbai, India. Kaushal is primarily associated with Bollywood. Married to a pilot, Althea is a former flight attendant, who tried her hand at multiple things such as ad filmmaking, directing documentaries, and teaching before she developed the script of the 2011 action drama Game.

Althea was then approached by Farah Khan to write the script of Happy New Year, which went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies of the year and its script was also added to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Post the success of Happy New Year (2014), Althea wrote the scripts of the 2017 movies Noor and 3 Storeys.