
Mehreen Jabbar
Directing
Biography
Mehreen is a Pakistani American director who’s a 20 year veteran of the industry, with a prolific career as Director/Producer of gritty, hard hitting films and TV series for Pakistan and South Asia which have earned her both critical and commercial success. Mehreen has also made a number of narrative shorts that have been screened internationally in film festivals as well as on TV. Her award winning short films and TV series include ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel”, “Beauty Parlor”, “Doraha” amongst others. In 2008 Mehreen directed her debut feature film titled ‘Ramchand Pakistani’ for which she was awarded the ‘Global Film Initiative Grant’. The film premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and continued a successful festival and theatrical run. The film was awarded the ‘Fipresci Prize’ by the ‘International Federation of Film Critics’, the ‘Audience Award’ at the ‘Fribourg Film Festival’, Switzerland and an ‘Honorable Mention’ by the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray Award at the London Film Festival. In 2010 Mehreen was invited to screen her film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has received numerous awards for her directorial work. Mehreen has been a member of the National Board of Film Censors in Karachi and a founding member of the KaraFilm Festival in Karachi, Pakistan and WAR (War Against Rape). She was invited to serve as a juror at the Leeds International Film Festival in 2002, at the HUM TeleFilm Awards in 2012 and at the ARY Film Awards in 2015. She was also the Artistic Director at the Maisha Film Lab in Uganda in 2011 which is a nonprofit training lab founded by director Mira Nair. Mehreen lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her second feature film ‘Dobara Phir Se’ which was shot in both New York and Karachi is set for a worldwide theatrical release end of November, 2016.
Known For

The Lux Style Awards is the largest award ceremony held annually in Pakistan since 2002. The awards celebrate "style" in the Pakistani entertainment industry, and it is the oldest event dedicated to cinema, television, fashion, music and film industry in Pakistan.
Lux Style Awards

With compassion in her heart and courage in her decision. She heals lives in the hospital and fights expectations at home. Starring Kubra Khan and Shuja Asad. Dr. Bahu, where dreams meet responsibility.
Doctor Bahu

3 stories of Pakistani's family living in New York.
Jackson Heights

Umer is doing his graduation and is in love with his fellow university mate Sara, who belongs to a sound family and when she tells her parents about Umer's proposal, they immediately refuse to give permission.
Doraha

Armaan and Saadi are inseparable best friends who love each other to death like brothers. Aiman comes from America and Armaan falls in love with her. However Saadi begins to like Aiman as well and Aiman begins to like Saadi as well, causing Armaan to corner his feelings for her and this causes him to dislike his own mother who has been against Aiman and has been very cunning, which was coming in front of his eyes finally.
Dil Kiya Karay

An intense and inspirational story of a resilient woman who stands against her powerful boss. Her unwavering integrity and refusal to submit lead to a fight for dignity.
Case No. 9

Story revolves around the life of a young woman, who is trying to resolve tensions between her father, who runs a restaurant in city of Karachi called Alfonso, and mother, an artist residing in Florida. With the help of friends, she takes on the task of saving her family restaurant from going into ruins, and her family from breaking into pieces.
Coke Kahani

Ek Jhoothi Love Story is an Urdu language Zindagi Original series starring Bilal Abbas Khan and Madiha Imam and written by Umera Ahmed. In their quest to find a perfect life partner, Salma and Sohail, create fake profiles with pseudonyms Natalia and Nofil.
Ek Jhoothi Love Story

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Aks

After spending years hiding their feelings for each other, Danish and Zinia’s bond is shattered when family pressure forces Danish into a sudden marriage with the lively and innocent Mahi. What begins as a compromise soon turns into a tangled web of love, jealousy, heartbreak, and secrets, as all three struggle between what their hearts want and what life demands from them.
Malaal

Zara Hidayatullah and Maleeha Sami were two close friends for a span of seven years. Zara belongs to a lower-middle-class family while Maleeha comes from an upper class household. Yet their class difference did not threaten their unbreakable bond. Maleeha had been there for her friend through many hardships, but she never really felt the extent of anguish which plagued Zara's life.
Daam

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Jurm

Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.
Ramchand Pakistani

Two estranged sisters meet at their family home after 20 years and end up unearthing many skeletons in their closet.
Lala Begum

When the lazy and careless Dino is fired, he calls his grandmother Dadi to claim his deceased parents' wealth. Dadi knowing Dino well tells him that he will only get the money once he is married. After being rejected by all his ex-girlfriends, Dino decides to hire an actress called Noor to play his wife while Dadi is visiting. Dadi immediately figures this out and hires Noor herself to teach Dino a lesson.
Dino Ki Dulhaniya

A divorced Pakistani woman visits an upscale Connecticut suburb in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged ex-mother-law.
Dobara Phir Se

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Dil Mera Dhadkan Teri

This is the story of two brothers whose wives can't stand each other. When the younger brother and his wife has to move into the family house where the older brother and his wife have been living, the husbands and the children have to band together to make sure that World War III does not erupt.
Hum Chale Aaye

The story revolves around three women and a transvestite working in a beauty salon, whose interaction with one another engenders facets of personality and suppressed desires in each one hitherto unknown to them.
Beauty Parlor
A newly married couple moves in next door to a mysterious, dysfunctional couple.