Mehreen Jabbar
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Nandita Das, Mahesh Bhatt attend KaraFilm Festival in Karachi...and was yet to be released in Indian cinemas. Das said that had it not been for Kara, she would not have met Mehreen Jabbar and never would have become part of Ramchand Pakistani. She also expressed her desire to work with Pakistani... In this article: Nandita Das, Mahesh Bhatt, Karachi, Ramchand Pakistani, Mehreen Jabbar, Pakistan, and India |
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The Hindu - News | April 26, 2008
Pak movie featuring Nandita Das to be screened at Tribeca fest
...to be released in India and Pakistan soon. The movie by first-time Pakistani feature filmmaker Mehreen Jabbar stars Nandita Das as the woman whose husband and son are jailed for being "spies". Das plays Champa, the woman whose...
In this article: Nandita Das, Ramchand Pakistani, India, Tribeca Film Festival, TriBeCa, Pakistan, Islamabad, and New York
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The Times of India - Entertainment | April 23, 2008
'My work has been less visible in India'
...awards and serving as a jury member at Cannes. She has now gone on and acted in a Pakistani film Ramchand Pakistani, directed by Mehreen Jabbar, where she plays mother to a seven-year-old boy. Talking about the film, she says, "The film is...
In this article: Nandita Das, India, Naseeruddin Shah, Khuda Kay Liye, Ramchand Pakistani, Shah Rukh Khan, and Paresh Rawal
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Percept to release 'Ramchand Pakistani'
...Nandita Das among others. The film is directed by Mehreen Jabbar from Pakistan and stars besides Das Pakistani actors Rashid Farooqui, Noman Ijaz, Maria Wasti, Navaid Jabbar and Syed Fazal Hussain. Shailendra Singh, joint MD of...
In this article: Ramchand Pakistani, India, Khuda Kay Liye, Maria Wasti, and Nandita Das
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Bollywood World | October 09, 2008
Fashion to premiere at New York's South Asian film fest - Bollywood World News
...Film Festival (SAIFF) here. Nandita Das' "Firaaq", also from India, is the opening night feature of the festival and Das starrer "Ramchand Pakistani" directed by Mehreen Jabbar is the closing film. The festival runs Oct 22-28. SAIFF...
In this article: Fashion, New York, Ramchand Pakistani, Nandita Das, Toronto International Film Festival, Time Warner Cable, Raj Babbar, Madhur Bhandarkar, and Kangana Ranaut
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Ramchand Pakistani coming to India
...Pakistani Hindu family during a period of war-like tension between the two countries. Directed by young Pakistani film-maker Mehreen Jabbar, "Ramchand Pakistani" stars Pakistani actors Rashid Farooqui, Noman Ijaz, Maria Wasti, Navaid Jabbar...
In this article: Ramchand Pakistani, Nandita Das, India, Khuda Kay Liye, Maria Wasti, Pakistan, Earth, and Fire
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'Gulabi Talkies' reaps rich at Osian's fest
...here with the Kannada film's leading lady Umashree bagging the best actress award. Nandita Das-starrer "Ramchand Pakistani" by Mehreen Jabbar and Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir's path breaking "Salt of This Sea" jointly won the...
In this article: Gulabi Talkies, Govind Namdeo, Ramchand Pakistani, Annemarie Jacir, Nandita Das, and New Delhi
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The Japan Times: All Stories | October 14, 2008
Muslim-Hindu relations explored in PIFF selections
As it happens, Das plays one of the lead characters in another directorial debut at PIFF about the Hindu-Muslim divide, but Mehreen Jabbar is Pakistani, and the victims in her film, "Ramchand Pakistani," are Hindus, members of the Dalit...
In this article: Nandita Das, Pusan International Film Festival, Tahaan, Kashmir, Ramchand Pakistani, Santosh Sivan, India, The Terrorist, Islam, and War on Terror
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The Hindu : Other States News : Watch this flick for its sheer sensitivity Film review
...to the barest minimum, presenting life as it is. In a parallel track, Mehreen follows the life of a wife and mother learning to cope with the trauma of separation from her family. Nandita Das is quite at ease as the mother, Champa. The...
In this article: Ramchand Pakistani, Nandita Das, Khuda Kay Liye, Pakistan, and India
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | October 01, 2008
Ramchand Pakistani: Movie Review
...of her husband and son. With a premise as basic as this, the straightforward storytelling by director Mehreen Jabbar focuses predominantly on human bonding and the emotional evolution of the child character. The film very sharply shows...
In this article: Nandita Das, Maria Wasti, The Shawshank Redemption, Pakistan, and India
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Mehreen Jabbar (b. December 29, 1971), is a noted Pakistani film-maker and television director/producer. Mehreen is a daughter of well known media-person and businessman Javed Jabbar, she was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Mehreen grew up around Pakistan's show business. Her father, Javed Jabbar, is a filmmaker himself. He has also been running a highly successful advertising agency for about 30 years which is where Mehreen got her first exposure to the television world. After receiving a B.A. from St. Joseph's College in Karachi, Mehreen went abroad to the USA in order to study film and completed a two year program at University of California Los Angeles in 1993, with a Film, Television and Video certificate, and returned to Pakistan to direct and produced drama series/serials under the banner of TasVeer Productions, almost all of which were critically acclaimed by the Pakistani press.
Her first television play was Nivala (Morsel), which was based on a short story by Ismat Chugtai. That telecast in 1994 on a private channel NTM. Mehreen has both produced and directed several made-for-television films for numerous Television Channels in Pakistan, in addition to a number of short films which have aired in festivals worldwide.
Ramchand Pakistani is her first feature length film, to be released later this year.
Mehreen was member of the National Board of Film Censors in Karachi, a founding member of WAR (War Against Rape), the Kara Film Festival in Karachi, and has also served as a juror at the Leeds International Film Festival in 2002. She currently resides in New York City, U.S.A..
- Name At Birth:
- Mehreen Jabbar
- Birth Date:
- December 29, 1971
- Birthplace:
- Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Years Active:
- 1994 - present
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