MUSIC VIDEOS by UMAR RIAZ

MAHI MERA (BELOVED MINE) for Ali Sethi and Jamaldin (2016)

Role(s): Director, Cinematographer and Editor

Official music video for acclaimed Pakistani classical and semi-classical singer Ali Sethi and introducing folk music singer Jamaldin. Runtime 5 min 20 sec.

Shot on location in Shergarh and Hussaingarh, Punjab Province, Pakistan.

DADRA for Zeb and Haniya (2016)

Role(s): Director, Cinematographer and Editor

Official music video for renowned Pakistani musical duo Zeb and Haniya. Runtime 5 min 31 sec.

Shot on location in Lahore, Pakistan. 

DILRI LUTTI (CHEATED HEART) for Jimmy Khan feat. Rakae Jamil (2018)

Role(s): Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Inspired by the stories of five women in Pakistan supported by the Kashf Foundation, a micro-finance company dedicated to empowering women, as well as the Depilex Smile Again Foundation which focuses on aiding women who have undergone acid and burn incidents, this music video is set to an old Saraiki folk song given a contemporary rendition by musicians Jimmy Khan and Rakae Jamil. Runtime 4 min 39 sec.

DIL LAGAAYEIN (TO ENGAGE THE HEART) for Ali Sethi (2019)

Role(s): Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Official music video for Pakistani singer Ali Sethi’s ballad ‘Dil Lagaayein (To Engage the Heart')’ produced by Grammy winning producer Noah Georgeson. Shot on location in Lahore, Pakistan as well as Lahore’s surrounding areas.

ISHQ (LONGING) for Ali Sethi (2019)

Role(s): Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Official music video for popular Pakistani singer Ali Sethi’s song ‘Ishq (Longing)’ produced by Grammy winning producer Noah Georgeson and with Art Direction by Shehrbano Salahuddin. Featuring Lahore’s first contemporary dance troupe trained in the Martha Graham technique, The Sway Project, choreographed by Saad Sheikh.

DIL LAGAAYEIN (TO ENGAGE THE HEART) [PIANO MIX] for Ali Sethi (2020)

Role(s): Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Official music video for an unplugged piano-based remix of Ali Sethi’s ballad ‘Dil Lagaayein (To Engage the Heart)’ produced by Grammy winning producer Noah Georgeson. An elegiac companion piece to the original ‘Dil Lagaayein’ video. Shot on Location in the Salt Range in the Punjab region of Lahore as well as the province’s capital Lahore.