Lyari Notes

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Lyari Notes
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Directed by Maheen Zia
Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Screenplay byMiriam Chandy Menacherry
Produced byIikka Vehkalahti
CinematographyMaheen Zia
Edited byMonisha Baldawa
Sankalp Meshram
Music byHamza Jafri
Production
company
Filament Pictures

Lyari Notes is a 2016 documentary that was directed by Maheen Zia and Miriam Chandy Menacherry. [1] [2] The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam after being pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket in 2015, and follows a young girl and her friends as they use music as a form of escape and expression. [3] [4]

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Synopsis

The film follows four young girls that routinely travel from Lyari to a musical school in another area. The travel is long and dangerous, plus the girls' families are not always supportive of their desire to learn music as they feel that it violates Islamic law. Lyari Notes follows the girls over a three-year period.

Production

Chandy came up with the idea for the documentary after listening to music created by "young, underground Pakistani musicians" and thinking that it could make a good basis for a film. [5] Zia was brought into the film as Chandy felt that "Having a filmmaker based in Karachi to capture every development as it happened, and also providing an insider's perspective, was critical to the film's nuanced narrative". [5] The two had worked together on a prior project of Chandy's and together set on filming the documentary. While filming the two faced difficulties due to the fact that they were filming in both India and Pakistan, two nations not on friendly terms with one another. [6] They also experienced issues with funding, which was alleviated via a successful crowdsourcing campaign. [7]

Zia served as Lyari Notes's film director and initially Chandy intended to travel with Zia to Pakistan to film the young girls, but found that this could pose a danger to both Zia and their documentary subjects, as she is Indian. [8] She instead chose to remain in India and worked on the documentary's post production work, a move that she felt made her more objective. [5]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Quietly, Two Women Film Underground Pakistani Music". The New Indian Express. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Lyari Notes: Uniting Pakistan and India, against all odds". The News. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lyari Notes: Singing songs of change". Hindustan Times. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
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