Mehreen Jabbar

Mehreen Jabbar
Jabbar at the shoot of Ramchand Pakistani
Born	(1971-12-29) 29 December 1971 (age 45) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Occupation	Television producer, television director, film director
Years active	1994 – present
Parent(s)	Javed Jabbar (father)
Website	Official website

Mehreen Jabbar (Urdu: م‍ﮩ‍رين جبار ) (b. 29 December 1971), is a Pakistani film and television director and producer based in New York City. She is daughter of the media-person Javed Jabbar.

Mehreen grew up around Pakistan's show business. Her father, Javed Jabbar has been a filmmaker, and a very successful ad man apart from a senator and a cabinet minister. After receiving a BA from St. Joseph's College in Karachi, Mehreen went to the US to study film and completed a two-year program at University of California Los Angeles in 1993, with a Film, Television and Video certificate. She returned to Pakistan, and directed and produced drama series/serials under the banner of TasVeer Productions, almost all of which were critically acclaimed by the Pakistani press.

Jabbar directed her first play in 1994, called Nivala, which was an adaptation of Ismat Chughtai's short story. However, the play never made it to the television screens, having been refused by state-run television channel PTV on the grounds that it was an Indian writer's work. It was a setback for Mehreen but she continued working for television and since then has made several award winning telefilms and TV series for several TV channels in Pakistan, in addition to a number of short films which have aired in festivals worldwide.

Mehreen has been a member of the Central 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. Recently she was the Artistic Director and Directing Mentor at the Maisha Film Lab in Uganda, a non-profit film lab founded by director Mira Nair. Mehreen currently resides in New York City .