Saqib Malik

Early life

Born in 1995, Saqib grew up in Narowal, Pakistan where he received his earlier education. Later he moved siranwali Sialkot to study when saqib in 5th class and then govt islamia high school siranwali. He is also very good boy. Saqib is son of the Muhammad Younas. He has 4, sister and 3 brother Ameer and Ramish Ali At the completion of his intermediate F.SC, he shifted to Lahore for higher study in COMSATS Lahore Campus in BSCS. He didn't stop him from achieving his goal of becoming a networking engg with an advertisement agency R-Lintas (now Lowe and Rauf) on a normal nine-to-five basis.

Career

Working for almost seven years in the advertisement business, he took upon direction as a freelance director making commercials for various brands. 1990s brought a revival in the Pakistani music industry where young stars were emerging almost always in dire need of exposure. Saqib chose to work with Asim Reza on various projects that led them into directing music videos for these very artists. As a director duo, their first break came with the video for the hit single Mr Fraudiyey by the band Awaz. The video would later root the careers of the band Awaz, Aminah Haq and Tariq Amin. Saqib later worked for three years with Asim Reza after they decided to split and go their separate ways.

But while it seemed the nation was headed towards a new revolution in music and media in general, Saqib clung on to making advertisement commercials rather than making more music videos. His inhibitions led him to believe that his art hadn't been properly furnished. His work with Asim Reza was mostly shadowed by the powerful charisma that Asim had and he lacked. He went his way making commercials for the sake of improving his stronghold over these very inhibitions and proving to himself that he excelled at what he did. He started his own production company PAGE 33 Productions,

In 2001, Saqib served an experimental new-wave band named Rushk to come up with a music video for their song Behti Naar. The video depicted various taboos of the Pakistani culture like homosexual relationships, BDSM, etc., and portrayed them in a mild manner. The video became a cult classic, albeit the censor board ruled against the airing of the video on music channels. The controversy surrounding the video gave his career a further boost.

His recent endeavours included videos for the band Fuzon's song Khamaaj which stood neck-to-neck with Asim Reza's video for Mahi Ve sung by Faakhir Mehmood at the nominations for the Best Music Video at the 2004 Lux Style Awards (LSA) held in 2005. His video for Ali Azmat's song Na Re Na gained him an award at the LSA.

After the success of Khamaaj, Fuzon selected Saqib on their next big project – a video featuring Urmila Matondkar from Bollywood beyond the border. Saqib worked with Pralad Kakar (a director from India) on the video and was since then attributed with being the first music video director to have worked with an Indian star. His next such venture would be a video for Salman Ahmad's song Ghoom Taana featuring Nandita Das, another Bollywood star. Ghoom Taana was written by both Saqib Malik and Asim Reza.

Malik's film debut is in pre-production since 2005. Reportedly, Shaan, Ali Zafar, Samina Peerzada, Tooba Siddiqui and Nadeem were the original cast of the film. In 2008, Malik has stated that he is making changes in the script, actors and producers of the film. The script is written by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat and the soundtrack is composed by Shanee (a new composer in Pakistan). Malik has confirmed, "The music will be a great taste for the audience, it would most determingly leave the audience singing for years, I'm really looking forward to it. Title song, item numbers, romance songs, action songs and a full-thriller." He also said in an interview with Dawn news, "Ajnabee Shehr Mein is a commercial Urdu film with lots of songs and dances to cater to the mass appeal. It's something I am extremely excited about. The film is a suspense thriller set in Karachi, a city which is perfectly suited for this theme because it has a dark edge of mystery and uncertainty to it." The film is still under production as of 2013.

In 2012, Malik directed Reema Khan's theme song for her film Love Mein Gum. In March 2013, he is set to direct an item song for Humayun Saeed's new film Main Hun Shahid Afridi which will be filmed in Karachi and star the actresses Mahnoor Baloch and Mathira.