Full Name Yasir Jaswal Name Yasir Jaswal Siblings Uzair Jaswal Notable work Jalaibee Movies Jalaibee | Other names Yasir M Jaswal Residence Islamabad, Pakistan Nationality Pakistani Role Singer | |
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Born March 11, 1983 (age 41) ( 1983-03-11 ) Lahore, Punjab Occupation Film and music director, writer, singer, photographer Known for 'Call' band (lead vocalist) Relatives Umair Jaswal (brother)
Uzair Jaswal (brother) Albums Jalaibee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Awards Lux Style Award for Best Music Video Director Similar People Uzair Jaswal, Wiqar Ali Khan, Ali Safina, Adnan Jaffar, Zhalay Sarhadi | ||
Haider rifaat interviews yasir jaswal 2017
Yasir M Jaswal is a Pakistani singer, writer, filmmaker, and award-winning music director. He was the lead singer for his band Irtaash. He was also the lead vocalist for the band Call. He directed several award-winning music videos and in 2015 he made his feature film debut with Jalaibee. His younger brothers Umair and Uzair Jaswal are also singers and actors. He won Lux Style Award in 2014 for directing music video of Uzair's single Bolay. He is also won best music video director at the Hum Award in 2016 for the song Sajna by his brother Uzair Jaswal. His most recent venture has been a burger joint in Islamabad by the name of Jessie's which he has opened along with his brothers and friend.
Contents
- Haider rifaat interviews yasir jaswal 2017
- Early life
- Music career
- Directing career
- Personal life
- Albums
- Singles
- As writer or composer
- Film
- Music videos as director
- References
Early life
Jaswal was born on 11 March 1983 in Lahore, Punjab, and currently lives in Islamabad.
Music career
Jaswal started his career as a musician in around 2003, later he joined the Islamabad-based rock band Irtaash. The band was founded in November 2001 and released its first album Kala Safaid Aasman consisting of eleven rock songs in May 2011, produced by Sarmad Abdul Ghafoor at the SnM Studios. He left the band in October 2011.
In August 2012, Yasir released his first solo song Khizaan, which he produced along with Ghafoor and recorded at the SnM Studios in Islamabad.
After leaving Irtaash, he joined Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan's band Call as a lead vocalist in June 2013, a year after the former lead vocalist Junaid Khan left the band. Before that, Jaswal and Zulfiqar, known as Xulfi had already worked together once in the band Entity Paradigm.
In 2013, he wrote and composed his younger brother Uzair Jaswal's single Bolay.
Directing career
Jaswal founded a music and film production company, Jaswal Films, and has directed several music videos, especially for Uzair.
In May 2010, Jaswal directed Uzair Jaswal's Mother's Day special song Maa, produced by Khurram Waqar at MindWorks Media. In November 2010, he directed Uzair's song Tere Bin.
In December 2011, Jaswal directed Shaheryar Mirza's Aakhri Baar for which he was nominated for the 2014 Lux Style Award for Best Music Video Director.
In June 2012, Yasir directed a music video of Zoraiz Riaz's song Janay Anjanay (Chupke Se Aye). In August 2012, he directed a music video of Omer Nadeem's single Kin Raaston Pe.
In 2013, Yasir directed Uzair's single Bolay, for which he won 2014 Lux Style Award for Best Music Video Director. He was also nominated for the 2014 Hum Award for Best Music Video.
In June 2014, Farhan Saeed's single Roiyaan was released, and the video was directed by Jaswal, for which he was nominated for the 2015 Hum Award for Best Music Video. He is also nominated for the upcoming 2015 Lux Style Award for Best Music Video Director.
Jaswal made his feature film directorial debut with the action crime Jalaibee based on his own script, starring Danish Taimoor, Ali Safina, Uzair Jaswal, and Wiqar Ali Khan. He shot the film with Arri Alexa HD, marking it the first Pakistani film shot with the camera. The film was released domestically and in a few other countries on 20 March 2015 by ARY Films. It grossed ₨10.5 crore with a budget of ₨10 crore.
In 2015, Yasir directed Uzair's music video of song Sajna, which featured Uzair, Armeena Khan, and Osman Khalid Butt. The video was set in the 1980s.
Personal life
Jaswal is the elder brother of Umair Jaswal, who is also a singer, actor and lead vocalist of the band Qayaas, and Uzair Jaswal, also a singer, music composer and actor. Yasir is married and has 2 sons named Nael Jaswal and Ryan Jaswal. and brother uzair jaswal has daughter name minahil uzair and uzair married with neha rajpoot.
Yasir owned a classic 1973 Ford Mustang.