Rilli music video 2024 | Zainub J. Khawaja X Fahad Hussayn

Rilli
I break and make, caretake my life
With laughter and tears, a  patchwork I stitch.
Daughters wanting to be seen,
Mothers never understand.
She demands it...she locks horns, in the end, herself parenting her mother!
Woman wants to play house
Man plays hide and seek.
While she adorns the house with pieces of her heart,
He doesn't have the time!
In her lonely courtyard, resentments brew!
The Strand of breathing snaps
Spirit keeps moving...I keep moving.
My journey continues on, as a dream.
I was half, now I'm whole....
I break and make, caretake my life
With laughter and tears a patchwork I stitch.

It's been a dream of mine to have videos to my songs. Not as a formula just because everyone expects it nowadays but as a visual component that brings the idea of the song to completion. Rilli has such a grand cinematic sound....I made a low budget home video for it but never released it, I think it was waiting for a grander manifestation! And oh my Lord is this video grand. Fahad has spared no expense, whether it be the costumes, talent, production team, equipment, he went all out. I remember I said to him in one of our initial meetings that I would want it to look like a music video more than a fashion film and he truly kept his promise. It's glamorous but the story line is not compromised, rather, the glamour adds to the delivery of the message. When Fahad approached me in December last year to see if I would walk in his show on my song Rilli, I never knew that this would be the open door that would lead me to one of my dreams coming true!!!! Always step out of comfort zones or golden cages I think, and you will be rewarded

CONCEIVED, PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY FAHAD HUSSAYN

FEATURING: MAMIA SHAJAFFAR | HAMZA KHWAJA | ZAINUB JAWAD

SPECIAL APPEARANCE: BINA JAWAD I SAAD SHEIKH | KHIZER DURRANI

COMPOSITION, LYRICS, VOCALS: ZAINUB J KHAWAJA

MUSIC PRODUCTION: RAKAE JAMIL & FARHAN ALI

CLARINET: USTAAD JAFFER HUSSAIN RANDHAWA

BASS GUITAR: FARHAN ALI

IST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: WAOAR AZEEM KHAN

2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: DANYAL

D.O.P: AMIR MUGHAL

EDIT: KANWAR DANIYAL

POST PRODUCTION: HAMZA SARFARAZ

ART DIRECTION: KHIZER DURRANI & MAHINA DURRANI

MAKEUP AND HAIR: QASIM LIAOAT

STYLING AND WARDROBE TEAM: BARAM KHAN NIAZI | SARAM KHAN NIAZI | AYESHA SAWATI

PERFORMANCE: THE COLONY TEAM