Lyari Notes is a 2016 documentary that was directed by Maheen Zia and Miriam Chandy Menacherry.

[3][4] 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.

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".