Legendry Pakistani singer Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi’s young daughter, Laraib Atta has bagged another achievement by securing her place in team of Tom Cruise’s latest Hollywood blockbuster movie ‘Mission: Impossible Fallout’.
Pakistan’s first youngest female visual effects artist has taken Hollywood by storm.
Establishing the success of the movie which has been released on July 25, Variety.com says, “Fallout,” is on its way to a No. 1 debut at the North American box office with an estimated $59 million.
The artist has previously worked in X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Chronicles of Narnia and Sweeney Todd. She worked for Olympics promo China, Nike Football World Cup Promo that was aired all around the world.
She has been part of the team that worked on Gravity, Godzilla, and X-Men and many more.
“HI, my name is Laraib Atta and I’m a visual effects artist and I have worked for some of the big Hollywood films,” she said while talking to BBC.
Speaking about how she got into visual art, Laraib Atta said, “Before I started the course, I had no idea what VFX is. I just knew that this is magic for films, that’s all I knew.
“The first time I watched Toy Story, it really inspired me. I was like ‘Wow, how is this done’? “I didn’t know back then that I was going to get into visual effects. But that something related to art was in me all this time and technology is what I wanted to do,” she said.
She said when she wanted to start VFX course it was hard to explain it to her parents what exactly it was.
“My parents didn’t even know what I was getting into,” she cackled. “But they absolutely supported me when I talked to my father, my mother. They told me that I have all the choices in the world! Whatever you want to do, whatever career you wish to pursue, you can definitely go for it.”
Laraib hopes to inspire other Pakistani women through her work.
“Back in the day when I started, I was the only girl in my course. I was the youngest and of course, the only Pakistani. I don’t see a lot of Pakistanis,” the now 31-year-old artist said.
“There are some women I’ve started to see now in the industry that still has 70%-80% men. (but) The goal is to get more women, young people into this and more Pakistanis.”
