Daily Times

Laraib Atta, daughter of legendary singer Attaullah Khan Niazi Esakhelvi, once again did Pakistan proud for her work on the latest film of the hugely successful Mission Impossible franchise, according to a news channel’s report. The Tom Cruise starrer, ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ hit local theatres on Friday and is all set to conquer the box office. Atta is Pakistan’s first and youngest female visual effects artist in Hollywood.

Talking about her rise to fame at the tender age of 19 when she first made a breakthrough in 2006 during an interview with BBC, she said, ““Before I started the course I had no idea what VFX is. It’s just I knew this that it is magic for films.”

Laraib Atta did VFX for the latest installment of the hugely successful ‘Mission Impossible’ franchise

“The first time I watched Toy Story that really inspired me, I was like wow how is this done… I did not know back then that I would get into visual effects but it was in me all this time that something related to art and technology is what I wanted to do,” she said.

“Back then when I started I was the only girl in the course and the youngest and of course the only Pakistani”, Laraib said, “The goal is to get more women, young people into this, and more Pakistanis,” Laraib aspires.

The young girls’s filmography feats include working on films like X-Men: Days of Future Past, Godzilla, Gravity, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Trader and Prince Caspian, 10, 000 BC and Johnny Depp’s Sweeney Todd.

Published in Daily Times, July 29^th 2018.