FLORIDA: Pakistan’s foremost and the youngest female visual effects artist Laraib, the daughter of singer Attaullah Khan Niazi Esakhelvi, has successfully acknowledged her talent in Hollywood.

According to the details, she has worked on chartbuster Hollywood flicks including the new Mission: Impossible film entitled Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

The artist, who started off her career at the age of 19 back in 2006, muses, “Before I started the course I had no idea what VFX is. It’s just I knew this that it is magic for films.”

Deliberating about her exposures, she went on to say, “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.”

Maintaining that, she has been through a tough time making her family realized what she wants to do. Eventually, her family supported her. “Back then when I started I was the only girl in the course and the youngest and of course the only Pakistani,” said she.

Also, Laraib desires to motivate other Pakistani women too, “The goal is to get more women, young people into this, and more Pakistanis.”

Laraib’s filmography incorporates blockbusters endeavors such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, Godzilla, Gravity, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Prince Caspian, 10, 000 BC and Johnny Depp’s Sweeney Todd. (Aiman Inam)

PS: A number of Pakistanis, particularly those hailing from the Port City, are pursuing quite successful careers in the USA. But unfortunately, they are less known in their own country. For instance, karachiite Kumail Ninjani stars in the Silicon Valley, Faran Tahir plays a crucial role in ABC’s hit thriller Scandal; Another Karachiite Dilshad (who appeared in the movie Thirty Minutes or Less and CSI Miami) plays the role of Rebecca Logan in ABC’s Greek…