University of Central Punjab

COURSE TITLE: PAKISTAN

STUDIES

Assignment#0
1

Topic: Essay on Favorite

Personality

Submitted to:

Ma’am Farzana Rizvi

Submitted by:

Atia Hameed

L1F19BSAF0177

Dated as:
 16th Nov, 2021

ATIF ASLAM

Atif Aslam is a Pakistani playback singer, song-writer,

composer and an actor. Best known for his hit songs in the
Pakistani and Indian film industries. He was born in
Wazirabad and educated in Lahore and Rawalpindi. He is
widely recognized in South Asia and has given several hit
songs such as Aadat, Woh lamhe, Tere bin, Pehli nazar
mein, Tera hone laga hoon, Tu jaane na and Meri kahani. He
is best known for his powerful vocal belting technique.

He predominantly sings in Urdu and often times in Hindi, but has also sung in Punjabi, Bengali
and Pashto. With a number of successful chart-topping songs, he is often considered one of the
best playback singers in the Indian and Pakistani music industries of all times. In 2008, Aslam
received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, the fourth-highest civilian honor award from the Pakistani
government. He is also a recipient of a number of Lux Style Awards. Aslam made his acting
debut in 2011 with the Urdu social drama film Bol. In 2019, he was awarded a star in the Dubai
Walk of Fame after his nomination for the best singer in Pakistan. He was also featured in the
Forbes Asia's 100 Digital Stars, published in December, 2020. Aslam has a large fan following
in Pakistan as well as in neighboring countries of India and Bangladesh. He refers to his fans as
"Aadeez"

Family Caste & Wife

Atif was born in a Pakistani Punjabi family. His mother is Rehana Shaheen and father is
Mohammad Aslam. He has 3 brothers named Shahbaz, Shahzad and Sheraz.

He married educationist Sara Bharwana in Lahore on 29 March 2013; Atif said in an interview
that the couple dated for 7 years before they get married. He has a son named Ahad Aslam.

Early life
Atif Aslam was born in Wazirabad, Pakistan. His kindergarten started in model town, Lahore at
Kimberley hall school. His first stage manifestation was in a fancy dress show at his school when
he was in 1st grade, where he performed as Imran Khan. Since then cricket was a passion for
him. At that time he did not listen to any particular kind of songs.

At the age of 9, he moved to Rawalpindi where he studied at Saint Paul's Cambridge school. He
came back to Lahore in 1995 where he continued his studies in divisional public school (DPS),
model town, Lahore.

He was selected in his school cricket team as a bowler. He cleared his 10th grade at 14 years of
age with a distinctive edge that he has always been the youngest boy in the class because of his
double promotions while he was in Kimberley hall.

During this period, he was putting his best efforts into becoming a professional cricketer. He
passed out of DPS after completing his school ending matriculation exams. He also played table
tennis.

He further continued his education at PAF College, Lahore where he completed his f.sc with the
class of 2001. He then did his bachelors of computer science from University of Central Punjab
(UCP).

Music career
He used to sing at the college canteen when his friends urged him to participate in the singing
competition on Independence Day celebrations at PAF College Lahore in 1998. He performed
there and won the competition. Thereafter, he also won several other college competitions.

He met Goher - a guitarist who would be his future jal bandmate, at his college. Together, they
practiced and started doing mini-concerts for their friends. Atif used to perform on junoon and
strings songs at these concerts. They started performing at their college, Mc Donald’s, Uncle
Bubba’s rabba dabba and other restaurants. Thus began the original line up of Jal.
Jal recorded the song Aadat at Mekal Hassan's studio. The song became popular on different
musical websites in Pakistan. The song was also being aired on major radio stations of Pakistan
like city FM 89, FM 100, mast FM 103, FM 105, etc. The video for this song was released on
Ary digital and the musik and then it was played on almost all the channels.
Solo career
Atif released his first album Jal Pari on 19 July 2004 under sound master and IC records. Its
promoters declared it to be the bestselling album of the year within just 5 months of the release.
In the meantime, Atif also cleared his bachelors in computer science (hons) from the University
of Central Punjab. On 14 April 2007, Atif Aslam performed at Royal Albert hall. His second
album, Doorie was released on 22 December 2006.
Later, Atif sang two songs for a Bollywood film Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani called Tera hone
laga hoon and Tu jaane na, both of which have been well received by the Indian audience. Atif
has also sung many more songs for Bollywood like Pehli nazar mein (race) and Bakuda tum hi
ho (Kismat Konnection).
His next Bollywood venture is prince in which he has sung four songs (tere liye, aa bhi ja sanam,
kaun hoon main and o mere khuda). The songs were composed by musician Sachin Gupta, who
has had a number of hits with Atif in the past.