Interview with Atif Death

By Rameez Asif

Hi, Atif. How are you? What’s up? How’s life?

I’m fine, thanks. I’m busy with work these days and digging old school rock and roll and classic heavy metal.

Are you still doing music these days or is it all over for you?

These days? I’m not doing any music at all. I haven’t been for a long time now. It’s been almost 3 years since the last gig and there haven’t been any jam sessions. Lots of reasons behind that. Coming to the last part of the question, it’s not over yet. I will come back to haunt some wannabe mother f****** out there. Commercial and so-called “rock bands”-WATCH OUT!

Your major influence which forced you to do music?

Art should be free from Boundaries

- Neha Jain, Sampurn Media

A toy piano has played a crucial role in Aao Wish Karein’s composer-lyricist Xulfi’s life. It was his mastery over that toy piano that made his brothers gift him a bigger keyboard. And Xulfi, a self-taught musician and the ex-lead guitarist of the first Pakistani mainstream rock band Entity Paradigm, made the most of it.

Xulfi broke into Bollywood with ‘Laaree Chootee’ from Ek Chalis Ki Last Local, and has composed music for four Bollywood movies since. The founder of the band Call, and a rebel at heart, Xulfi is excited about releasing Call’s album Dhoom, working in Bollywood and wishing for a collaboration with Linkin Park.

From Jilawatan’s metal rock to Aao Wish Karein’s essentially pop rock, has Bollywood been constraining your music or do you have the freedom of composition?