Representation is what puts us on the global map of everything, the music producer wrote on Instagram.
24 Sep, 2026
Xulfi is celebrating a big moment for Pakistani music. The music producer took to Instagram on Wednesday, congratulating the team behind the popular Coke Studio track ‘Peechay Hutt’ after it was featured in Netflix’s new dance comedy Best of the Best.
The track first came out in 2022 as part of Coke Studio Season 14. It features vocals by Hasan Raheem and Justin Bibis along with electro-pop beats by Talal Qureshi.
Xulfi, who led the project, expressed his happiness over seeing the song reach listeners around the world.
“Representation is what puts us on the global map of everything. It might just look like a soundtrack in a movie, but music has the power to set the narrative and tell the world about who we are, where we come from, where we have reached and what we stand for. ‘Peechay Hutt’ in a Hollywood movie is part of that revolution,” wrote Xulfi.
The exciting news comes shortly after another historic win for the producer. Coke Studio’s ‘Pasoori’, which he also curated and produced, recently became the first Pakistani-made music video to reach one billion views on YouTube.
Now that ‘Peechay Hutt’ is on Netflix, it will reach millions of subscribers. The song’s music video, at the time of this article’s publication, already has over 28 million views on YouTube.
The Best of the Best soundtrack also includes major international artists such as BLACKPINK, Hanumankind and AR Rahman. This makes the inclusion of ‘Peechay Hutt’ all the more meaningful.
The song’s famous demand to ‘make way’ now means something different: Pakistani music is moving forward — and the world is making room.
Best of the Best is a coming-of-age story directed by Lena Khan and co-written by Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam. The plot revolves around childhood best friends Maya (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and Anjali (Priyanka Kedia) as they join their university’s competitive Bollywood-fusion dance team and set their sights on the US championship. It’s a story about friendship and celebrating South Asian culture on a global stage.
The film, however, recently found itself in hot water over a joke in which Maya tells a girl “guys throw themselves at you like you’re the last plane out of Kabul” — a line critics say makes light of the trauma of the 2021 US evacuation of Kabul.
