Zakir Thaver is a documentary filmmaker. His debut film which he developed and produced, Salam - The First ** Nobel Laureate, garnered accolades and critical acclaim. It had a Netflix release in 2019. He’s currently producing a documentaries on Nusrat Fateh Ai Khan and Adam Osborne, the inventor of the laptop.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Who found Nusrat's lost recording?
2:30 Salam's contribution to Science
5:30 Is the hatred against Salam new?
6:45 How pivotal is 1974?
10:40 AQ Khan and the Bomb
13:00 Mediocrity, Khilafat Cola and Zakir Naik
22:58 Salam's Contribution to the Bomb
25:00 Editing the Documentary and the Science
27:00 Fact Checking in a Documentary
32:30 Salam had contradictions
35:00 Science Education and learning how to think
45:22 Kids Education and Admission Tests
49:22 Perspectives, Narratives and Making Documentaries
58:40 Making a Documentary on Nusrat
1:06:00 Feature length vs a Docuseries
1:07:30 Qawalis vs Ghazals
1:10:00 Nusrat did not care about his health
1:15:00 Nusrat, Rahat and the Qawali tradition
1:23:00 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan improvising
1:26:11 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in India
1:28:00 Red tape in archiving
1:31:00 Audience Attention
1:33:30 Audience Questions
