Documentary on Pakistani scientist Abdus Salam makes it to Netflix

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Documentary on Pakistani scientist Abdus Salam makes it to Netflix
By Entertainment Desk
Published: September 18, 2019
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Pakistani Nobel Laureate Dr Abdus Salam. PHOTO: REUTERS

In late May this year, the makers of Salam – a documentary on Pakistan’s first ever Nobel Prize Winner Dr Abdus Salam – revealed that the film will soon be available to a streaming platform.

Salam – The First ****** Nobel Laureate
Coming soon to a streaming platform near you. pic.twitter.com/qGezvVrzHt

— Salam – the film (@salamdocufilm) May 31, 2019



Now, it has been confirmed that the documentary will now release on Netflix on October 1st.

Yea already set reminder pic.twitter.com/YQQzd0ORHC

— Rehan Chaudhary (@ch_rehaan) September 18, 2019

Salam looks poised to rehabilitate the scientist in public memory. A riveting trailer of the film devotes much attention to how the nobel laureate’s Ahmadiyya faith continues to polarise public discourse.

“This is the scientific age. No one can escape it. No one in the East can. No one in the West can,” Salam is heard stating emphatically in the teaser of the documentary.

Forgotten but not forgiven: Documenting Abdus Salam

The trailer also contains footage of Salam receiving the Nobel Prize. Salam is seen posing alongside Gustav of Sweden in 1979 and meeting the Pope.

Calling his achievement ‘nothing exceptional’, a cleric proceeds to use the derogatory term Qadiani. “This Nobel Prize awarded to Abdus Salam Qadiani is nothing exceptional, nor it is an extraordinary accomplishment in human history,” he says. “The day you declared me a non-Muslim, is the day you made me a second class citizen,” Salam is heard remarking thereafter.

‘Cake’, ‘Salam’ win respective categories at South Asian Film Festival

The trailer then proceeds to document the relentless persecution Ahmadis grapple with in Pakistan. A narrator then eulogises Salam saying, “He was always appreciated by the western world. He was different, he looked different.”

Last year, Salam won Best Documentary Feature in South Asian Film Festival of Montreal.

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[El Sidd]

Congratulations to all the staff at Netflix for making this possible.

Side Note thanks to UK and India too

 

[Menace2Society]

This is what happens when Pakistanis achieve their true potential and put their foreign defunct irrelevant and flawed ideologies to one side.

Quantum physics is showing the true connection between God and Us and its simple as that. No dogma, no rituals, no ideologies. Just faith in God and science.

 

[Flash_Ninja]

Ayub Khan respected him, but his treatment after that is shameful.

Even today with the Atif Mian controversy shows that these self-serving religious extremists need to be purged for good.

 

[ghazi52]

Film on Dr Abdus Salam is coming to Netflix in October


The feature-length film has already won accolades on the international film festival circuit.

The feature-length film has already won accolades on the international film festival circuit.

A documentary about Pakistan's first and only Nobel Laureate in Science, Dr Abdus Salam, will be on Netflix in October.

Salam — The First ****** Nobel Laureate, a feature-length film, has already won accolades on the international film festival circuit, including DFW South Asian Film Festival, South Asia Human Rights Festival, South Asian International Film Festival and the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal, among others.

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When he won the Nobel prize in 1979, he became the very first Pakistani to achieve this distinction, and only the fourth from the subcontinent.

Born in 1926 in a remote village in Punjab, British India, Salam was a child prodigy. He came from humble beginnings, growing up in a small brick house with a large family of eleven. While Salam’s legacy looms large in the world of physics, he is largely forgotten in Pakistan because of his faith.

Salam — The First ****** Nobel Laureate will be available to stream on Netflix starting October 1st, 2019.

 

[Imad.Khan]

A Pakistani is only a Pakistani when he is overseas, but when he is in Pakistan, he is could be anything but a Pakistani.........how sad are these affairs.