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