Salman Rashid

Legend of a Traveller
10 December 2018

Labels: Documentary, Salman Rashid, Travel Writer

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The Fort of Rannikot: The Great Wall Of Sindh
20 April 2016

Doc24 - 28th August 2015 by aneesmalik12

Related: The Fort of Rannikot

Labels: Documentary, Heritage, Sindh

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What I told the Girls at LCWU
11 April 2016

Moneeza Hashmi is a very dear friend who values my work. It was in her tenure as General Manager PTV Lahore Centre that we did the 19-part, 30-minutes each, travel/history series titled Nagri Nagri Ghoom Musafir. It was also under her stewardship that I made the 13-part documentary Sindhia main Sikander on Alexander’s Indian Campaigns, once again each episode of 30 minutes.

The first series was executed in 1998-99 and the second in 2001. This was more than a quarter century after the now vaguely remembered masterpiece travel show titled Selani kay Saath had enthralled PTV viewers. That was the work of the one and only, the great doyen of documentary makers in Pakistan: Obaidullah Baig. OB, as we who had the great good fortune of being his friends, called him, was the master story-teller. The raconteur par excellence who leapt straight out of the pages of some thick medieval tome of fairy tales. When he spoke, his gravelly voice and the turn of phrase held so many of us rapt for he easily matched (if not outdid) Scherazade of the Thousand and One Nights.

Labels: Documentary, Geography, Guest Speaker, LCWU, Obaidullah Baig, Pakistan, Pakistan Railways, Sindhia mein Sikander

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Weekend World With Sophiya
28 March 2015

Labels: Documentary, Salman Rashid, Travel

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Rannikot Documentary
01 March 2015

Doc24 -- Rannikot Documentary 13th February 2015 [Click to watch the Documentary]

Related: Rannikot - enigmatic, inscrutable, inviting

Labels: Documentary, Heritage, History, Podcast, Sindh

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Real heroes
04 September 2014

The contents of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film were known in some circles in Pakistan, though not widely enough to be common knowledge, and there was no celebration in this blighted land prior to her winning the Oscar. No one acknowledged the courage of Ms Obaid-Chinoy to talk about something we would rather not know. No one celebrated her mastery over the craft of film-making.

Then, word came from across the seas of this wonderful young woman winning that coveted award. An award from the government, it was suddenly decided, was very much in order. So lacking of finesse was the haste in announcing the local award that it was obvious the babus were goaded out of their sleep only because of the Oscar.

Imagine what would have happened if Obaid-Chinoy had not won the Oscar. Since we do not wish to acknowledge the darkness of our souls, she would have been hounded to the far side of hell for revealing our evil. Her documentary about victims of acid attacks would have been a ‘nefarious act to defame the country’. We kid ourselves, because the country is already infamous for the various forms of evil we practice.

Labels: Documentary, People

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History of Jhelum - II
05 March 2014

Shandar Chowk ( 01-03-2014) by Kay2TV

Part I

Labels: Alexander, Documentary, History, jhelum: City of the Vitasta, KAY2TV, Urdu

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On KAY2 TV
01 March 2014

Part 2 of the discussion program Shandar Chowk on KAY2 TV today (Saturday, Mar 1, 2014) at 6.30 PM (PST). Discussing will focus on Taxila (also Jhelum, Alexander the Great, Raja Paurva).

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History of Jhelum
25 February 2014

Shandaar Chowk ( 22-02-2014) by Kay2TV

Part II on next Saturday (Mar 1, 2014) at 6:30PM on KAY2 TV

Labels: Alexander, Documentary, History, jhelum: City of the Vitasta, KAY2TV, Urdu

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On KAY2
22 February 2014

Will be on air today (Saturday, Feb 22, 2014) at 6.30 PM (PST) discussing Jhelum and parts of the Salt Range [including Jhelum (city and river), Alexander the Great, Raja Paurva and Tilla Jogian) during one hour, two parts, discussion program Shandar Chowk at KAY2 TV. Second part will be aired same time next Saturday (Mar 1, 2014) - image from the show.

Here is the link: http://kay2.tv/livetv.php

Labels: Alexander, Documentary, History, jhelum: City of the Vitasta, Urdu

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Documentary makers who refuse to learn
13 July 2013

When the great and peerless Obaidullah Baig (OB) passed away last year, I wrote a piece in Express Tribune. In my praise for that unmatched human, I lamented how we had not learned a thing from him. Among other things I vented my spleen on this current crop of so-called documentary makers that plague the worthless private TV channels: they are ignorant as ignorant can be and they speak an atrocious language which is neither English nor Urdu. Yet, with no knowledge of anything, they claim to be making documentaries.

Among the readers’ comments to this, one Tariq Ahsan wrote to say he was appalled at the language I had used in my criticism of TV presenters who say, ‘We have reached so and so place, let’s ask the chowkidar about its history!’ For crying out loud, the moron has not read anything himself and is relying on a semi-literate chowkidar to be familiar with history.

Labels: Documentary, History, Obaidullah Baig

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