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Salma

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Pakistan
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How it feels

A man takes a leading role for the first time in a film about why girls should be educated and why people should agree to marriage willingly. It was a modest success in 1960 and later remade.

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What happens

Salma is a 1960 Pakistani film directed by Ashfaq Malik and written by Nazir Ajmeri. It was Allauddin's first appearance in a leading role. A film from the Golden Age of Pakistani cinema, it explores the themes such as the importance of education for girls and the necessity of mutual consent in marital relationships. A moderately successful film of 1960, it was remade in 1980 as Saima, starring Babra Sharif and Nadeem. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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