Salma_(Pakistani_film)
Salma (1960 film)
1960 Pakistani film
Salma is a Pakistani film directed by Ashfaq Malik and based on writer Nazir Ajmeri's own 1942 film Sharda. The lead cast of the film include Bahar, Allauddin, Yasmin and Ejaz. The music was composed by Rashid Attre. 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 importance of education for girls and necessity of mutual contest in marital relationships.[1][2][3] A moderately successful film of 1960, it was later remade in 1980 as Saima, starring Babra Sharif and Nadeem.[4][5]