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26-510: A young Indian man, the son of a beloved tiger hunter, comes to Chicago in 1979 on a quest for success. Trained as an engineer, Sami Malik's dream is initially thwarted and he must take a temporary job as a lowly draftsman in an electronics company. He moves in with several other under-employed engineers and a Pakistani chef (Babu Rahman) who have emigrated to the U.S. His misfit roommates concoct an elaborate farce in order for him to romance his childhood crush, Ruby Iqbal. Sami meets Alex Womack,

52-450: A language are disputed by scholars. However, despite serving as the country's lingua franca, most Pakistanis speak their ethnic languages and the lingua franca as second. Numerous regional and provincial languages are spoken as native languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups, with the Punjabi language having a national plurality as the first language of approximately 45 percent of

78-451: A non-exploding microwave that also heats frozen food properly and present it to the company head, just in time for him to make a deal to manufacture it. Frank is so grateful for the help that he gives them all jobs. Sami fails to impress Ruby when she and her strict father visit Chicago on a tour of the U.S., but at the film's conclusion he, Alex, and Babu are seen driving to California to catch up with her and plead his case again, now that he

104-665: A significant presence in the Middle East , Europe , North America , and Australia . According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Pakistan has the seventh-largest diaspora in the world. According to the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development of the Government of Pakistan , approximately 10+ million Pakistanis live abroad, with the vast majority (over 4.7 million) residing in

130-458: Is a gainfully employed engineer. In January 2013, it was announced that Lena Khan would be directing a comedy film titled The Tiger Hunter from her own script. The film was funded through a Kickstarter campaign. In August 2014, it was confirmed that the cast included Danny Pudi , Jon Heder , Iqbal Theba , Kevin Pollak , Karen David , and Samuel Page . The film released in fall of 2018 across

156-497: Is also known as Aryan languages , referring to the languages spoken by Aryan peoples, where the term Aryan is the ethnocultural self-designation of ancient Indo-Iranians . But in modern-day, Western scholars avoid the term Aryan since World War II , owing to the perceived negative connotation associated with Aryanism . Historically, the Indo-Iranian speakers, both Iranians and Indo-Aryans, originally referred to themselves as

182-410: Is the shalwar kameez , a unisex garment widely-worn, and national dress , of Pakistan. When women wear the shalwar-kameez in some regions, they usually wear a long scarf or shawl called a dupatta around the head or neck. The dupatta is also employed as a form of modesty—although it is made of delicate material, it obscures the upper body's contours by passing over the shoulders. For Muslim women,

208-478: The 1956 constitution has led to the large-scale injection of Islam into most aspects of Pakistani culture and everyday life, which has accordingly impacted the historical values and traditions of the Muslim-majority population . Marriages and other major events are significantly impacted by regional differences in culture but generally follow Islamic jurisprudence where required. The national dress of Pakistan

234-582: The Andronovo culture , the successor of Sintasha culture, was an Indo-Iranian culture. Currently, only two sub-cultures are considered as part of Andronovo culture: Alakul and Fëdorovo cultures. The Andronovo culture is considered as an "Indo-Iranic dialect continuum", with a later split between Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages. However, according to Hiebert, an expansion of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) into Iran and

260-761: The Arab states of the Persian Gulf . Indo-Iranian languages The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages ) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.5 billion speakers, predominantly in South Asia , West Asia and parts of Central Asia . The areas with Indo-Iranian languages stretch from Europe ( Romani ) and

286-610: The Aryans . The Proto-Indo-Iranian -speakers are generally associated with the Sintashta culture, which is thought to represent an eastward migration of peoples from the Corded Ware culture , which, in turn, is believed to represent the westward migration of Yamnaya-related people from the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone into the territory of late Neolithic European cultures. However,

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312-548: The Caucasus ( Ossetian , Tat and Talysh ), down to Mesopotamia and eastern Anatolia ( Kurdish languages , Gorani , Kurmanji Dialect continuum , Zaza ), the Levant ( Domari ) and Iran ( Persian ), eastward to Xinjiang ( Sarikoli ) and Assam ( Assamese ), and south to Sri Lanka ( Sinhala ) and the Maldives ( Maldivian ), with branches stretching as far out as Oceania and

338-537: The United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis ). Having one of the fastest-growing populations in the world, Pakistan's people belong to various ethnic groups, with the overwhelming majority being native speakers of the Indo-Iranic languages . Ethnically, Indo-Aryan peoples comprise the majority of the population in the eastern provinces of Pakistani Punjab , Sindh , and Kashmir , while Iranic peoples comprise

364-699: The Caribbean for Fiji Hindi and Caribbean Hindustani respectively. Furthermore, there are large diaspora communities of Indo-Iranian speakers in northwestern Europe (the United Kingdom ), North America ( United States , Canada ), Australia , South Africa , and the Persian Gulf Region ( United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia ). The number of distinct languages listed in Ethnologue are 312, while those recognised in Glottolog are 320. The Indo-Iranian language with

390-714: The United States, in over 50 cities. It was distributed by Regal and Shout! Factory, and soon became available On Demand and on Netflix in North America and South Asia. It is available in various countries across the world in different formats. The film had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on April 21, 2016. The film was received positively, with strong reviews in outlets such as The New York Times and Los Angeles Times . It received positive reviews from 78% critics on

416-454: The country has the second-largest population of Muslims in the world after Indonesia . Other minority religious faiths include Hinduism , Christianity , Ahmadiyya , Sikhism , the Baháʼí Faith , Zoroastrianism , and Kalasha . Pakistan's Hindu and Christian minorities comprise the second- and third-largest religious groups in the country, respectively. The Pakistani diaspora maintains

442-500: The dupatta is a less stringent alternative to the chador or burqa . Urdu , or Lashkari (لشکری ), an Indo-Aryan language , is the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while it shares official status with English , it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups. It is not believed to be a language affiliated with any ethnicity and its speakers come from various backgrounds. Although Indo-Aryan in classification, its exact origins as

468-526: The exact genetic relationship between the Yamnaya culture, Corded Ware culture and Sinthasta culture remains unclear. The earliest known chariots have been found in Sintashta burials, and the culture is considered a strong candidate for the origin of the technology, which spread throughout the Old World and played an important role in ancient warfare . There is almost a general consensus among scholars that

494-711: The largest number of native speakers is the Hindustani language ( Hindi - Urdu ). The term Indo-Iranian languages refers to the spectrum of Indo-European languages spoken in the Southern Asian region of Eurasia , spanning from the Indian subcontinent (where the Indic branch is spoken, also called Indo-Aryan) up to the Iranian Plateau (where the Iranic branch is spoken). This branch

520-460: The majority in the western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . In addition to its four provinces , Pakistan also administers two disputed territories known as Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan ; both territories also have an Indo-Aryan majority with the exception of the latter's subregion of Baltistan , which is largely inhabited by Tibetan peoples . Pakistan also hosts an insignificant population of Dravidian peoples ,

546-648: The majority of whom are South Indians who trace their roots to historical princely states such as Hyderabad Deccan and are identified with the multi-ethnic community of Muhajirs ( lit.   ' migrants ' ), who arrived in the country after the partition of British India in 1947. Major ethnolinguistic groups in the country include Punjabis , Pashtuns , Sindhis , Saraikis , and Baloch people ; with significant numbers of Kashmiris , Brahuis , Hindkowans , Paharis , Shina people , Burusho people , Wakhis , Baltis , Chitralis , and other minorities. The existence of Pakistan as an Islamic state since

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572-560: The margin of the Indus Valley is "the best candidate for an archaeological correlate of the introduction of Indo-Iranian speakers to Iran and South Asia", despite the absence of the characteristic timber graves of the steppe in the Near East, or south of the region between Kopet Dag and Pamir - Karakorum . J. P. Mallory acknowledges the difficulties of making a case for expansions from Andronovo to northern India, and that attempts to link

598-613: The population follows Sunni Islam . A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims . The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family ( Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia , the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora , most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf , with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe , where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in

624-488: The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes . Pakistani Pakistanis ( Urdu : پاكِستانى قوم , romanized :  Pākistānī Qaum , lit.   ' Pakistani Nation ' ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan . Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country , with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as 90% of

650-428: The son of the company's head (Frank Womak), who has eschewed corporate life and prefers to take Polaroid photographs of depressed persons. Alex helps Sami in his efforts to succeed, encouraging him to work on the company's biggest current project—creating a microwave oven that can properly heat frozen food without blowing up. After several failures, Sami enlists the help of his roommate engineers. They succeed in building

676-420: The total population. Languages with more than a million speakers each include Pashto , Sindhi , Saraiki , Balochi , Brahui , and Hindko . The Pakistani dialect of English is also widely spoken throughout the country, albeit mostly in urban centres such as Islamabad and Karachi . Pakistan officially endorses Islam as a state religion . The overwhelming majority of Pakistanis identify as Muslims , and

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