With a humongous budget for Malaysian standards of RM6 million, Pulang is one of the most advertised and most ambitious film coming from the country, in a mainstream approach that seems to draw as much as possible from Hollywood aesthetics. Let us take things from the beginning though.
The script is based on an actual love story that begun in Malaysia during the 30’s and stretched for more than six decades, although the director took a number of liberties with it, as the actual footage in the finale of the film suggests. This love story begins in 1939, in Serkam, Malacca, and revolves around Othman, a local fisherman who falls in love with Thom, a girl who visits the place in order to take care of her dying grandmother. The two of them fall in love instantly, and after a while, they get married, despite the fact that both are very poor.
The script is based on an actual love story that begun in Malaysia during the 30’s and stretched for more than six decades, although the director took a number of liberties with it, as the actual footage in the finale of the film suggests. This love story begins in 1939, in Serkam, Malacca, and revolves around Othman, a local fisherman who falls in love with Thom, a girl who visits the place in order to take care of her dying grandmother. The two of them fall in love instantly, and after a while, they get married, despite the fact that both are very poor.
- 8/14/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Agent Vinod, an Indian film about a secret agent who prevents the Pakistani secret services from detonating a nuclear bomb in Delhi, is accused of being 'anti-Pakistan'
An Indian film about a suave James Bond-style secret agent who thwarts a Pakistani secret services' bid to detonate a nuclear bomb in Delhi has been banned by censors in Islamabad.
The Pakistani Film Censors Board said the film, titled Agent Vinod, contained "anti-Pakistan material". Its producer and star Saif Ali Khan has defended the action thriller, which depicts a globetrotting Indian agent who battles rogue Pakistani spies and terrorists while dodging assassins.
"Our film shows that there are good Pakistanis and bad Pakistanis," he told Afp. "There are people who want to be friends with India and there are people who want to create trouble in India. We have shown both the sides."
Nevertheless Agent Vinod, which grossed $9.7m on its opening weekend in India,...
An Indian film about a suave James Bond-style secret agent who thwarts a Pakistani secret services' bid to detonate a nuclear bomb in Delhi has been banned by censors in Islamabad.
The Pakistani Film Censors Board said the film, titled Agent Vinod, contained "anti-Pakistan material". Its producer and star Saif Ali Khan has defended the action thriller, which depicts a globetrotting Indian agent who battles rogue Pakistani spies and terrorists while dodging assassins.
"Our film shows that there are good Pakistanis and bad Pakistanis," he told Afp. "There are people who want to be friends with India and there are people who want to create trouble in India. We have shown both the sides."
Nevertheless Agent Vinod, which grossed $9.7m on its opening weekend in India,...
- 3/28/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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