The Big Durian
Docu-drama
Language:Malay/English
Directed by: Amir Muhammad
Shooting format: DVCAM
Screening: BETA SP (PAL)
Duration: 75 mins
2003
Synopsis:
On 18 October 1987, a soldier went on a murderous amok with an M-16 in Kuala Lumpur's Chow Kit district. Due to circumstances peculiar to the time and place, this became the trigger for a citywide panic amid rumours of racial riots. Nine days later marked the start of an infamous Internal Security Act clampdown, "Operation Lalang." The subsequent months also saw a certain shift in the Malaysian public's perceptions of the police, media, judiciary, royalty and political process. The Big Durian is a fiction/documentary hybrid in which 23 Malaysians (some real, some fictitious) talk about how the chain of events affected them ... or not.
Screenplay by: Amir Muhammad
Producer: James Lee
DOP: Woo Ming Jin
Editor: Terrence Raj
Music: Hardesh Singh
Animation: Deepak Menon Kumaran
Executive Producer: Rogayah Shahariman and Sylvia Tan
Associate Producer: Lina Tan
Still Photography: Danny Lim
Cast: Farish A. Noor, Ghafir Akbar, Patrick Teoh, Anne James, Jo Kukathas, Low Ngai Yuen, Namron, Rashid Salleh, Salleh Ben Joned
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