Chemman Chaalai
Note: Re-write on 17 May 2005
Too tired on Saturday night 07 May and didn’t have additional energy to carry on my struggle on typing, decided to paste something simple first, as follows:
A MALAYSIAN INDIAN STORY
An Indian film without singing and dancing, Chemman Chaalai is a film about Malaysian Indians told in a Malaysian way.
MORE COMING SOON…
Now they are here… (17 May 2005)
It was a week after I watched my last film in Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) 2005, Tropical Malady, somehow this year I didn’t manage to catch any Malaysian film due to the clash of the film screening time with my work schedule. Alas, the intricateness between missing something local and confusing myself with the relationship development of Keng & Tong (see Tropical Malady), made me searching around for Malaysian films that have been screened in film fest, aimlessly, perhaps.
Found Chui Mui’s 24 min short film - A TREE IN TANJUNG MALIM.
Further searches resulting the film stated above.
She quoted:
“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in it’s history, expresses its own culture and affirm its own selfhood, it cannot fulfill itself” - Malcom X
I sank into the thinking blues that night.