Film
Insan
1955 · 1h 36m · Drama · Music · Romance
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Overview
The same year Shaw’s Malay Film Productions released P. Ramlee’s Penarek Becha, they also produced this melodrama centred around another humble trishaw driver. Like Ramlee’s film it was co-written by young literary upstart Jamil Sulong (who later became a director). Similar issues around class, wealth and modernity are explored through the tale of a kindly older trishaw driver (Omar Rojik) who adopts Jamilah, an orphan and marries her guardian, offering her a simple but better life (including a very, very long visit the circus). As the years pass Jamilah pulls away from her impoverished kampong life towards a world of motor cars and monied families, while kind Omar’s health is failing. A classic slice of social-realist melodrama.
Cast
Crew
- K. M. BaskerDirector
Details
- Release date
- April 7, 1955
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Malay
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
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