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Directed by
  
Shuhaimi Baba

Running time
  
115 minutes

Language
  
Malay English Chinese

Director
  
Shuhaimi Baba

Producer
  
Shuhaimi Baba

3.2/10
IMDb

Distributed by
  
Persona Pictures

Country
  
Malaysia

Initial release
  
29 August 2013 (Malaysia)

Screenplay
  
Shuhaimi Baba

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Release date
  
29 August 2013 (2013-08-29)

Story by
  
Shuhaimi Baba, Halina Samad, Noraini Baba

Cast
  
Faezah Elai, Linda Hashim, Ida Nerina, Zizan Nin, Riezman Khuzaini

Similar
  
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Tanda Putera (English: The Mark of a Prince) is a 2013 Malaysian history film directed by Shuhaimi Baba. The film chronicles the relationship between Tun Abdul Razak, who was the second Malaysian Prime Minister, and his then deputy Tun Dr Ismail set around the time after the 1969 racial riots. The film was intended to be released in Malaysian cinemas on 13 September 2012 but the release date was delayed until 29 August 2013 due to some controversy regarding the portrayal of the racial riots being the plot point of the film. It is Shuhaimi Baba's sequel film to 1957: Hati Malaya in 2007.

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Plot

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The film is a fiction loosely based from the Malaysia's historic event occurred within 1969, when the racial tension had reached its height. The film portrays the close friendship between the second Malaysian prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak and his deputy, Tun Dr Ismail. They were secretive about their health problems as they had the task of restoring the peace in their country following the events of 13 May 1969. Tun Razak was suffering from leukaemia and he had to keep it a secret from his family. They both sought the services of Dr. Macpherson. The reading room of Tun Dr Ismail became a secret clinic for their treatment.

Historical figures

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  • Rusdi Ramli as Abdul Razak Hussein
  • Zizan Nin as Ismail Abdul Rahman
  • Faezah Elai as Rahah Mohammad Noah
  • Linda Hashim as Norashikin Mohd. Seth, Ismail's wife
  • Kamarulzaman Taib as Tunku Abdul Rahman
  • Norman Hakim as Inspector-General Mohammed Hanif bin Omar
  • Sakhee Shamsuddin as Najib Razak, Abdul Razak's son
  • Fictional characters

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  • Kavita Sidhu as Kara
  • Riezman Khuzaimi as Sergeant Aman
  • Kuza as Maimon
  • Zaefrul Nordin as Corporal Musa
  • Ika Nabila as Zarah
  • Zoey Rahman as Johan
  • Ahya U as Zaman
  • Alan Yun as Allen
  • Historical accuracy

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    Shuhaimi Baba had stated that the film is based on true historical facts and that it is not a propaganda and that the film is mainly about the friendship between Tun Razak and Tun Dr Ismail, while the 13 May incident is merely a backdrop to the film. However, Shuhaimi also mentioned that there were significant amounts of creative illustration and fictional content added in.

    Critical response

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    Aidil Rusli writing for The Star calls the film "an engaging experience" despite its "niggling faults" - its approach to an episodic narrative "having to cram everything into a two-hour movie", and "less-than-believable" CGI shots to illustrate the period the film was set in.

    Umapagan Ampikaipakan, of radio station BFM 89.9, on the review website UmaandJoe.com says that the film glorified Abdul Razak and Dr Ismail at the expense of their predecessor Tunku Abdul Rahman; that it had "made Tunku look like a blithering fool. It made him look toothless. [...] when you tell the story, you don’t undermine another leader. You don’t say Bill Clinton was great but JFK was a loser.” His co-host Johanan Sen observed on the production aspect of the film where its first half "looks like an unfinished History Channel special without voiceovers done or without any proper historians being interviewed. [...] ...a re-enactment footage arranged together without proper narrative."

    Erni Mahyuni of Malay Mail, in a scathing commentary of the film that was widely circulated online, also stated of its seemingly lacking of a coherent narrative; with the ensemble cast's performance having "the collective expressiveness of IKEA furniture". The performance of lead actor Rusdi Ramli in particular was derided for his "unconvincing" expressions and "forced" chemistry with co-actor Zizan Nin, the latter aspect coming across as "a parody of bromance". Erni further wrote that the movie appeared to have negationist undertones against the 1969 riots and it negatively portrayed the two statesmen protagonists "as pompous idiots who do not trust their wives".

    There was also some common ground regarding how the central characters of Abdul Razak and Ismail, and their wives had been miscast by more younger actors.

    Box-office

    The movie failed to collect back its budget, affected by the Penang screening ban and intense competition with other international movies that were also showing in cinemas at the time such as Kick-Ass 2 and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. In addition, another local movie that was released at about the same time titled KL Zombi surpassed it and the aforementioned international films to hit second place in opening weekend takings between 29 August and 4 September alone, with only Elysium beating it at first place.

    Penang ban, viewing advisory and screening

    Before the release of the film, the film sparked controversies about the accuracy of its contents of the film after the release of the trailer in relation to the 13 May riots. Opposition lawmakers alleged that the film portrayed the Chinese and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) in a negative light. Further controversy was caused after there were allegations of the film's official Facebook page featured a picture of opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang being carried away by a group of uniformed officials with captions claiming that Lim had urinated on the Selangor flag in the house of former Selangor chief minister Harun Idris. Lim denied the allegation in response and said that the picture featuring him in the Facebook page was actually taken in Sabah in 1984. The director Shuhaimi Baba also denied that Lim was to be featured in the film.

    On 28 August 2013, the Penang state government had send out advisory directives to all cinema operators in the state to not screen the movie. Its Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had claimed that there are slanderous scenes that could provoke racial hatred. However, less than 24 hours after the directives had been issued on 29 August, the state government had issued another contradictory letter stating they were merely "advised" against screening it, instead of otherwise banning it. Cinemas in Penang eventually screened the movie despite the state government's advisory. Communications and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the movie will hit cinemas in Penang starting 31 August 2013.

    References

    Tanda Putera Wikipedia