Bismillahhirahmannirahhim.

Insya'allah pada hari sabtu 3 hb november ini akan bermulalah satu lagi perjalanan sebuah filem yang saya rasa mungkin menjadi salah sebuah filem terpenting saya, kerana topiknya amat dekat di hati saya iaitu perhubungan di antara seorang bapa dengan seorang anak. Kisah-kisah tentang kekejaman ke atas anak-anak kita telah mendorong saya untuk melihat semula perhubungan saya dengan keluarga dan membuat saya menilai betapa pentingnya kehidupan berkeluarga dalam hidup saya.

Papadom adalah kisah mengenai seorang bapa 'workoholic' yang bekerja keras untuk memberi kesenangan dunia kepada keluarganya tetapi satu hari kehilangan isterinya. Sebelum isterinya meninggal dunia beliau membuat suaminya berjanji agar beliau akan menjaga anak mereka sepertimana dia menjaga kerjanya. Dari situ bapa itu berubah dan menumpukan sepenuh masanya terhadap menjaga anaknya. Beliau menjadi seorang bapa yang terover misalinya.

Satu berita yang amat menarik dan menakjubkan juga adalah filem thai saya BRAVE ataupun BERANI telah pun mendapat penjual dari Amerika dan sekarang ini sedang di tayang di American Filem Market di Los Angeles untuk pengedar-pengedar disana. Untuk Mklumat lanjut mengenai BRAVE sila layari.

http://bravethemovie.com

Check it out! Menarik Tertarik Website ni memang the bomb. Trailernya pun dapat anda lihat.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Afdlin Shauki

P.RAMLEE THE MUSICAL. Another proud moment for Malaysians.

It's not a malaysian going to space (i still however feel very strongly that it should have been me in that Soyuz) but this is to me an equally as important landmark in the history of malaysian arts. P.RAMLEE THE MUSICAL WAS SOLD OUT FOR THE WHOLE RUN ON THE NIGHT IT OPENED.
Berduyun-duyun people came for the opening night

Needless to say being a musical slut myself, I've seen it twice and all i can say is that, the more i see it, the more i love it and my love affair with our very own legend P.RAMLEE is rekindled again. A man who was leaps and bounds ahead of his time. He knew what he wanted to see in a Malay Movie and he gave his movies all a special something (regardless wether it was one of his better work or his worst). This musical is a celebration of the legend and also a brief insight into his life's journey. The directors did an outstanding job briinging to life the story. Many clever cinematic like techniques were employed for the massive istana budaya stage. I am in awe and forever will be a fan of the outstanding mind belonging to Adlin Aman Ramli and Zahim Al Bakri. Kudos also to the Production designer , Raja Malek for his wonderful set designs and clever staging of them. These are the same people who helped conceptualise PGL the musical. I predict they will all get their respective datukships within the next five years if they keep this up.

As Adlin said while we were talking about the play the other day, it was a daunting task for him to intertwine a script about P. Ramlee's life and his journey through it with his 4 loves within a 3 hour time frame. In my view he did a fine job an no one scene was more memorable than those with his final muse SALOMA played by the wonderful Liza Hanim. Oh my god Liza Hanim is so gila babi good ok! There are moments she even looks like saloma from afar.The directors have done a fine job with her. I look forward for Liza's star in acting to shine even brighter with performances like those.









Power to P.Ramlee the musical.

Afdlin Shauki

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Maaf Zahir Batin

Pertama sekali ingin saya memohon ampun dan maaf kepada kesemua pembaca blog saya jika ada terkasar bahasa dan tutur kata. Selamat Hari raya and maaf zahir batin jika ada perbuatan diri ku mengacau mindamu, membengkakkan hatimu dan menghiris emosimu. Sememangnya aku hanya manusia biasa yang banyak kelemahan dan yang senantiasa sedang mempelajari ilmu hidup. Have a great raya guys. .

Kini ku persembahkan agar sentiasa kekal abadi di mindaku, berberapa babak dari rumah terbuka saya yang ala kadar semalam.

Ako, Yazlan, Hans and Gua
Producer PAPADOM dan BAIK PUNYA CILOK , Gayathri along with bulat and heil at the smokers corner aka creative nak termuntah corner.
David Teoh tengah meracun minda DOP gua Heil.
Nell making her grand entrance.... in other words, she came late la.
Joanna , Priscilla and June. Bunch of Posers
My sister and her inconsoleable child.
My sister and sister in-law posing maut.
Cikgu diving gua. Capten Nizar and chewren!
Nurul and NOT HER boyfriend ... rrrr.
Joanna , Sharmaine and Zona. Women and their bags.
The Legendary director Mr. Othman Hafsham telan mamam.
Suasana meriah dimajlis ala kadar ku.
Kavin (pusher action figures gua) punya wife...HOT!
C Locco and Mr. Tech yang rap on SUMOlah tu
My Bonda and Joanna Bessey
Saw Teong Hin , Kai and Hans
pia contemplating the lemang.
my bro and budding entrepreneur.

Semoga semua selamat dan berbahagia di hari raya ni. love you all.

Peace on earth! Power to the people.

Afdlin Shauki

Terimakasih kodok-kodok semua!

Thank you to Anne and the rest of the gang for organising the kodoks buka puasa at the great eastern mall semalam. Memang seronok gua dapat berjumpa dengan kengkawan yang dah lama tak jumpa. Thanks to Amylea AF dan Aizat AF kerana datang juga. You all memang kodok. Macam gua jugak. heehee. Gua also harap you all enjoy the gifts yang gua dapat bagi hari tu sebagai kenang-kenangan hari berbahagia itu.

Untuk mereka yang tak dapat datang semalam, esok ada satu aksi rambang berbuka dengan cipkodok lagi, tapi yang ni ala ringkas dekat NZ CURRY house dekat dengan office gua. Masa, sebelum buka ler... kalau tak tahu waktu buka... tanyala kengkawan yang berpuasa...

Anyway my life currently is back in full gear. LOS dan FAUN sudah siap edit dan sudah bersedia untuk dubbing DAN lepas raya gua akan memulakan penggambaran filem terbaru gua yang berjudul PAPADOM. Kisah seorang pengusaha Nasi Kandar di Pulau Pinang yang terlalu kuat bekerja sehingga melupakan tanggungjawabnya sebagai bapa dan suami, akhirnya satu tragedi memaksanya mengubah caranya dan menjadi bapa terlampau misali. Nantikanlah dia di gerai-gerai vcd cetak rompak berhampiran jika tidak berperikemanusiaan.

Power to the People
Afdlin Shauki

ONLY FOR KODOKS and WANNABE KODOKS! IMPORTANT MESSAGE.

Buka puasa dengan friends and fans di fukuoka
Me and one of the festival volunteers

Hey gang, its about that time again when we meet up somewhere and berbuka sesama. To check the details please go this link.
Makan bayar sendiri-sendiri (we go dutch ok!) but I will bring some really cool limited sumolah merchandise and Kodok stuff to give away (and some to buy! if you guys wantlah) so check it out buyakasha!!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5789889391

but basically macam ni..

Tarikh: 6th October 2007 (Sabtu)
Tempat: Chitralada Restaurant, Great Eastern Mall, KL
Time: 6.30 ptg
Buffet Price: RM38.80++ per pax

Sesiapa yg nk join, please rsvp to Cik Anne by sending her your name, contact no & no of pax before 4th October 2007 to anne.khalid@gmail.com. Tapi kena cepat pasal seats are quite limited.


Sekarang ni terlalu kerap layan FACEBOOK sampai blog pun di anaktirikan. Alangkah nyamanya jika blog gua boleh ada kat facebook?.... hmmm siapa ada jalan dia? hubungi gua diemail gua selambakodok@gmail.com

Anyway, kalau u guys dapat sama memang kewl.

Power to the People

Adlin Shauki

Moshi! Moshi!

Basikal. Main mode of transportation
Stesyen keretapi near my hotel

Hi there it has been an interesting trip to fukuoka thus far because there have been loads of stuff happening. Besides the film festival there is also a cultural exchange programme with thailand and India.... really cool. So everyday ada dance and other performances there.
El Gala Hall in the background. In the foreground the fukuoka people celebrate asian cultural diversity
Thai meets India in japan
Interview with J-COM tv... out in the open, in front of city hall

Some really great movies from Asia, termasuk juga some from iran and iraq. Memang menarik melihat filem diorang kerana ianya memberi gua sedikit insight on how they think and since their movies are mostly about human issues, a little bit how the people live in that part of the world. Walaupun iraq sedang menghadapi kesusahan gua amat kagum yang karyawan mereka tak give up berkarya. More power to them.
Next to me a member of the Fukuoka film commision yang banyak membantu kita dalam penggambaran SUMO di Jepun.
A Malaysian student in Fukuoka who helped us out during the shoot dulu in a clip they played on J-COM tv live.
Cun jugak presenter jepun yg baju pink ni. nasib baik puasa.
Haha gua dapat elmo untuk Anais!!!
Depa kata ada Typhoon coming .... tak taula macam mana


Sekarang ni gua nak menjemput sesiapa rakyat Malaysia (student or otherwise) yang berada di Fukuoka dan yang belum sempat menonton filem Sumolah untuk datang esok ke El' Gala Hall 17 hb September, pukul 7.00pm. Sebuah lagi filem dari malaysia arahan Deepak Kumaran Menon 'Dancing Bells' akan dimainkan pukul 10.30am on the 18th, juga di El Gala Hall. Sumollah ataupun LET's SUMO (japanese title) juga akan di mainkan on the 21st September di Solaria Cinema 1 at 4.00pm and again on the 24th Sept at the Nishitetsu Hall at 1.15pm

Kodok-kodok di Malaysia kalau u all ada member kat sini... please holla kat depa kalau nak tengok something from home. If they come tomorrow, we can meet up and borak or buka sesama.
Today i watched the presentation of 'Season's Change' from Thailand at the Solaria cinema
Gua dan orang-orang jepun yang mukanya blur.
Aktres filem Thai 'Season's change'
Inilah Solaria Cinema hall 1 yang dipenuhi about 200 people yang menonton filem thai itu
Gua di depan lokasi 'kelab jiwa luka, tempat' gua, pacai dan awie selalu lepak lepas shooting dan berkongsi masaalah. di seberang jalang Nishitetsu Grand Hotel.

Miss my family at home. Hope everyone is ok. My phone charger still belum sampai mama.
Hope the rest of you are all safe and happy. Chow chin chow. Assalamualaikum.

Power to the People

Afdlin

Selamat berpuasa dari Fukuoka, Japan.

Assalamualaikum dan harapnya semua sihat-sihat belaka. Hari ini adalah, hari pembukaan festival filem Fukuoka dan saya berasa amat nervous sekali untuk mempertontonkan filem saya ini kepada masyarakat Jepun, walaupun Sumolah is out of competition. It's been a year since the last time i was in fukuoka and it is nice to be back. Festival filem Fukuoka tahun ini bertemakan 'wanita dan tarian' dan Filem Malaysia yang berada in competition adalah filem Dancing Bells dari Deepak Kumaran Menon. I hope he does well. It will be great for Malaysia.
Fukuoka currently is quite hot and dry but walking down the streets of tenjin in downtown Fukuoka brings back so much fond memories of shooting Sumolah here. The Fukuoka film commission which helped us a lot during the shooting of Sumolah, has invited Sumolah to be presented to the residents of the city of Fukuoka.
Yesterday i met with Mr. Ariga from Touch Planning (himself a film director having recently shot a movie based on a Manga) and he has agreed to be our sales agent in Japan. This is great news for us and Malaysia as it is not easy to get a sales agent to believe in a relatively unknown Malaysian film. Since there is many other forms of deployment of a film besides the cinema here in japan, he believes he can make some headway with our film to also be released on the dvd market which is huge (because there is no piracy in japan) , the internet, broadband tv, video on demand etc. This is exciting news, plus i have also brought some Malaysian movies for him to consider from Mamat Khalid, Ahmad Izham, Bade. I hope to bring more movies in time to come.

Bilik ku yang agak kemas. Amazing.
The Mayor of Fukuoka giving his welcoming speech.
The ballroom of the Solaria Nishitetsu Hotel
Karyawan-karyawan dari seluruh Asia. Festival ini hanya terbuka untuk Asian Filmmakers sahaja.
Gua besama pelakon filem Vietnam 'The White Silk Dress'
Bersama Pegarah dan Producer Jepun bagi filem 'Fuckin' Runaway' (mind my french), Keita Motohashi dan Osamu Yanagisawa
Bersama Festival Director, Hariki Yasuhiro
Bersama Pengarah filem Thai 'Season's Change' Nithiwat Tharatorn
Kyoko my ad-hoc interpreter and Takayama san, what a friendly and funny politician.
The restaurant that i had supper with my new japanese friends.
The many people i've met from the organising committee who have seen the movie, really loves the movie. They actually thought it was very funny. Tonight i had supper with the guy who is running for Mayor of Fukuoka, Mr Takayama Hiromitsu, who seem to have taken a liking to me mainly because I am Malaysian. Most of our conversation revolves around how he is such an admirer of Tun Mahathir and how he loves Malaysia because the people have warm hearts.... hmm.. masih lagi ke?... Are we still like that? Or are we too becoming too money hungry that we have stop being the legendary gentleman of Asia. I will keep you guys updated as the days go by.

Mope power to the people

Afdlin Shauki

Thank you Michi and Tomoko fo helping organise the schedule and also your wonderful contribution to Sumolah. Whatever success it receives is also because of your efforts.

i miss you mia and anais. i want to huggy huggy you and kissy kissy you guys. Mama, what i want cannot write here.