Tanda Putera to screen next week with controversial “urinating” scene
(TMI) – The controversial Tanda Putera movie will begin screening in cinemas nationwide on August 29 with several contentious scenes still intact, including one depicting a young Chinese man urinating in front of the Selangor Menteri Besar’s official residence.
The controversial Tanda Putera movie will begin screening in cinemas nationwide on August 29 with several contentious scenes still intact, including one depicting a young Chinese man urinating in front of the Selangor Menteri Besar’s official residence.
The film, directed by Datin Paduka Shuhaimi Baba (pic), was supposed to have been screened last year but was postponed three times due to opposition over its depiction of events surrounding the May 13, 1969 racial riots.
Members of the media, including The Malaysian Insider reporters, were invited for a screening of the movie on Tuesday night in Kuala Lumpur.
And despite protests from DAP leaders earlier, the government-funded film still had controversial scenes which some parties claimed incited the May 13 racial riots.
The RM4.8 million movie is the work of Pesona Pictures together with National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas) and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).
In the film, the director seemed to portray the Chinese community as being responsible for the May 13 riots.
And this was the contention of DAP leaders earlier who had said the movie was a Barisan Nasional (BN) propaganda film which can cause racial disharmony.
