PapaDom

This movie was good. After much criticising on Mr. Afdlin Shauki of his movies on his blog page, finally the man came out with a movie called 'Papadom'.Thing about this movie is that they didnt show it off to the public once it was done. Instead, they showed had an official screening at the Malaysian Film Festival that was held in Kota Kinabalu earlier this year. There was much hype about the movie as it won alot of awards and was a stiff competition with Yasmin Ahmad's mind blowing movie 'Talentime'.

Anyways, this movie is about a father's( acted by Afdlin,of course) love for his daughter (acted by Liyana Jasmay) after the death of his loving and doting wife (Noorkiriah) in a car accident. The movie shows obsessed Afdlin becomes of his daughter from at the first shots of the film after his wife dies were that his was 'selamba' to try and take his daughter's top off to allow her to go and bathe (a very good touch!) and he brings her food to school complete with plates,rice, chicken, vege and the ever so famous food of the film-papadom.

The comedy in this movie was very very nice. Not like the previous movies he made that seemed to make flops and had bad malay jokes or in other words 'lawak kampung'. But this film it was so modern and it was really refreshing to see that there were also chinese and indian people acting in this movie. Most of the time in Malaysian movies they only show Malays,like as if they are the only race in Malaysia. Liyana's best friend (Chelsia Ng) played a good role with lots of dialog and so was Pete Teo as Afdlin;s best friend. There was a nice touch in the movie when Pete Teo said at one point, since there was him and Afdlin and Indian man runs a shop, they could all get Dato' ship titles.

The camera angles were good. The dialog made sense, so was its jokes. Lightings were abit problamatic at some parts (eg:at Yvone's house for the party). Sound system was good. But I think Mr.Afdlin should really consider not taking Vanida as his partner in any movie or well just not hire her at all. Ms.Vanida,face it. You cant act. Ms.Vanida Imran was as usual, as stiff as a stick but her dialog's gave her off,so it was ok on her part.Sepi was made succesful because of the wonderful and brilliant director Mr.Khabir Bhatia and it was also because of his dramatic effects the movie was nice. Given just by your acting,pfft.

I think this was a-one-of-a kind malay movie. It was such a different movie. This movie deserved their awards which were:

Best Original Story,
Best Actress,
Best Actor and
Best Film at the 22nd Malaysian Film Festival 2009!

Although, I would have given the last award to Yasmin Ahmad's 'Talentime'. It was just too good.

Mr.Afdlin, please make more movies like this. It was really nice to watch. And the boria part, good touch. Thumbs up!