Hey All,
So it has been a long time since we have posted anything on the blog. There have been reasons for this, one being most of us on the team have been very busy but also because we had nothing really significant to talk about. But we figured it would be a good time to post an update and have a little chat with you all.
Perhaps it would be good to start with what we HOPE to be making this year. We stress the word HOPE as post-S'kali, things are still a little up in the air. But anyways, first off, here is the movie we HOPE to make maybe at the end of this year:
Working Title: “Captain Bangla”
TAGLINE: GO BANGLA GO!
Captain Bangla tells the story of Khaled, a young Bangladeshi man who comes to Malaysia with the hope of finding a better life. Unfortunately the stories of an Asian utopia fail to be true, and in an ironic twist of fate Khaled finds himself working for another immigrant: his Indonesian boss in a fabric store in downtown KL.
Alone and despondent, his only solace is the company of his neighbour-the strange, silent Sikh known as The Colonel-as well as the love he secretly harbours for the local girl who comes into the store ever so often.
One night, Khaled stumbles upon a snatch theft taking place and inadvertently stops it. From that moment on he is convinced he has found his destiny, and decides to prowl the streets fighting crime as Captain Bangla, accompanied by his sidekick The Colonel.
But Captain Bangla is no superhero, and soon he stumbles on a crime so big, it may just be the undoing of his destiny.
An absurdly hilarious yet heart-warming tale that is more Don Quixote than Captain America, Captain Bangla is a story of courage, friendship and making a home in a foreign land.
So that's the movie we hope to be making very soon as a follow up to S'kali.
We've also been very busy pitching some ideas for telly which we hope to get greenlit, and allow us at Perantauan Entertainment to break into TV sometime this year as well. Here's a taste of some of the ideas we've been pitching:
Drama:
THE OLD BOYS
CREATED BY KEITH LEONG
Three Boys: One School; Three Destinies: One Nation.
Comedy:
Country Club (Working Title)
CREATED BY BAHIR YUESUFF
Step into the Kota Bangsawan Country Club, a world of glitz, glamour and utter chaos…
Let us stress that at this point of time, we do not know if any of these are going to get greenlit and we're just working our darndest to make it happen. We are however busy with work left on S'kali which includes getting our long-delayed DVD/VCD release off the ground, sorting out some internet distribution deals, and special one off screenings around the world like in Towson, Maryland USA this March, Cyprus sometime soon and some other dates being worked on.
So there you go! That's stuff that we hope to have on our plate this year and if all goes well, it will be stuff you'll all get to watch come 2008!
Perantauan Entertainment
