Movie
Insan
1955 · 96 min
A slow, heartfelt melodrama that immerses you in its social-realist world, blending warmth and melancholy as it traces the bittersweet arc of a kind man's life.
- Directed by
- K. M. Basker
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Starring
- Saadiah, Siput Sarawak, Omar Rojik
- Overview
- The same year Shaw’s Malay Film Productions released P. Ramlee’s Penarek Becha, they also produced this melodrama centred around another humble trishaw driver. Like Ramlee’s film it was co-written by young literary upstart Jamil Sulong (who later became a director). Similar issues around class, wealth and modernity are explored through the tale of a kindly older trishaw driver (Omar Rojik) who adopts Jamilah, an orphan and marries her guardian, offering her a simple but better life (including a very, very long visit the circus). As the years pass Jamilah pulls away from her impoverished kampong life towards a world of motor cars and monied families, while kind Omar’s health is failing. A classic slice of social-realist melodrama.
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- Directed by
- K. M. Basker
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Starring
- Saadiah, Siput Sarawak, Omar Rojik
