Mukhsin

Mukhsin is a 2006 Malaysian film directed by Yasmin Ahmad. It is the third instalment in the Orked trilogy. Shot in justdays, it won one award and one special mention at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival 2007 under the childrens film category International Jury of Generation Kplus Grand Prix of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk for Best Feature Film and the Generation Kplus Childrens Jury Awards Special Mention. Within the firstdays of its release in Malaysia, it earned RM700,000 in boxoffice takings. It went on to have a final gross of almost RM2 million.

Around this relatively simple plotline of a blossoming young romance between the films two young protagonists, are interweaved scenes of Malaysian village life and the dynamics of different types of families. Most of the family scenes revolve around Orked and her mother Mak Inom, father Pak Atan, and the familys close maid who is almost like a family member Kak Yam.The other families which are given attention in the movie are Mukhsins family with his elder brother who has lost his way in life and is trying desperately to find their mother who abandoned them at a young age, and their Aunty who is trying to take care of the two boys as though they were her own, and Orkeds neighbours with the young daughter and pregnant mother who are critical of the western ways of Orkeds family, while they themselves are hurt by the father who wants to abandon them to take on a second wife. ........

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