Tanda Putera

Tanda Putera English Mark of Prince is a 2013 Malaysian history film directed by Shuhaimi Baba. The film is set to be released in Malaysia onSeptember 2012 but delayed untilAugust 2013 The fictional biographical film about the 2nd prime minister of Malaysia Tun Abdul Razak Father of current Prime Minister Najib Razak and his then deputy Tun Dr Ismail set around the time after the 1969 racial riots. It is a Shuhaimi Babas sequel film to 1957 Hati Malaya in 2007.

Before the release of the film, the film sparked controversies about the accuracy of its contents of the film after the release of the trailer in relation to theMay riots. Opposition lawmakers alleged that the film portrayed the Chinese and the Democratic Action Party DAP in a negative light. Further controversy was caused after the films official Facebook page featured a picture of opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang being carried away by a group of uniformed officials with the caption alleging that Lim Kit Siang had urinated on the Selangor flag in the house of former Selangor chief minister Harun Idris. Lim Kit Siang denied the allegation and said that the picture featuring him in the Facebook page was actually taken in Sabah in 1984 while director Shuhaimi Baba denies that Lim Kit Siang is featured in the film. Shuhaimi Baba defended the film saying that it is based on true historical facts and that it is not a propaganda and that the film is mainly about the friendship between Tun Razak and Tun Dr Ismail, while theMay incident is merely a backdrop to the film. However Shuhaimi Baba did mention that there is an amount of creative illustration and fictional content added in.OnAugust 2013, the Penang state government have send out advisory directive to all cinema operators in the state to not screen the controversial movie Tanda Putera. Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the movie is scheduled to be screen onAugust 2013. He claimed that there are slanderous scenes that could provoke racial hatred. Less thanhours after issuing a letter to cinemas in Penang not to screen the Malay movie Tanda Putera, the state government has issued another letter onAugust 2013 saying they were merely advised against screening the controversial movie, not to ban it. Cinemas in Penang will screen Tanda Putera after all despite complying with the state governments advisory that it should not be shown because of the sensitive nature of the fil

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