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Following on “Jagat” and “Fire on Water”, Sun J-Perumal continues to improve his command of the medium, this time coming up with a crime/road movie amalgam which seems to include elements from Lynch and Tarantino. Let us take a closer look.

Macai is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam

Siam, a drug dealer in the fictional country of Lingapura, which borders Singapore, spends most of his time with prostitutes and his sole friend, Oosi, a family man who always seems to be drunk or on something else. At one point though, Siam misplaces a stash belonging to his brutal kingpin boss, and asks Oosi’s help to get the money to compensate him. Oosi brings in Jack, an old classmate, and the three embark on a road trip in order to get the money, which involves kidnapping the son of a mogul and asking for ransom. Expectedly, things do not go as planned,...

Statistics say that roughly 7% of the population of Malaysia, 1.9 million people, are of Tamil origins. Community that big must be dynamic and is somewhat integrated to society, although its cultural representation could be wider. “Metro Maalai”, the debut feature written and directed by Haran Kaveri and Shobaan, revolves around a hint of romance between a Malaysian Tamil man and Indian Tamil woman in Kuala Lumpur. We got it through our Submit Your Film program.

“Metro Maalai” is structured in chapters, chronicling the romance between the anonymous guitarist (first-timer Satish Kumar) and a married woman Nithya (Punitah Shanmugam). The first two chapters serve as an introduction where we meet our characters and their daily life routines. The guitarist is recovering from a painful break-up from his girlfriend, trying to land as much gigs as possible in precarious work conditions to survive the harsh economy, but also the loneliness. On the other side,...