Play around with word puns, Guan Ying's name is actually means "off sound" in literal translation. In the show, Guan Ying is a mute.
Singapore's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
The film's story was originally conceived as a joke after Royston Tan and the two lead actresses agreed that Getai was one of Singapore's uniquely Singaporean cultural attributes.
It took Royston Tan 22 days to produce the film and only two weeks to write it, which, according to him, was the easiest and fastest script he has written. The large variety of costumes used in the production cost upwards of S$100,000.
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