Dramas and Movies

Funny thing happened.

You know the epic drama 'Adam and Hawa' on Astro? Well, I was wondering what all the rave was about until I watched episode 55 (or was it 56?) posted on FB. Since then I started to watch the series on the internet (as I dont have astro mustika) until the end.

But that's not all. Since then I started to browse and watch malay telemovies and dramas on you tube or daily motion or what not whenever I have the time. I found some good ones and some bad ones. And I even started to watch out for certain actors or directors. I used to dismiss Malay movie and dramas except for the late Yasmin Ahmad movies.

Since I don't have much time to watch TV, the 'new' way of catching up via internet is the most convenient thing. I know I know. It's not all that new. My girls have been watching movies on the internet all the while and its been sometime since we bought our last DVD. But it's new to me. Ha ha.... Of course it helps to have 20M unifi at home. Hee....

Well anyway, after a number of dramas and movies (since that AH episode 55/56), I made a couple of obeservations:
1) some common characters in malay dramas are the 'talam dua muka'. More often than not there will be at least one bad character who would be full of 'hasad dan dengki'.
It makes me wonder, is this a common character among us in the malay communitiy in real life?
2) I watched a number of drama series with disppointing ending. We all knows even when writing an essay when we were in school that closing is very important to capture the whole essence of the story and leave the reader something to ponder with or a big nod of approval. That 'feel good feeling' is often missing.
So, do we need better script writers or are the directors partly to be blamed?

But I must admit there are some really good ones. Surprisingly, I enjoyed 'Pisau Cukur' and thought that Nur Fazura was great in that movie. Not much of a fan of Maya Karin I am afraid. Nor Aaron Aziz. Who both acted in the same movie. And I am not a big fan of 'Ombak Rindu' either. Sorry folks!

Anyway, just so you know, my current favourite actors are Nadiya Nisaa (love her since the movie "Cun") and Beto Kusyairy. Still catching up with all the Beto Kusyairy dramas and movies.

And my current favourite movie is definitely a movie called "Cinta" directed by Kabir Bhatia. If you have not seen this, then you must.

But of course nothing beats any of P.Ramlee epic movies. He is definitely a legend!

P.S. Have you watched the telemovie "XOXO" played by Nadiya Nisaa and Remy Ishak? If not, you should! She is a bomb! You can find it on you tube. Yet to watch her in "Jiwa Taiko".
P.P.S. Anyone needs a brand new DVD player? Its still in the box!