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Kami (1982)

Kami poster
Directed by
Patrick Yeoh
Genre
drama film
Country
Malaysia
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Malaysian drama from 1982 that follows a group of young people navigating their relationships and ambitions. The film stars Sudirman Haji Arshad, a popular singer, in his only movie role and was made without typical Bollywood-style conventions.

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What happens

Kami is a 1982 Malaysian Malay-language drama film. It is notable as being the only film featuring Sudirman Haji Arshad, a successful Malay singer dubbed the "Singing Lawyer" as he was a law graduate from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur (an academic background almost unheard of among Malay entertainers). The film is written and directed by Patrick Yeoh, who was notable as being the first non-Malay in several decades to direct a Malay film. The film is unusual for its time, not following the conventional Bollywood influenced formula that typified Malay films of the era. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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