Mat Kilau: How important are films in shaping a society?
Films like ‘Mat Kilau’ and other mainstream blockbuster films tend to have a very high level of influence on society.
Films like ‘Mat Kilau’ and other mainstream blockbuster films tend to have a very high level of influence on society.
A fictionalised story of the real Malay hero Mat Kilau who fought the British colonisers in late 1800s directed by blockbuster filmmaker Syamsul Yusof.
11 years after this film was completed, it finally gets a cinema release. Based on Jit Murad’s 2002 play, could this film be the quintessential Malaysian film?