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HIBURANWanita berkebaya putih, rambut mengurai ganggu Fazura, Fattah minta baca ayat KursiKhamis, 15 Ogos 2019 6:30 AMQARAMI HASHIM
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PELAKON Nur Fazura berdepan pengalaman misteri dan menakutkan ketika menjalani penggambaran filem Dendam Pontianak.Menurut Fazura, 34, dia dan kru melihat kelibat wanita berambut panjang menyerupai dirinya semasa mereka berada di set lakonan tersebut."Dalam pukul 3 pagi waktu rehat, beberapa kru minta saya tengok belakang dan nampak kelibat wanita memakai baju sama seperti saya ketika itu.ARTIKEL BERKAITAN: "Terima kasih minat saya" - Fazura jawab tuduhan 'dating' dengan pereka fesyen
"Memang sama, kebaya putih dengan kain sarung, cumanya rambutnya mengurai ke hadapan dan tak nampak muka. Kami semua buat tak tahu sahaja."Beberapa kali juga kelibat itu muncul di set penggambaran, mujurlah tiada yang kena gangguan dan semuanya berjalan lancar," katanya kepada mStar.
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Fazura tak lupa pengalaman misteri yang berlaku semasa penggambaran filem Dendam Pontianak.Fazura ditemui semasa sidang media filem Dendam Pontianak yang diadakan di Kompleks Kraf, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur pada Rabu.Dalam filem arahan Glen Goei dan Gavin Yap itu, Fazura membawakan watak pontianak bernama Mina.Sementara itu, penyanyi lagu Sayangi Dirimu ini bersyukur tiada kejadian pelik atau aneh berlaku selepas penggambaran itu.
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Fazura dan suami tersayang, Fattah Amin.Malah, suaminya Fattah Amin berpesan supaya dia sentiasa mengamalkan bacaan ayat suci Al-Quran sebagai pelindung diri."Mujurlah balik rumah tak ada apa yang aneh berlaku, suami turut berpesan supaya baca ayat Kursi sebelum masuk rumah."Alhamdulillah semuanya okay sahaja dan perasaan seram itu tidak terbawa-bawa ke rumah," katanya.
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Fazura bersama pelakon Remy Ishak dan Nik Harraz Danish.Dendam Pontianak menjalani penggambaran di kawasan perkampungan di sekitar Selangor dan Perak.Ia mengisahkan tentang sepasang suami isteri yang baru berkahwin dan dibelenggu dengan perkara misteri yang memaksa mereka terjerumus ke lembah pengkhianatan, ilmu hitam dan pembunuhan.Selain Fazura, filem ini turut dibintangi oleh Remy Ishak, Hisyam Hamid, Shenty Feliziana, Nam Ron, Tony Eusoff, Nadia Aqilah, Wan Hanafi Su dan Nadiah M.Din.Dendam Pontianak akan ditayangkan di pawagam Malaysia bermula 12 September ini.Ia turut ditayangkan di pawagam di Singapura pada 29 Ogos ini.Lagu tema berjudul Kasihku Selamanya dinyanyikan oleh Datuk Seri Siti Nurhaliza.
Tags/Kata Kunci:Fazura , Fattah Amin , Dendam Pontianak
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Well, to be fair, semua pelakon akan cakap filem lakonan mereka adalah unik dan lain dari yg lain. Saya memang tak sabar nak tengok filem klasik Melayu dibikin melalui kacamata pengarah bukan Melayu.
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SENI & HIBURAN'Dendam Pontianak bukan filem hantu tipikal panjat pokok'Nadia Azam|Diterbitkan Hari ini 1:47 tengahari|Dikemaskini Hari ini 2:17 tengahari
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Pelakon Nur Fazura yakin filem terbaru lakonannya Dendam Pontianak menampilkan sisi berbeza daripada naskhah berunsurkan entiti yang biasa dipaparkan buat hidangan penonton sebelum ini.Kata Fazura, Dendam Pontianak mempunyai keistimewaan tersendiri apabila ia mendapat sentuhan dua pengarah dari Singapura iaitu Glen Goei dan pengarah tempatan Gavin Yap.“Dendam Pontianak bukan filem berkisahkan pontianak tipikal panjat pokok, tapi ia memaparkan kekuatan wanita dalam menuntut keadilan termasuk haknya.“Apabila saya terima tawaran untuk kerja dengan dua pengarah ni, saya dapati hasilnya mengagumkan.
“Sebab mereka berusaha untuk sampaikan sebuah kisah pontianak dalam keadaan berbeza,” katanya.Fazura ditemui pada majlis pengumuman Dendam Pontianak di Kompleks Kraf, Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur semalam.Untuk rekod, Goei pernah mengarah filem Forever Fever yang dipersembahkan di Festival Sundance selain diedar di AS dan Britain.Yap pula pernah mengarah filem pendek The Incredibly Strange Tale of the Man Who Lost His Love But Bought it Back with a Packet of Duck Rice yang telah terpilih di Anugerah Blencong pada Festival Filem Antarabangsa Jogja-Netpac 2015.Dalam pada itu, menurut pemilik nama penuh Nur Fazura Sharifuddin, dia memang sentiasa menunggu sebuah naskhah dengan jalan penceritaan yang bagus terutama yang mengangkat ciri-ciri wanita.
“Selepas dua tahun tak berlakon, saya masih dapat tawaran berkisahkan cinta tiga segi atau wanita kena pukul, kena tinggal dan menangis. (Cerita macam) ini memang saya tak nak buat.“Wanita seorang yang kuat. Saya mahu berlakon kisah memaparkan bagaimana golongan kami bangun dan menjadi hero. Tu sebab saya sentiasa tunggu skrip yang bagus,” katanya.Dendam Pontianak dijangka menjengah pawagam negara ini bermula 12 September depan.Selain Fazura, ia turut dijayakan pelakon seperti Remy Ishak, Hisyam Hamid, Shenty Feliziana, Nam Ron, Tony Eusoff, dan Nadiah M Din.Dendam Pontianak mengambil latar tahun 1965 yang menceritakan Khalid, watak dilakonkan Remy dan Siti (dilakonkan oleh Shenty) membuat persiapan hari pernikahan mereka.Namun, anasir jahat mula menyelubungi kampung tersebut apabila berlaku kematian dan kejadian misteri.Situasi ini menyebabkan Khalid mengaku dia telah membunuh seorang wanita yang mengandungkan anaknya beberapa tahun lalu dan kini ia muncul sebagai pontianak.Khalid mengumpul orang kampung untuk memburu pontianak tersebut.
Tak sabar nak tengokkkkkkk..
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Fazura di Melodi - Cerita berkenaan Dendam Pontianak bermula 45:05
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Pontianak reportedly observed the cast during filming for S’porean director’s ‘Revenge of the Pontianak’This is Goei's first horror film.Fasiha Nazren | https://mothership.sg/wp-content/themes/mothership_new2/img/icons/clock.pngAugust 25, 09:41 pm
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When I met Glen Goei, I was pleasantly surprised to see how youthful the 57-year-old looked.The sprightly director, who was involved in Forever Fever and The Blue Mansion, as well as a multitude of plays, had recently wrapped up Revenge of the Pontianak.
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of the Pontianak is Goei’s first horror film after more than 20 years in the industry.It is a modern interpretation of the classic Southeast Asian folklore legend of the pontianak, a vengeful female ghost who had died during or after childbirth.
Here’s the trailer:
And a synopsis:“1965, Malaysia. A small village helps Khalid and Siti prepare for their wedding day. Soon after, a great darkness falls upon the village as a string of horrific deaths and supernatural happenings create widespread fear and paranoia amongst the villagers. The events force a confession from Khalid to a murder of a girl he made pregnant years before, now believed to have returned as a Pontianak. To kill this vengeful vampire, he rallies all the men of the village and sets out into the jungle to hunt her down. But can the village stop her?”According to him, this feature film is meant to pay homage to the regional classic horror films that he watched as a child in the 1970s, like the eponymous Pontianak that was released in 1957.However, unlike most pontianak films, Goei attempts to humanise the female ghost by showing what happens from her point of view.This concept sparked when Goei questioned why the pontianak is often portrayed in a negative light.“When I was younger, my parents would always warn me to be careful of beautiful women with long hair in the middle of the night. But as I grew older, I began to wonder why is she demonised? Is she really evil?”14 years in the making
The concept for Revenge of the Pontianak first came to his mind 13 years ago, in 2006.It took a very long time for the film to happen as he couldn’t find a writer to write the story.That was until Malaysian director and actor Gavin Yap visited him in Singapore eight years later.“In 2014, Gavin came to Singapore for a while and we started talking. I didn’t know that Gavin loved horror films and suddenly we began discussing about the film.”The duo became co-directors and by 2015, they had raised enough funds to produce the film.https://mothership.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/together.png(From left) Gavin Yap, Remy Ishak, Nur Fazura and Glen Goei. Photo courtesy of Tiger Tiger Pictures.Casting began in 2017, and the crew filmed the movie within 24 days in January 2018.An entire year to find actorsEven though Goei can speak Malay perfectly fine (he is Peranakan and learnt Malay in school for 12 years), he wasn’t very familiar with Malay-speaking actors in the region.This was another reason why it took more than a decade for the film to happen.As he only wanted the best for his very first Malay language film, he spent an entire year looking for actors for the film.“I really wanted to make sure that I’ve met all the Malay-speaking actors in Malaysia and Singapore in order to get the best cast as possible.”And a star-studded cast was what he got.The film has well-loved celebrities from both Malaysia and Singapore including Remy Ishak, Shenty Feliziana, Hisyam Hamid, and Nur Fazura Sharifuddin.Goei’s mother casted the pontianakThe director has his mother to thank for introducing him to Fazura — his movie lead.Goei was visiting his mother and complained to her that he couldn’t find someone to play the titular role of the pontianak.His mother, who was watching a show, then pointed to the television and said: “This one, get this one. I love her.”https://mothership.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/L1160289.jpgPhoto courtesy of Tiger Tiger Pictures.She was, in fact, watching Fazura’s reality television show called Facing Up With Fazura.“I don’t watch television myself but she was so charming, pretty and attractive. In a way, my mother helped to cast her.”Filmed in banana orchardAs the film was set in Malaysia in 1965, the movie was filmed in a relatively remote village in Hulu Langat, Selangor, which was about a 30-minute drive away from Kuala Lumpur.It took them six months to find the perfect location.He described it as a beautiful forested area up on a hill with lots of banana orchards, which if you do not know, is a place often associated with pontianaks.They even filmed in the banana orchard overnight, but encountering a pontianak was the least of their concerns then.“We had to create rain and these poor actors, it was so cold at around two in the morning. We did many retakes and I think everybody just wanted it to end.”They also had to build the traditional Malay kampung house on stilts from scratch:https://mothership.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/L1210265.jpgPhoto courtesy of Tiger Tiger Pictures.While everything seemed to fall right into place, there was one problem: It would rain almost every day.“We just had to wait for the rain to stop every day before we continued.”The doppelgängerAnd of course, there had to be some supernatural experiences while they were filming a horror film.For instance, Fazura had apparently seen her “doppelgänger” while on set.It was 3am in the morning when she was having her rest in between shoots when several crew members told her to look behind.In a media interview, she shared:“It wore an identical white kebaya with a sarung just like me. The only thing was that her long hair was covering her face.”And it seems like this wasn’t the last time it had happened.“The apparition had appeared a few times during the shooting sessions on set. Thankfully, no one was possessed or disturbed and the filming went on smoothly.”While Goei didn’t experience anything out of the normal himself, he was not allowed to use kemenyan (a sort of incense) anymore after one of the crew members had a terrifying experience.https://mothership.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/L1200090.jpgPhoto courtesy of Tiger Tiger Pictures.As this was a horror movie, some of the scenes required layers of smoke to create an eerie atmosphere.Unfortunately, their smoke machine ran out of smoke and had to resort to other alternatives.Kemenyan was the most accessible option, especially since they were in a rather remote part of Malaysia.“After we lit the kemenyan, somebody in the crew screamed and said: ‘Stop, stop, stop the kemenyan!’ The kemenyan was actually attracting the spirits.”Apart from a few “uninvited guests” here and there, the spirits don’t seem to have any malevolent intent.“The so-called pontianak did not disturb us. In fact, according to Fazura, they were just observing her acting. We’ve been respectful and made our prayers.”Working with Siti NurhalizaAnd as if a star-studded cast wasn’t enough, 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somehow managed to rope in Siti Nurhaliza to sing the film’s theme song.
After watching the film, he knew that the film needed a theme song about love.That’s when he reached out to Aubrey Suwito, a renowned songwriter who wrote Gemilang for Malaysian Idol Jaclyn Victor.He agreed and wrote the song, but Goei was still looking for the perfect voice for the song.He was doing his research and looking through all these singers until Aubrey told him that he was actually Siti’s music director.“For two months I was looking for a singer and why didn’t he tell me? I told him to ask if she was keen and she said yes!”A big fan of Malaysia’s queen of pop, he felt nervous to have to direct Siti for the music video.“Never in my wildest dream would I dare to ask Siti Nurhaliza to sing for me. She was very humble and such a professional, I was so scared of her.”But he wasn’t the only one with cold feet.It seems Siti too was nervous to work with Goei too, as she initially didn’t dare to talk to him directly.“At the end of the music video, she didn’t dare to ask me directly. She told Aubrey to ask me how her performance was. What was I supposed to say? How dare I direct the Malaysian queen of pop.”Revenge of the Pontianak premieres in cinemas August 29, 2019.Top image courtesy of Tiger Tiger Productions
Singapore Gala Premiere of Revenge of The Pontianak
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Revenge of the Pontianak
Film Now showing
Time Out says 4 out of 5 stars
Hell hath no fury like a Malay Mina(h) scorned – and back from the dead.
Revenge of the Pontianak marks acclaimed Singaporean director Glen Goei’s return to the big screen since the release of his 2009 murder mystery The Blue Mansion. Co-directed with Malaysian actor and director Gavin Yap, the film looks at Southeast Asia’s most famous horror icon but humanises her with a romantic storyline. Unlike previous Pontianak films, the vampiric spirit in Revenge of the Pontianak is reimagined through a contemporary lens as well as a narrative that provides her side of the story – after all, there are always two sides.
Set in a small village in 1965 Malaysia, the film follows a newly married couple whose lives are disturbed by a returning Pontianak who seeks vengeance on the man who murdered her years ago. Malaysian actors Nur Fazura and Remy Ishak take on the lead as the titular role of the Pontianak and her on-screen lover.Whether it’s known as the Aswang and the Manananggal in the Philippines, Nang Nak in Thailand or Kuntilanak in Indonesia, the Pontianak is the epitome of evil in Southeast Asian ghost-lore. The first Pontianak film was released by Cathay-Keris in 1957 and struck gold in the box-office, resulting in Dendam Pontianak and Sumpah Pontianak. The trilogy became a cult favourite.Though separated by the causeway, Singaporeans and Malaysians have something in common: the love for horror. Cue the usual suspects: a small kampung (village) in Malaysia, highly religious and superstitious folks and a supernatural creature that haunts everyone for a living (or the undead). And Revenge of the Pontianak features all those essentials. With gorgeous settings and madness that surrounds the kampung, there’s no denying that the film slides between the lyrical and the chaos. But what tops it all of is the stunning visuals.If you’ve seen films like In the Mood For Love and Hero, it won’t come as a surprise that the cinematography for Revenge of the Pontianak stood out the most as the visual consultant behind it is none other than acclaimed Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Along with fellow cinematographer Jon Keng, the product is a visual dream. Each scene is painted in saturated colours that compliment each other, and the detailed art direction makes the film a work of art. While keeping the storyline an old-school classic tale of revenge, the palate of the film adds a contemporary tone that well brings out the emotions and scenes at play – whether its Mina’s bright red kebaya juxtaposed against the earthy tones of the club or the strikingly green and glossy leaves of the banana trees with silver smoke circling them. And what particularly works well is removing the usual white robe, unkempt hair and demon-like face. Instead, the Pontianak carries a piece of her human self – bright red kebaya in turn for a dirty white kebaya, bunned hair for long, shiny hair and brown eyes for yellow ones yet maintaining her original facial features – think well-preserved zombie.The plot and acting, while not as stellar as the visuals, are forgivable. The plot still follows the cliché, classic tale of revenge, and although it has been given a slight update (hello, feminism), it's subtle. Then again, a film about the vengeful spirit who dies with child or during childbirth should focus on nothing more than ice-cold revenge – after all, revenge is sweeter with a dose of justice. The acting, on the other hand, could have been more convincing by playing on facial expressions and actions rather than relying on the script.Asian horror, especially those that stem from Southeast Asian folklore, deserves more recognition and screen time. Revenge of the Pontianak allows us to celebrate that. And if we can celebrate the Pontianak trilogy in the 50s and 60s despite the lack of impressive special effects, we can do with this one. Plus, don’t we all just love a feminist icon?
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