Opening Night event – meet stars from JAGAT, the opening night movie
JAGAT / BRUTAL
Malaysian | 86 mins | 2015 | Drama
Director: Shanjhey Kumar Perumal
Screening: 8 & 12 July
Venue: MBO Imago Mall
Synopsis and Director’s Comment:
Set in the early 1990’s, a critical period in Malaysian Indian history, the story subtly underlines the plight of the Malaysian Indian. Forsaken by the estate owners who had employed them for generations and systematically marginalized, they are forced to move to the cities and survive under harsh circumstances. Left out of the nation’s urbanization and development plans, many live in squatter settlements and work for minimum wages. The plot centers on a bright but mischievous 12-year old boy, Appoy, and his relationship with his father, Maniam, and his uncles, Bala (an ex drug addict) and Dorai aka Mexico (a local gangster).
JAGAT/ BRUTAL is an autofiction movie of my own self growing up in a squatter area post rubber estate dislocation. It is very important for me to document this particular era.
