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Pisau Cukur
''Pisau Cukur'' (Malay: " Razor Knife", but also metaphorically "Gold Digger") is a 2009 Malaysian mystery comedy film directed by Bernard Chauly, which is his first comedy after his 2005 blockbuster break-out drama '' Gol & Gincu''. It stars popular Malaysian actresses Nur Fazura and Maya Karin, and also Singaporean actor Aaron Aziz. Plot "Pisau Cukur" is about two best friends Bella (Maya Karin) and Intan ( Nur Fazura) who goes on a vacation in a cruise ship. During the vacation, Bella searches for a rich husband, while Intan is involved in a murder case of a well known Datuk. Development A collaboration by Red Films and Primeworks Studios, the movie is written by Rafidah Abdullah (host of TV3's teen-oriented current affairs programme ''3R'' and writer for ''Gol & Gincu''). She has contributed towards a movie that is bound to create controversy among certain quarters. However, as the director has told the press, "People should watch and value the movie themselves because a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazura
Nur Fazura Binti Sharifuddin (born 27 September 1983), better known as Fazura, is a Malaysian actress, singer, television Host, VJ and entrepreneur. She began her career in the Malaysian entertainment industry by hosting a television show and several minor acting roles. She was the host of a television show called ''Teens World''. In 2004, she launched her film career by playing the leading role in ''Bicara Hati'' which became her break-out role and earned her an award nomination. Later in 2005, she starred in the film ''Gol & Gincu''. Up to 2010, she has done more than 10 featured films and countless hit TV series and dramas as well as hosting a number of television program. Early life and education Fazura was born in one of the rural province at Pekan, a town in the state of Pahang in Malaysia. She is the third of four siblings, and has three brothers. Her father died on 14 September 2000. She enrolled at a Fashion Design College and studied fashion for a while before qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liyana Jasmay
Liyana binti Jasmay (born 28 March 1988) is a Malaysian actress, singer, producer and director. Career Jasmay's first acting role came in 1997 when she was only nine years old in a TV drama called ''Si Lembik''. The story is similar to the Hollywood film ''The Little Rascals'', where little kids play the roles of adults. It was produced and directed by Aznil Hj Nawawi. Over the years, Jasmay has made herself a household name by acting in numerous TV drama and TV series including Dendam Terlerai, Balqis, Orang Kasar, Cinta Sempadan, Najwa, and Cinta Si Rempit. She then made her first silver-screen role in a highly promoted film ''Castello'', where she starred alongside Rosyam Nor. The role earned Jasmay her first Malaysian Film Festival 2006 nomination for the Best New Actress Award. Her career soared and she won a Best Actress Award for Malaysian Film Festival 2009 for her role in the film ''Papadom'' and a Best Actress Award for her role in an indie-gone-mainstream film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Malaysian Films
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malay-language Films
Malay (; ms, Bahasa Melayu, links=no, Jawi: , Rencong: ) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of the Philippines and Thailand. Altogether, it is spoken by 290 million people (around 260 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named "Indonesian") across Maritime Southeast Asia. As the or ("national language") of several states, Standard Malay has various official names. In Malaysia, it is designated as either ("Malaysian Malay") or also ("Malay language"). In Singapore and Brunei, it is called ("Malay language"). In Indonesia, an autonomous normative variety called ("Indonesian language") is designated the ("unifying language" or lingua franca). However, in areas of Central to Southern Sumatra, where vernacular varieties of Malay are indigenous, Indonesians refer to the language as , and consider it to be one of their regional langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being '' New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Chauly
Bernice Chauly (born 1968, Georgetown, Penang) is Malaysian writer, poet, educator, festival director, actor, photographer and filmmaker. Biography Born to Chinese- Punjabi teachers, she read Education and English Literature at the University of Winnipeg, Canada as a government scholar. She is the author of seven books, which include poetry and prose; going there and coming back (1997), The Book of Sins (2008), Lost in KL (2008), the acclaimed memoir Growing Up With Ghosts (2011) which won in the Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2012 in the Non-Fiction Category, Onkalo (2013), her third collection of poems which Nobel laureate J.M Coetzee has said is "direct, honest and powerful", Once We Were There (2017) published by Epigram Books, Incantations/Incarcerations (2019) published by Gerakbudaya. In 1998, she began organising literary events in Kuala Lumpur and in 2005, founded Readings, the longest-running live literary platform in Kuala Lumpur. In 2011, she was Festival Dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Ahmad
Ahmad Nabil Ahmad, also known as Nabil Ahmad, Nabil Raja Lawak, and simply Nabil (born 26 September 1983) is a Malaysian entertainer, comedian and actor. He worked as a motorcycle courier before winning the 2008 season of comedy competition '' Raja Lawak''. Nabil has since won an award for hosting multiple television programs, beginning with ''MeleTOP'' in 2012, which he still hosts. He further expanded his roles by becoming a producer in 2017, and a film writer and director in 2018. Early life Ahmad Nabil Ahmad was born on 26 September 1983, in Seremban, the capital of the state of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. In 2008, Nabil was working as a motorcycle courier in the small town of Mambau, earning RM600 (about US$143) a month, when he was transferred to Kuala Lumpur for work. As a prank, the friend he was staying with signed him up for an audition for '' Raja Lawak'' (''King of Comedy''), a Malaysian television reality show that searches for comedic talent. Nabil did not have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afdlin Shauki
Dato' Afdlin Shauki bin Aksan (born 19 May 1971) is a Malaysian producer, screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter, and television presenter and politician. Career Music A singer, musician and live performer Afdlin, together with his band Acid Iz, presents a flavour of R&B, acid jazz and funk. His debut album ''FUUYO!'' was released in late 2003. In 1992, he performed for an audience of 50,000 in the 'Ikhlas Concert' alongside Zainal Abidin and Sheila Majid among others. He has performed in one of the most respected jazz clubs in Europe such as Ronnie Scott's, as an opening act for Sheila Majid for her 1996 UK Tour. He also made a guest appearance with David Foster's protege Jordan Hill for her 1997 Malaysian tour singing 'Till the end of time'. He won the Best Ethnic Pop song category at the Anugerah Juara Lagu ke-19 in 2005 for a song he wrote for Dayang Nurfaizah called 'Erti Hidup'. Television Afdlin has been working as an actor, director and TV pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Golding (actor)
Henry Ewan Golding (born 5 February 1987) is a Malaysian-British actor and television host. Golding has been a presenter on BBC's ''The Travel Show'' since 2014. He is known for his film work, playing the role of Nick Young in ''Crazy Rich Asians'', the title character in the action-adventure '' Snake Eyes'', Sean Townsend in the thriller '' A Simple Favor'', and Tom in the romantic comedy ''Last Christmas'', the latter two directed by Paul Feig. Early life Golding was born in Sarawak in the district of Betong, Malaysia. His mother, Margaret Likan Golding, is a native-born Sarawakian of indigenous Dayak Iban ancestry. His father, Clive Golding, is British. The family lived for almost five years in Terengganu, before moving to Surrey, England, when Henry was eight years old. There he went to The Warwick School, Redhill. He moved to Kuala Lumpur when he was 21 to pursue on-camera roles after working as a hairdresser on Sloane Street in London for a couple of years. Career In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmin Yusoff
Yang Hormat Dato’ Yasmin Yusuff (born 1955), better known by her stage name Yasmin Yusuff, is a former beauty queen, veteran actress and singer in Malaysia. Yasmin is one of the few well-known Malay pageant contestants who won the Miss Universe Malaysia title back in 1978, she competed in Miss Universe 1978. Career Yasmin is a Malay song singer and senior radio presenter. She has released two albums, Yasmin (1979) and Harapan (1981), and acted in TV dramas and movies. Among her films are ''Mekanik'', ''Selubung'', ''Ringgit Kassorga'', ''Gol dan Gincu'', ''Susuk'', ''Hooperz'' and ''Pisau Cukur''. She has been involved in producing ''Cuci the Musical 1'' and ''2'', and ''Lat Kampung Boy the Musical''. She has also been the owner of a casting agency since 1986. Due to her mellifluous voice, she was roped in to do voice-overs for countless radio and TV advertisements. She was a part-time announcer for Radio 4 for 13 years till 1999, before joining Rediffusion and Encorp. Yusoff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharifah Sofia
Sharifah Sofia binti Syed Hussein (born 28 July 1985), better known by her popular name Sharifah Sofia, is a Malaysian actress. Early life Sofia was born in Liverpool, England, the third child out of four siblings. She is the elder sister of footballer Syed Adney. She grew up in Liverpool until she was 9 years old. She has mixed parentage, her father is Malaysian and mother Scottish. She graduated in 2008 from Sunway University College where she was seeking a degree in performing arts. Personal life Sofia married in 2009 but she and her former husband has divorced in 2019 and now has two children. She also change her style with wearing hijab and now she also learning Islam deeply. Filmography Film * ''Gong'' (2006) * ''Cinta Yang Satu'' (2007) * ''Orang Minyak'' (2007) * ''Pisau Cukur'' (2009) * ''Berani Punya Budak'' (2012) Drama * ''Gol & Gincu The Series'' as season 2 episode 8 guess artist (2007) * ''Nur Kasih ''Nur Kasih'' (Malay: 'Light of Love') is a 2009 Malaysia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Karin
Maya Karin Roelcke (born 29 October 1979) is a Malaysian film actress, television host and singer, known for ''Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam'', '' Anak Halal'', ''Ombak Rindu'' and ''Munafik 2''. She holds the Malaysia Film Festival record for the actress with most nominations in the category of Best Actress Award (11), and is among the few actresses who have won the award twice. She is also the first of only two Malaysian actresses to have won the prestigious Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. Early life Roelcke was born in October 1979 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, West Germany. She is of German, Malay, Chinese and Indian Muslim descent. Her father is from Germany and her mother is from Penang, Malaysia. She lived most of her teenage years in different parts of Indonesia, finally ending up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia when she was 17. She is the oldest of three siblings. She graduated from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology Kuala Lumpur in Media and Marketin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
