Chinta (film)

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Chinta
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Siput Sarawak (left) and S. Roomai Noor (right) in Chinta
Directed by B. S. Rajhans
Starring
  • Siput Sarawak
  • S. Roomai Noor
Music by Zubir Said
Alfonso Soliano
Production
company
Distributed by Shaw Brothers
Release date
  • 31 October 1948 (1948-10-31)
Countries
  • Singapore
  • Malaya
LanguageMalay

Chinta (Malay: Love) [1] is a 1948 Singaporean Malay-language black-and-white romantic drama film directed by B. S. Rajhans and produced by Malay Film Productions. It was released on 31 October 1948. [2]

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Chinta was the first Malayan film released after the declaration of the Malayan Emergency, and also marks the first screen appearance of P. Ramlee. [2] Ramlee also performed as a playback singer in the film, providing vocals in five songs for the lead actor S. Roomai Noor. [3] It is the oldest surviving film of Malayan cinema.

Plot

A boat is caught in a huge tempest and sinks. Only King Kanchi (S. Roomai Noor) survives. A few fishermen find him on the shore and rescue him. The love story begins when Chinta (Siput Sarawak), a young village girl, takes care of him.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Millett, Raphael (2006). Singapore Cinema. Editions Didier Millet. ISBN   981-4155-42-X.
  2. 1 2 Amir Muhammad (2008). "Love in the time of Emergency". Tell Magazine (January).
  3. ↑ Poshek Fu, ed. (2019). China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema. University of Illinois Press. p. 158. ISBN   9780252075001.

(in Malay)


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