Other views suggest that Ramlee was poached and enticed to return to Malaysia which he did in 1964. Wrong step it seems. All promises in Malaysia were not kept by his new masters. Sounds very, very familiar here. Merdeka studios was poorly equipped and its rookie staffing meant the legend had to multitask which ended up eventually in him churning out shoddy movies. All 18 movies he directed in Malaysia flopped. Sounds like the same stories we hear from some of our Malaysians trying to return home from overseas. Ramlee lost his glitter, his money and his fame. His partner and colleague, HM Shah, tried to form a company called Perfima to enable Ramlee to relaunch his career and produce his dream of colour films. But Perfima apparently ended up in the hands of inexperienced and connected cronies leaving the talented Ramlee then, as in now, even as a Malay, blatantly unrecognised, ignored and out in the cold. The documentary brutally exposes how Ramlee tried in vain to set up P Ramlee productions, but was again shut out by this countrys media and entertainment industry including RTM. staroba.my/malaysia/718-pramlee-a-tragedy-that-no-talent-corp-could-have-saved.html
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:29:17 +0000
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