Chinta (film)

Chinta
Directed byB. S. Rajhans
Starring
  • Siput Sarawak
  • S. Roomai Noor
Music byZubir Said
Alfonso Soliano
Production
company
Distributed byShaw 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]

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

  • Siput Sarawak as Chinta
  • S. Roomai Noor as King Kanchi and Sanchi
  • Ja'afar Wiryo as Camban
  • Harris as Vidush
  • P. Ramlee as Putar
  • Suhara Effendi as Ruchi
  • Norsiah
  • Lelawati
  • Asiah Aman

References

  1. ^ Millett, Raphael (2006). Singapore Cinema. Editions Didier Millet. ISBN 981-4155-42-X.
  2. ^ a b 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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