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Podcast: The Goggler Podcast
Episode: The Goggler Podcast #708: Mencari Ramlee
Description: Today, on The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review Megat Sharizal’s directorial feature debut, the period drama, Mencari Ramlee.
Mencari Ramlee is now showing in Malaysian cinemas.
It is now 1970s in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian screen icon P. Ramlee has just passed away at 44 and his art has already been declared old-fashioned. Destitute and deep in debt, small-time performer Zakaria is offered a lifeline by his loan shark, Yusef: impersonate the late Malaysian screen icon to entertain his homebound sister, who believes she lives in the 1950s. This unlikely scheme allows Zakaria to...