Papadom di panggung SEKARANG!!!

Papadom adalah cara saya untuk membawa ketengah satu masaalah besar kehidupan saya yang datangnya dari kelemahan diri saya yang sebenar. Saya takut untuk menjadi macam Saadom tapi cara Saadom bekerja di awal filem PAPADOM adalah saya. Apa yang saadom buat di pertengahan filem adalah apa yang afdlin shauki sanggup lakukan untuk anak dia.

Life is ultimately about balance. Life should be lived well spiritually and physically. These are the things that i still have not managed to achieve in my life. It's like knowing that smoking is bad for you but you cannot stop. I AM A WORKOHOLIC. i have a problem which stems from my passion to create and share my ideas with the world. I know i have I have to prioritize what is important to me but i am a person who believes that whatever i am doing and whomever i love are IMPORTANT. I wish that life was not that hard but i also realise that this is what life is about.

I am nobody special. I am just like you. I am just a man with a bunch of crazy ideas that i would like to see materialize into hopefully an entertaining piece of art. I DOn't know how long more i can keep this up though. I am not getting any younger and this business of trying to entertain people is very tough and taxing on my relationships and not too mention financially sapping especially living in Malaysia. I have to start thinking about my children and be there for them before they don't want me around anymore. They are my gems. What do i do???...

Gua agak confused dengan keadaan sekarang... tetapi gua masih mencari jawapan konflik hidup gua tu.


Papadom is my thoughts and my worst case scenario take on the matter.

Sebelum saya mengundur diri, sekali lagi saya nak mengulangi permintaan saya :

"Papadom berada di pawagam bermula hari khamis 8 hb oktober semalam. Saya ada satu Permintaan ikhlas kepada penonton papadom.Buat sesuatu yang luar Dari biasa. Lepas tonton papadom, jika anda menyukainya... SMS atau talifon bapa, ibu, isteri, awek, boyfren atau anak anda dan kata pada mereka yang anda sedang mengenang mereka dan anda sayang mereka. Anda Akan merasai sesuatu yang menakjubkan. Dan anda akan buat seorang budak gemuk teramat happy."


Power to the People. Love for all.

Afdlin Shauki

Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri!!

Ampun Maaf saya pinta seikhlas-ikhlasnya kepada semua yang pernah terasa dgn saya, yang kadang-kadang apabila saya penat, sibuk atau bersama keluarga tak dapat saya layan awak. Kalau ada yang terbelanja saya, terlupa bayar sesuatu di restoran atau kedai barangan runcit, halalkanlah! next time saya bayar lebih. Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri Kepada semua kawan-kawanku...... Sentiasa jaga keselamatan dan kesihatan. I love you all.

CUCI THE MUZIKAL ... Akan Datang!!

Kawan gua Hans Isaac telah mengambil keputusan untuk melakukan sesuatu yang berani, selepas kejayaan filem CUCI sekarang beliau mengambil keputusan untuk melaburkan wangnya di dalam teater muzikal CUCI. Jadi berikanlah sokongan padu kepadanya dalam usahanya untuk memperkasakan seni teater di Malaysia ini. Gerenti Terbaekk di Ladang dan di Lautan dalam.

Power to the People

Afdlin Shauki

GO WATCH SETEM!!... If you went already, PI LAGI!

Hi Kodoks of the world, its been a while since i've blogged, i guess primarily out of respect for Yasmin but today i write because the living needs to go on living and real life issues need to be handled. Mungkin ada yang dah pergi menonton filem setem dan rata-rata reviews yang di terima oleh Filem itu amat baik sekali. Ianya diikuti juga oleh kemenangan empat anugerah untuk filem itu di FFM 22 juga membuktikan yang itu adalah sebuah filem yang berkualiti.

Fight scene dengan bront palare.
Fun gila buat movie ni
Adala rasa macam action star sikit.

The problem is.... and still.... we need more people to go and watch because ticket sales is going really slow. Everyone who have seen it, has been saying great things about it and if you would like to see a seeminglessly inter-racial malay movie that doesn't look like all the other races was put in the movie just for the one malaysia effect, than this is it. A story well told by a great director and a good friend Kabir Bahtia. Kita AMAT memerlukan bantuan anda semua supaya sekurang-kurangnya filem ini pulang modal dan Kabir akan dapat terus berkarya lagi.

Personally, i cannot wait to see what kabir has in store next for us at the cinema, but whatever it is knowing kabir, i know its gonna be good.

So sekali lagi, saya memanggil semua kodok-kodok saya dan cekodok pun boleh jugak... pergilah tengok filem setem di pawagam SEKARANG! dan jika suka, ajaklah dan bagitahu kawan-kawan lain... Apa kata orang ... sharing is caring!!

ARE YOU AMERICANNN... ARE YOU AMERICAN?????

NO, NO, ACTUALLY I'M BRITISH....

OH .. IF BRITISH, COME... WE TAKE PICTURE... FATIMAH!! TAKE PICTURE FATIMAH!! YELLAH...YELLAH!


Sehingga ketemu lagi,

Afdlin Shauki
Power to the people

Kehilangan Yasmin Ahmad. Al-Fatihah!

My mind is so messed up right now, i have to write my thoughts down. At 12am sunday as i am having supper with my wife, Zahim, Pia and some friiends at the Esplanade in Singapore. I received an sms which was later confirmed by her brother that "Yasmin Ahmad had passed away".

I was dumbfounded. My mind felt numb. I knew that after the stroke happened, that things wasn't going that great, but her condition was stable. I wasn't ready for it.

Then it hit me, the magnanimity of the event which was just made known to me...

Today we have lost a great Malaysian.

Today we have lost someone who greatly loves her country and those who live in it.

Today we have lost a great voice of reason....

Today we have lost a mentor.... an inspiration ... a friend.

I use to tell Min that i wish i could be more like her because she was someone who always spoke her mind, especially in her films and being the kind person that she was, she always made you feel better by saying something nice about you. BUT truly to be like her, i believe is so tough especially in this time an era where a lot of people judge your film by the box office collection.Nevertheless, she didn't care, she stayed true to her stories... to how she wanted them to look like.

She told me she didn't want to do art films.... she wants to do mainstream so that the whole world could watch her stories

Some say she invited controversy.... but i feel her intention is more to get people to actually start a dialogue about the issues that she put forth. To get people to deal with issues which are normally swept under the rug. Among many local filmmakers i felt like she was the only mainstream director who had the balls to do that in quite a blatant straight forward manner, rather than colour coat some issues like me and some of my counterparts do.That is why she was special.

I was in Cannes recently and i went to the Singapore Media Development Authority booth and i saw that Yasmin Ahmad had two film projects that was being presented as a Singapore film project. I felt proud & jealous at the same time at what she had managed to achieve as a filmmaker in such a short time. She was truly gifted. But more so, i felt angry that such a talent was recognised more outside her home country rather than in it. I guess once again, in Malaysia, an artiste must die first before her / his work is truly recognised and by that time, it will be to late.

"Jangan bagi banyak sangat kat karyawan kita, nanti diorang besar kepala", maybe that is what is in our cultural belief system. Which is Fucked up. You watch... now that she has passed away.... her films will no longer be under scrutiny and all the unrelease-ables will become release-ables.

What i love about Yasmin was when she was excited to talk about her latest project, she was always drawing from personal experience and was so good at sharing it with us on celluloid. She loved making her films and she loved sharing it with us.

I cannot believe that Yasmin is no longer with us. She was an inspiration, a brave voice in our community and most importantly a kind kind soul. Semoga tuhan mencucuri rahmat ke atas rohnya. Saya harap rakyat Malaysia sedar yang kehilangan kita amat besar hari ini. She was just a friend, but i felt extreme sadness... emptyness at hearing of her passing. I am at a loss for words..

She gave a lot of budding filmmakers a break in the advertising industry (myself included) and always introduced us to all sorts of opportunities and possibilities. She recommended to get me to be the director of the Petronas commercial. Eventually, my first commercial. She shared resources, ideas freely with her friends because you are her KAWAN first before someone who works with or for her.

It was so easy to hear her say "Kesiaan ek!" from my experience of her because she was such a giving and compassionate person who was always cared for those who were in need or wherever an injustice had taken place.

In the film industry, i really looked up to her. As a friend i was really blessed that she let me be in her space. Even if it was a short while.

We will all be the poorer because of her passing.

I will truly miss you old friend... and i will truly miss all the films that you should have made..... you have touched my life and the life of millions, in ways you could never imagine. I thank allah for letting you be with us even if it was just for a while and i pray he takes good care of you, now that she has returned to you.

Till we meet again kind gentle soul.

Afdlin

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Gua tengah melepakkan diri ditepi pantai di Cannes.

Baru balik dari Cannes Film Festival di France dan ianya sangat terbaik..

IT made me fall in love with filmmaking all over again.

Tak sabar gua nak tengok filem ni... macam terbaikk jek

Ni jugak gua nanti-nantikan... Satu hari gua akan direct filem sebesar ini jugak. Insya allah.

No words can describe the atmosphere there except that if you are a filmmaker, you feel like you have come home... You feel apart of a bigger cause and purpose. You indeed feel special for being a part of the film fraternity.

Taman Permainan orang kaya eropah. Jahanam punya kaya.

Norman pun lepak kat cannes dgn gua. Dia ni gua respect la pasal memang consummate salesman... rajin dia berniaga.

Buat pertama kalinya, bendera MALAYSIA di layangkan di Palais di Cannes sewatu Cannes Film Festival. Aku melinang air mata penuh kebanggaan.

Minggu lepas baru pulang dari Bangkok dengan filem PAPADOM dan gua boleh confirmkan yang filem ini sudah siap 100% dan menunggu tayangan di panggung. Filem ini juga akan layak memasuki Filem Festival Malaysia Tahun ini kerana ianya akan sempat dimasukkan sebelum tarikh tutup penyertaan.

Tak lupa juga sempat pergi tengok kawan baik gua Adlin Aman Ramlie Berkahwin kat ipoh bersama Imelda.


Satu perkahwinan yang amat nostalgic dan indah sekali.Aku doakan diorang berkekalan ke anak cucu cicit dan seterusnya. So happy for them.

Raja dan Permaisurinya. Dayang yang sebelah kanan tu cun gila.
Mak mah tetap mencuit hati semua tetamu dgn gelagatnya yang tak pandai nak formal-formal katanya... my kind of gal.

Saw Harith and Douglas Lim do standup last thursday. They rocked NO BLACK TIE . Looking at them i realised how much I miss performing and how much i desperately need to perform. Insya allah CUCI THE MUSICAl which is coming up in October will provide an awesome return to the stage for me. I am excited to see how that turns out.

Perhentian Island Resort... terbaik di lautan.

Selepas lama gila gua tak pergi Scuba Diving akhirnya....

Dugong rempit menyundal kembali.

Gua dapat jugak bercuti berberapa hari untuk ke pulau perhentian.

Bersama berberapa gang jahanam yang lain. Ajip boy , Along Cham dan Gua.

Yang hebatnya gua dapat bercuti sambil bekerja.... (maknanya tak la cuti sangat) kerana untuk progam ek eleh gua, Jason Lo nak jadi Marine Biologist, jadi kita penuhi impian beliau.
Boroi Dive team yang penuh semangat ingin beraksi.

Walawei... gua dengan abg meor.

Tak sabar rasanya nak pergi diving lagi. Diving 4 life!!!!!!!

And now for something completely personal. My family is currently away in Sabah, now i personally have been away from my family from long periods at a time but i think this time i'm feeling the loneliness. My timing sucks i guess, when they are here... i have to travel and be away... but when i'm in town, they have to be awayThe guys at the office all have something to do. My production team is also busy doing other stuff And i just realised that eventhough i meet so many people, i don't have many friends. Hahaha. What a price to pay for being Me but this has been the life i Chose.

I feel i need a change. I must change and i will change.I am changing.

By the way something that i am very proud of, i have lost about 9 kilos for the last 4 weeks by changing my diet and starting some exercise. i am going to lose weight and i will be fit for cuci the musical.

If we believe, we can do anything.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Dalam kenangan mendiang Ah Boy yang banyak membantu gua dalam dunia perjalanan gua menjadi seorang pengarah. Gua amat menghargai persahabatanmu ketika kau bersama kita dulu. Rehatlah kawanku.

AFDLIN SHAUKI

Jangan Lupa Malam ni AIM ke 16!!!

Industri muzik adalah sesuatu yang amat dekat di hati gua. Gua di lahirkan dengan hasil muzik bapa gua yang merupakan seorang pemuzik jazz lama punya yang bermain keyboard dan piano. Penglibatan gua secara professional dalam industri muzik juga adalah sebagai Penyanyi. Menyanyi bersama Shiela Majid, Zainal Abidin, Allayarham Zubir Ali, Amir Yusoff, Azman Warren dan Prema Lucas. Di situ jugalah gua bertemu dengan member baik gua PACAI, bekas pemain bass ekamatra.

Pendek kata kalau industri muzik ini boleh menampung keluarga gua, mungkin gua tak masuk dalam bidang perfileman. Dan sebab itu juga semua filem gua, gua mengambil kesempatan untuk menulis sekurang-kurangnya satu lagu agar dapat melepaskan rindu terhadap dunia yang memang gua sayang sangat.

U-wei pernah berkata pada gua masa dia tengok gua perform at one of the clubs in KL dulu (sewaktu tu gua belum lagi terfikir pun nak jadi filmmaker), Apa you boleh capai sebagai pemuzik dalam 5 minit, aku perlukan 2 jam untuk menyampainya kepada penonton. Sekarang ni aku dah jadi macam dia.

Tapi fikirkan the POWER of a good song dan bagaimana ia boleh memberi efek kepada mood kita, keperibadian kita, serta semangat kita. Ia trbukti yang lebih ramai orang lebih minat mendengar muzik daripada ceramah. Sebab itulah kerajaan mengambil keputusan untuk ban lagu-lagu yang bersifat terlalu politikal, ekstremis serta boleh menyonsangkan .... tetapi malangnya kita punyai budaya yang tak suka menghargai apa yang kita suka, sehinggalah ianya tiada pada suatu hari nanti. Band-band seperti Meet Uncle Hussein, Hujan, Estranged dan banyak lagi akan pupus kerana tidak ada sokongan sepertimana band-band baik seperti Innuendo, VE dan banyak lagi. Jadi bila0 kita dah tak ada band-band ini barulah lengkap dominasi muzik luar dalam negara ini dan syarikat-syarikat rakaman gergasi di Malaysia ini akhirnya berjaya dalam objektif mereka yaitu untuk menjual artis-artis antarabangsa sahaja.

pada ketika inilah kita patut mencontohi industri muzik indonesia dan thailand yang walaupun apa berlaku, apresiasi mereka pada industri tempatan mereka amat kuat. We can do it too.

Beli muzik tempatan yang anda suka! jangan beli cetak rompak! Jangan muat turun secara haram, kalau betul minat sokonglah member-member gua dalam industri muzik. KITA BOLEH MELAKUKANNYA DAN BANGKIT DARI KEMELUT INI.

LOVE OUR MUZIK.

One Malaysia, POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Afdlin Shauki