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On 12 February 2019, Banglasia movie producers received official notification of approval from the board. After a six-year wait, Namewee and the filmmakers say they are relieved that the movie will finally make it into cinemas although they have had to make cut 7 scenes and do a reshoot to update the
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Southeast Asia at the Singapore International Film Festival held in December 2015, also at the New York Asian Film Festival and Osaka Asian Film Festival in the same year. In 2019, after several times of appealing,
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campaign seeking to raise USD 500,000 within 40 days to partially recoup their initial production cost of more than RM4 million (USD 1 million) so that they can afford to release the movie globally for free. Part of the funds would be used to pay for extra post-production editing, and qualified
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was officially declared banned. One of the reasons for the original version of the movie is being banned was that it portrayed sympathetically the gay lifestyle in
Malaysia. The Malaysian Home Ministry claimed that the film “accentuated negative sociocultural lifestyles such as lesbian gay bisexual
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Censorship Board of Malaysia had banned the original film version over scrutiny of 31 scenes that were deemed objectionable by the board. The original uncut version was shown in
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The trio, along with several other characters, have to survive the sudden invasion of the nearby fictional Luk Luk
Kingdom. The films touches and satires on social issues such as corruption, inequality, human trafficking, ethnic relations, and also cultural understandings between the characters.
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donors would receive their mentions of name in the front and end credits. Wee however failed to reach his accomplished goal as he confirmed on his
Facebook page where he only collected USD 186,468, which did not even reach half of his intended money needed.
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