Zan Azlee on Fat Bidin, Flirting, and Funding from Tom Yam

Zan Azlee, Super Duper Chief Inspector of Fat Bidin Media and local filmmaker, who also teaches Communication at HELP University College, previewed the screening of his film I’M MUSLIM TOO! Heading to the Border last Monday. According to Zan, he is “a Malay Muslim documentary filmmaker in KL who is a lazy cook, thus often heading to Tom Yam Kung stalls”.

Hearing about the South Thailand insurgency in Patani, and claims that it was supported by funding from Tom Yam Kung stalls based in Malaysia, he decided to investigate the inner workings of his usual dinner place, by heading all the way to the site itself. Here Zan “flirts with the local women at the hectic Patani market, prays at the 500-year-old Krue Se Mosque which saw a bloody massacre in 2004, visits a village where more than half the population has left for Malaysia, attends a pre-marriage course, and also drops by several ‘sekolah pondoks’”. He discovers the true sentiments of the Patani people and their attitudes toward all that is happening around them. Rachel Chan asks Zan a few questions.

I’M MUSLIM TOO! Heading to the Border will be released on ntv7 in September.
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