Last night I got the chance to watch a play call “Intan yang tercanai” (Polished Diamond) *I guess*. It was held at DBP KL. The play was written by Sastrawan Negara Noordin Hassan and directed by A.Wahab Hamzah.
Well actually it’s a story of a young man called Danial Sundaram who fell in love with a girl call Ungku Intan Anis. Danial actually doesn’t have a firm religion that he held. Though he hold up the kavadi (in an act to pay nazar), it’s upon request of his mum and just to make her feel happy. But still he is in search of faith and the truth in life. He even studied the difference and psychology of religion when he was aboard. Well that’s his story.
Meanwhile, Anis is a one of the nicest human being. She is very close to religion, do tons of charity work regardless the place (eg: Guatermala and even Africa) and yet very pretty. Because of her beauty and traits, a lot of people have ask her hand. But she decline. Anis went to perform the Haj, and that particular year the tunnel of Al-Mu’aysam collapsed upon hundreds of Muslims. Apparently she was in the tunnel then and was trapped and injured. As Danial heard the story, he immediately went to Mekkah in search for her. He was then a Muslim, right after 3 months of carrying the Kavadi. He convert into Islam wasn’t because he wants to marry her, but it was her traits that has shown him the way. He was amazed that a person so beautiful and nice could be driven to religion without question.
As Danial went there, he met Hj Fadzil who saw Anis trapped in the tunnel. Fadzil managed to wrap her head that was wounded. As the curtains fall, Danial kept seeing an image of Anis as Fadzil mention. Danial ran to her and realized she was gone into thin air. And so was Hj Fadzil. The mysteries that in Mekkah. Tons of weird things that has happened there and no one can explain.
“Jika mustahil pada yang tersurat, carilah pula yang tersirat”
-Intan Yang Tercanai-
This is what I think of the play. It’s actually not much of a love story. But more of the ones quest of searching the meaning of life. In search of love, he found religion instead. The play was filled with monolog. Not much dialog actually. Which is very unique. To make a play based on monolog alone, you need a good text that could catch the mind of the audience. The text is simple and straight forward. Well that’s the story.
Costume was very plain but they manage to make it work and synchronized with the play by the help of lightings. Imagine this, most of them were wearing white, but the beautiful color of stage light really helps to make it come to life. Sound and songs was superb. The lyric to the theme song will make you simply melt. Don’t know about you, but I was touched with the lyric.
Dihimpit cinta
Nurani jiwa
Yang tak terluahkan
Dengan kata-kata..
Dihimpit rindu
resah dikalbu
tak tertahan rasa menunggunya.
Song by Mohd Hafiz Askiak
Lyric by : Teka Voice (uitm)
Stage wise is very unconventional, because the use up the whole entire hall. No seriously. They had this ramp that jutted out from the stage. They even use up the places in between the audience. Like the play was in 3D. Owh my bad, it is on 3D. A bit interactive if I might say. Character building was good, it tells us a story from another person point of view.
Well actually it’s a story of a young man called Danial Sundaram who fell in love with a girl call Ungku Intan Anis. Danial actually doesn’t have a firm religion that he held. Though he hold up the kavadi (in an act to pay nazar), it’s upon request of his mum and just to make her feel happy. But still he is in search of faith and the truth in life. He even studied the difference and psychology of religion when he was aboard. Well that’s his story.
Meanwhile, Anis is a one of the nicest human being. She is very close to religion, do tons of charity work regardless the place (eg: Guatermala and even Africa) and yet very pretty. Because of her beauty and traits, a lot of people have ask her hand. But she decline. Anis went to perform the Haj, and that particular year the tunnel of Al-Mu’aysam collapsed upon hundreds of Muslims. Apparently she was in the tunnel then and was trapped and injured. As Danial heard the story, he immediately went to Mekkah in search for her. He was then a Muslim, right after 3 months of carrying the Kavadi. He convert into Islam wasn’t because he wants to marry her, but it was her traits that has shown him the way. He was amazed that a person so beautiful and nice could be driven to religion without question.
As Danial went there, he met Hj Fadzil who saw Anis trapped in the tunnel. Fadzil managed to wrap her head that was wounded. As the curtains fall, Danial kept seeing an image of Anis as Fadzil mention. Danial ran to her and realized she was gone into thin air. And so was Hj Fadzil. The mysteries that in Mekkah. Tons of weird things that has happened there and no one can explain.
“Jika mustahil pada yang tersurat, carilah pula yang tersirat”
-Intan Yang Tercanai-
This is what I think of the play. It’s actually not much of a love story. But more of the ones quest of searching the meaning of life. In search of love, he found religion instead. The play was filled with monolog. Not much dialog actually. Which is very unique. To make a play based on monolog alone, you need a good text that could catch the mind of the audience. The text is simple and straight forward. Well that’s the story.
Costume was very plain but they manage to make it work and synchronized with the play by the help of lightings. Imagine this, most of them were wearing white, but the beautiful color of stage light really helps to make it come to life. Sound and songs was superb. The lyric to the theme song will make you simply melt. Don’t know about you, but I was touched with the lyric.
Dihimpit cinta
Nurani jiwa
Yang tak terluahkan
Dengan kata-kata..
Dihimpit rindu
resah dikalbu
tak tertahan rasa menunggunya.
Song by Mohd Hafiz Askiak
Lyric by : Teka Voice (uitm)
Stage wise is very unconventional, because the use up the whole entire hall. No seriously. They had this ramp that jutted out from the stage. They even use up the places in between the audience. Like the play was in 3D. Owh my bad, it is on 3D. A bit interactive if I might say. Character building was good, it tells us a story from another person point of view.
mum said there are things that she can relate to in the content of the play. the thing is, i do feel the same. dont know which part of it though. but i suppose good plays and text brings out the best of us.
Well that’s about it. Don’t compare to my mum’s article, she a master in it. I’m just doing this for fun. Together let us support Malaysian performing arts and theater. BTYL (blog to you later)
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