Challenge FINAS, Shuhaimi Baba or the authority to submit 'Tanda Putera' as an entry in any international film festival

The movie 'Tanda Putera' which costs taxpayers RM4.8 million in the making is said to be based on historical facts.

If that is so, then it has to be accurate and events that did not take place should not be featured in that movie.

Shuhaimi Baba, the movie's director, should not use 'creative license' as an excuse to insert imaginary scenes into the storyline because this is a historical movie and not a movie of the fantasy genre.

I challenge FINAS, Shuhaimi Baba or whoever the authority is to submit 'Tanda Putera' as an entry in any international film festival to see whether the foreign jury will vote for it to win any award.

Let us see whether 'Tanda Putera' can do the nation proud for the amount of money spent on it. Otherwise, for the description of 'Tanda Putera', the quote from Boromir from the movie 'Fellowship Of The Ring' is most apt: "What is this new devilry?"

Lim Lip Eng MP for Segambut