Spilt Gravy on Rice

This movie has been teased and delayed for so long, it's not even funny. 

I've read the play (just not recently), but I haven't seen a staged production, so I went in kinda blind? I vaguely remember some things (particularly a big reveal of a supporting character), just not the denouement.

Because of reasons, it's also being screened in some cineplexes around the nation, so luckily they released the list of where it's being played. None of the TGVs in PJ are screening this, but luckily there were a few GSCs I could pick from to watch. Only went with Paradigm because 3 Damansara's screening was at 7.15 p.m. wtfbbq 

There were fewer than 10 people watching (there was a large-ish group who came in kinda late, which I had to question whether they were being fashionably late or what), one other guy and then me. Luckily the seats in the hall were kinda nice and that the ads and trailers were only about 15 minutes long. 

From IMDb...

The story revolves around the central character of Bapak, an ageing, polygamous, British-educated, Malay, Muslim, retired journalist, patriarch, who realises he doesn't have much time left on Earth and so invites his five children to have dinner with him to discuss some unresolved family matters with them, including who will inherit his house, their childhood home, an old decaying mansion, set in an acre of lush garden in the centre of the rapidly developing capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

• Jit Murad and Harith Iskander playing the angels (?) or Death, hanging around the house, waiting to pick Bapak up all day, it seems. I doubt that they were technically "angels" of death per se because it would be a weird sight gag if they were there every time someone said "malaikat lalu", and going by what they said to Bapak as they were leaving...the suits were a nice touch
• Sneezing is the key. 
• I get that Bapak can see the "malaikat" because he was dying, but how could the maid? 
• This movie has the who's who of the KL theatre/entertainment scene scattered all over. I laughed so hard when I saw Jo Kukathas with that purple wig. I also kinda recognised a blurred Gavin Yap in there too. 
• I highly doubt that the house the movie was set in is still there now, in 2022.

It was bittersweet watching this - yay that it's finally released after so many years, but kinda sad that it took so long in LPF hell. NGL, I cried towards the end when everyone was saying their goodbyes to Bapak (by him possessing them in turns to wind things up was kinda funny). 

Was it worth the 11 year wait? I think so. I still wished I could watch the version the Censorship Board objected to all those years ago, but hey. 

Go watch it while it's still in cinemas.