Chris Chong Chan Fui Director of the Movie "Karaoke"
Clocking in at 75 minutes, the Malaysian film “Karaoke” is scheduled to be screened at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival this month. It’s directed by Chris Chong Chan Fui and this is his first full length film.
Best we can tell, the plot runs something like this:
The lead character is Betik. He snubbed his dad’s funeral a few years back which of course did not sit well with his mother. She felt betrayed by has absence. Betik decides he wants to turn his life around and build a future back home with his mother.
Betik takes on a day job shooting karaoke videos. At night, he tries to help his mother at the family’s karaoke bar downstairs. This is a karaoke hotspot where the local Indian estate workers, their families, and the Malay Muslim villagers next door gather and sing. It’s here that Betik meets a girl who seduces him with a future that he had dreamed about.
But nobody is as naïve as they seem and everybody wants something.
A story of love, betrayal, manipulation, deception and redemption. What more could you ask for in a movie about karaoke? Uhhh…maybe some karaoke? Have no idea if there is much singing, and since this is a Malaysian film, chances are they are not singing “Rhinestone Cowboy”. But we guess it’s another example of the continued popularity of karaoke throughout the world.
