The same year Shaw's Malay Film Productions released P. Ramlee's Penarek Becha, they also produced this melodrama centred around another humble trishaw driver. Like Ramlee's film it was co-written by young literary upstart Jamil Sulong (who later became a director). Similar issues around class, wealth and modernity are explored through the tale of a kindly older trishaw driver (Omar Rojik) who adopts Jamilah, an orphan and marries her guardian, offering her a simple but better life (including a very, very long visit the circus). As the years pass Jamilah pulls away from her impoverished kampong life towards a world of motor cars and monied families, while kind Omar's health is failing. A classic slice of social-realist melodrama.
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Insan was released in 1955 and has generally received negative reviews.
Online reviewers have written 1 reviews, giving Insan (1955) an average rating of 40%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 20%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Insan than critics were.
With a score of 40%, Insan is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1955, which stands at 60%.
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