PRODUCTION NOTES

Chalanggai portray some of the social, cultural and economic conditions of Malaysian Indians who struggle to keep up with the rapid growth of developing Malaysia. The film is set in Brickfields, an Indian street at the heart of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

Subtly, the film shall look into the aspects of urban living social issues of the ethnic Indians such as education suppression, unemployment, dysfunctional family values as well as racial segregation that most Malaysian Indians encounter in their daily lives.

The film is a cry that hopefully would create a sense of history, self-rediscovery and an inspiration to all Malaysians. It also intends to be a reminder to the younger generation of the hardship and treatment endured by their successors.

“A race of people is like an individual man: until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its history, expresses its own culture and affirm its own selfhood, it cannot fulfill itself” – Malcom X

Chalanggai (Dancing Bells) is a community film of family, hope and dreams.