For your weekend viewing: The Making of E-dhathuru or How I Came to Love Media-Bashing
Posted By HilathABOUT THIS “DOCUMENTARY”:
Some of my friends call this “the anti-Hilath documentary” — and for good reason.
“The Making of E-Dhathuru” is a freely distributed 1-hour and 10-minute “documentary” thinly disguised as a behind-the-scenes look at the feature film “E-Dhathuru” but which in fact is a bashing of Maldives’ journalists and media by some Dhivehi filmmakers and musicians who cannot digest critical reviews of their productions.
More insight about this “documentary” can be found from these two articles by me and the accompanying comments, some of them left by some Dhivehi filmmakers themselves on my blog:
WHEN THE TEASER FAILS TO TEASE
PART 1 OF 7
PART 2 OF 7
PART 3 OF 7
This is the part where the “stars” of this “documentary” start to directly mention journalists’ names.
In this part, for the first time, my name is mentioned along with Mohamed “Riverin” Rafeeu, who at that time wrote a critical review of “E-Dhathuru” in “Udhares” weekly magazine. Rafeeu is now with Jazeera Daily.
In this part, Golha Ali Rasheed tells outright lies about me and makes it sound like that I was a dictator not a reporter!
Without mentioning my name, Amjay attacks my “Degree”!
PART 4 OF 7
More direct acts on Rafeeu for his “Udhares” article and me for my “Haveeru” article.
Hussen “Sendil” Adil alleges, without naming names, that journalists were becoming biased against certain films when they themselves started getting involved in film business. At the time, Haveeru Daily’s reporters Ismail Naseer and Moosa Latheef had commissioned Abdul Fathah to direct “Himeyn Dhuniye” based on a story and screenplay by Moosa Latheef.
PART 5 OF 7
My exact words were that the film’s photography was so poor “as if” the film was shot with a handicam though Eupe here twists words to allege that I had wrote that the film was shot with a handicam. He should learn the meaning of “as if” without making a fool of himself in front of the public.
Amjay attacks “Udhares” for its critical reviews of his films “Dhon Kamana” and “Sandhuravi Rey”.
He also alleges I had “something personal” against Eupe. I wonder what it could be.
Amjay flails his arms wildly in anger, then realises it, and attempts to calm down and regain his composure. More classic than any scene from a Dhivehi film!
PART 6 OF 7
Without naming me directly, Ahyuman emphasises that his “20 years” in music makes him “the better professional” than my lesser “9 years” in journalism!
Journalist Gulhi Shareef, who earlier was in “Aafathis” daily, Haveeru’s bitter rival newspaper then, attacks Haveeru’s Moosa Latheef, without directly naming him, for “conflict of interest” for getting a film (“Himeyn Dhuniye”) made on a screenplay of his.
PART 7 OF 7
Eupe says Haveeru’s Ismail Naseer and Udhares’ Rafeeu refused to be interviewed for this “documentary” and calls them “cowards.” Why should any sensible reporter take part in a “documentary” on media-bashing?
Without naming me directly, Noor confuses my positive critique of Fathimath Nahula’s “Kalaayaa Nulaa” and another article in which I, however, raised Dhivehi film industry’s allegations of corrupt practises behind then Maldives Association of Performing Arts’ (MAPA) in making “Kalaayaa Nulaa”. Two totally different matters, Noor!
This is way better than the film. Disappointed that i couldn’t find Writer Mohamed Gasim’s interview anywhere in these videos. He himself told me, Yuppe did a disappointing job making a movie on his novel.
i agree u hilath, Eupe doesn’t understand fully the multimedia, though he had acted in few melodramatic songs.he still need to learn alot in order to direct a film, its not something very easy to direct feature film. Eupe stop directing film as you are not capable of it.