Zarganar Plans Aung San FilmBy Min Lwin January 10, 2008
Burmese film director Maung Thura—better known as the comedian Zarganar—is writing a script for a movie he hopes will be made about the life of Burma’s independence hero Aung San.
Aung San, father of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, is a tabu subject in his native Burma, where successive regimes have suppressed any plans to honor him with a film biography.
Zarganar, who has repeatedly fallen foul of the present regime because of his iconoclastic humor and pro-democracy activities, told The Irrawaddy he wanted the film to be made by a foreign producer. He is anyway banned by the regime from film and video work.
“I am not interested in working with local producers,” he said. “I am going to show my script to international producers.”
Zarganar is, in the meantime, publishing his script on his Web site http://www.zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com/, inviting readers to contribute their input.
The scenario begins with the assassination of Aung San and 17 comrades on July 19, 1947, and then recounts his life in flashback.
“Aung San played a key role in Burma’s history and it can’t fade,” Zarganar said.
Burmese film director Maung Thura—better known as the comedian Zarganar—is writing a script for a movie he hopes will be made about the life of Burma’s independence hero Aung San.
Aung San, father of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, is a tabu subject in his native Burma, where successive regimes have suppressed any plans to honor him with a film biography.
Zarganar, who has repeatedly fallen foul of the present regime because of his iconoclastic humor and pro-democracy activities, told The Irrawaddy he wanted the film to be made by a foreign producer. He is anyway banned by the regime from film and video work.
“I am not interested in working with local producers,” he said. “I am going to show my script to international producers.”
Zarganar is, in the meantime, publishing his script on his Web site http://www.zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com/, inviting readers to contribute their input.
The scenario begins with the assassination of Aung San and 17 comrades on July 19, 1947, and then recounts his life in flashback.
“Aung San played a key role in Burma’s history and it can’t fade,” Zarganar said.
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