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Censor's bite at `Pontianak'
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New Straits Times
06-23-2003
Censor's bite at `Pontianak'
Byline: Hafidah Samat
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Entertainment
Memo: (STF) - What's in a name? Controversy, it seems, when it comes to our sensitive censorship board. HAFIDAH SAMAT writes of the `trials' facing Suhaimi Baba's horror effort scheduled for filming soon.
SUNDAL, which literally means a tramp or a harlot, is a no-no as a movie title. We have been th...
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