Duyung

Duyung (English: Mermaid) is a Malaysian Malay-language fantasy romantic comedy film that was released on 6 March 2008.

It stars Saiful Apek as a kind-hearted man who encounters a mermaid, portrayed by Maya Karin.

Jimmy is a young man who spends his days cleaning the rubbish in the sea village that he lives.

After Jimmy returns to his floating island, he wakes up the next morning and finds that Puteri has left two boxes of treasure for him.

[7] The publishing company, Grand Brilliance Sdn Bhd targets a collection of RM10 million with a screening of 59 theaters across Malaysia, the largest number in the history of Malay movie.

[8] However, other filmmakers described the target as impossible as Saiful Apek's comedic habits and CGI's not so attractive.

1 minute trailers in Malay and English are distributed alongside 30 and 10 promotional clips while also in Malay and English have been aired on television Despite being screened during the election day, fearing to dump the visit to the cinema, however, during the first week of the show, Duyung filed RM2.7 million, ranked second on the weekly best-selling movie charts in Malaysian cinemas that week, only trailing 10,000 B.C Although the director of the film, A. Razak Mohaideen wants to get out of the habit of his earlier films that have got great criticism, the movie Duyung is said to be still not running away from the typical film director.

It has been adapted from Azhari Zain's original idea by KRU Script Panel and Meor Shariman.