Tanda Putera (English: The Mark of a Prince) is a 2013 Malaysian Malay-language historical political drama film directed by Shuhaimi Baba.
You don’t say Bill Clinton was great but JFK was a loser.”[7][8] His co-host Johanan Sen observed on the production aspect of the film where its first half "looks like an unfinished History Channel special without voiceovers done or without any proper historians being interviewed.
"[7][8] Erna Mahyuni of Malay Mail, in a scathing commentary of the film that was widely circulated online, also stated of its seemingly lacking of a coherent narrative; with the ensemble cast's performance having "the collective expressiveness of IKEA furniture".
The performance of lead actor Rusdi Ramli in particular was derided for his "unconvincing" expressions and "forced" chemistry with co-actor Zizan Nin, the latter aspect coming across as "a parody of bromance".
[9] Erni further wrote that the movie appeared to have negationist undertones against the 1969 riots and it negatively portrayed the two statesmen protagonists "as pompous idiots who do not trust their wives".
[11] Further controversy was caused after there were allegations that the film's official Facebook page featured a picture of opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang being carried away by a group of uniformed officials with captions claiming that Lim had urinated on the Selangor flag in the house of former Selangor chief minister Harun Idris.