A F1 Datuk. A Space Tourist Datuk. Now A Bollywood Datuk! Who’s Next?
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said the decision to confer the title on the actor was suggested to Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob by former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin recently.
Daim said it was a means to promote Malacca and the actor had shot a movie scene here several years ago.
The movie One 2 ka 4 was shot at the A Famosa Resort in Alor Gajah in 2001.
“This resulted in many people visiting Malacca. The award was given in recognition of this,” Mohd Ali said after the investiture ceremony in conjunction with Khalil’s 70th birthday celebrations.
Shah Rukh Khan was given the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM) which carries the title Datuk.
We have a F1 Datuk. A Space Tourist Datuk. And now a Bollywood Datuk! Who will be next? Walk down the mall, and half of the shoppers are “Datuks” and for whatever reasons only God knows.
How do you gauge the number of people visiting Malacca because of the movie? How many people actually visited Malacca after watching that movie since 2001? I can’t believe that these words come from a Chief Minister! And that’s the reason Shah Rukh Khan was bestowed the title of a “Datuk,” because the movie has brought many people to Malacca! Is that a joke? No offence to fans of SRK.
Then we should also confer the datukship to Jackie Chan, I believe he did also shot a couple of movies here. And also Chow Yuen Fatt and Jodie Foster for the movie “The King and I,” shot in Penang. And let’s not forget Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones who shot the movie Entrapment against the backdrop of the Twin Towers in 1999 (Quote from LKS). I believe these movies and many more are distributed to wider audiences worldwide than the SRK movie One 2 ka 4. So shouldn’t we also bestow the title of Datuk to them for promoting Malaysia?
And what has SRK contributed to Malaysia or Malacca? Was the proceed of the movie given to the poor, or the less fortunate? Or was it channeled to a foundation? NO! In fact the fans who paid good money to watch the movie contributed to SRK’s bank account! Made him richer! He has already received his reward.
There are more deserving Malaysians who put their blood, sweat and tears in making Malaysia a better place but yet no one recognise them. There are people who have given their whole life helping the disabled people, drug addicts, orphans, elderly people and the less fortunate. People who out of love, go to the streets and feed the homeless and destitute. Do we see them? Do we recognise their efforts? No! Instead we recognised SRK just because he shot a movie here and made tons of money for himself and we conferred to him a datukship. Because of him and the movie, many people visited Malacca! Another Malaysian joke by a Malaysian politician!
October 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Datukship is CHEAP nowadays. Nothing great! As I have said before, this title probably originated from China where “gong-gong” (a title given to eunuchs of the royal court) has been adopted by the locals when the famous Chinese admiral (Cheng Ho) who was himself a eunuch visited Malacca.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Since when those fancy title are given to great Malaysian in bolehland? They are not for Malaysian who contributed and sacrificed for the country, but those who can afford to pay including commission, hahaha…wake up Daniel! As an actor in bolehland, he probably can afford that. Have you forgotten the former “porn” minister also got one datoshit, it pretty much tell you what type of people will get the title in bolehland.