Famous Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai (梁朝伟) will be acting
as PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew in a Singapore film ‘1965′,
according to a report by Malaysian paper Kwang Hwa Daily.
The film is produced by Singapore’s Jia Le media company and is
jointly directed by Singapore director Li Tian Ren and Hong Kong
director Chen Ke Xin. Beside Leung, other internationally acclaimed
film stars include Maggie Cheung (张曼玉) and Julianna Moore.
It will reportedly cost about US$5 million dollars and
production will begin in the fourth quarter of this year. The
scenes will be shot in both Singapore and Malaysia and will be
released in time for next year’s National Day.
With Lee nearing his twilight years, the repressive PAP regime
has been trying ways and means to glorify his 54 years of
dictatorial rule over Singapore much akin to the films made by
communist China about Mao Zedong after his demise.
While it is not revealed if the regime has anything to do with
the film production, the historical research team behind the film
is likely to come from Singapore which will surely portray Lee as a
‘hero’ in attaining Singapore’s ‘independence’ in 1965.
Despite the massive propaganda campaign propagated and
perpetuated by the PAP regime over the years in Singapore’s history
textbooks to brainwash generations of Singaporeans into blindly
believing that Lee is the ‘founding father’ of Singapore, the
internet has helped provide the less known truth about the events
leading to Singapore’s expulsion from Malaysia in 1965 including
the use of the Internal Security Act to arrest and detain hundreds
of Lee’s political opponents.
It will be some time before Singapore history is re-written
again with newly declassified materials from the British archives
which will reveal the ‘other side’ of Lee Kuan Yew.
