Film on Barack Obama’s childhood premieres in Jakarta
By ANIThursday, July 1, 2010
LONDON - Film based on Barack Obama’s life as a child in Indonesia is being premiered in the capital Jakarta.
‘Obama The Menteng Kid’, based on a book, is a fictionalised biography of the boy who became the US president.
The title of the film refers to the Jakarta neighbourhood where the US President lived and went to school for four years.
Scenes of a young Obama reciting the Koran with Muslim pupils have not been included.
Even the scenes of the future US president - a Christian - were dropped after they were termed as “too political”.
Producer Raam Punjabi said the film was meant to send a message of hope and not religion.
“We wanted to make the movie from the point of view of the children. We did not want to enter into politics. We did not want to enter into religious matters,” the BBC quoted him as saying.
“The message is about the friendship, about the determination, about reaching the sky and that is the sole message of this movie,” he added. (ANI)
