The son of the late Nik Aziz Nik Mat, Menteri Besar of Kelantan, Mursyidul Am of Islamist party PAS and a well-respected elder statesman during his political career, says he would be fine if famed filmmaker Aziz M Osman were to produce a biopic on his illustrious father’s life.
“We (PAS) welcome any attempt to highlight my late father’s accomplishments, in any medium,” Nik Abduh told Sinar Harian‘s Nizam Zain.
“One can only hope that whatever makes it onto the silver screen is historical,” he added.
“Get the facts right, don’t add or subtract so much that future generations will remember Tok Guru for things that never happened in his lifetime,” he said, referring to his late father by his popular nickname.
Nik Abduh, now the member of Parliament for Pasir Mas and the deputy chief of PAS Youth, was responding to fillmaker Aziz M Osman’s proposal to produce a biopic on the influential politican’s life.
“If I were to make a movie about Nik Aziz, I would focus on his struggle to educate Malaysians on the merits of hudud law,” he said last Friday.
Hudud is the codified set of Islamic legal principles whose introcution into the Malaysian framework has cuased quite a bit of controversy, with some quarters warning that implementing it would upend the country’s secular Federal Constitution.
