(GALA PREMIERE) Sesuai Aplikasi - A Nice Comedy Movie with a Touch of Drama

Last night me and my wife were quite fortunate to be among some of the people invited to the Gala Premiere of a comedy movie which would be shown in theaters next week. The movie had some well known stars playing in it and we were kind of hoping there would be some of them showing up so we could take pictures with them. Anyway, after the registration and ticket exchanges, we found out that the movie only start at 9.15 pm which was a surprise to us since the invitation mentioned 7.30 PM. Finally at 9.30 PM the movie started. So let's get on with it.

Brief Story Line (Spoiler Warning!)

Pras (Valentino Peter) and Duras (Lolox - Security Ugal-ugalan) were 2 childhood best friends who worked hard for a living as online ojek driver. Pras lived with his mother (Alicia Djohar) and had a girlfriend (Former Indonesian Idol Kamasean) whom he planned to marry, while Duras was financing his sister Monik (Meisya Amira) to be a doctor. With his good looks, Pras had some loyal customers including a famous Dangdut singer called Sofiyah (Titi Kamal - Mendadak Dangdut, Hang Out etc). Duras on the other hand, was not so lucky and had no choice but to borrow money from a loanshark called Ci Asiu (Dayu Wijanto - The Returning, Generasi Micin etc) for his sister's college fee.

(GALA PREMIERE) Galih dan Ratna - Re-imagining of A 1979 Classic Indonesian Movie

Last night, I was lucky enough that my wife had got access to the Gala Premiere of a new movie in Senayan City. Actually this was not the first time we went to such event, but it had been few years since the last time both of us attended a Gala Premiere of Indonesian movie. Anyway, by the time I finished dinner with my wife, we went inside the cinema to queue for registration and it was already filled with lots of people.  After having ourselves registered, we had to wait up to 7.15PM till the door to cinema 2 was opened. Then all of us went inside and chose the seats to our preference (yes, there was no seat allocation in this kind of event). My wife and I managed to get our favorite seats on the top row and we waited patiently till the brief introduction of the movie stars and crew and the film finally started at 7.45PM. So let us get on with the movie now, shall we?

Brief Story Line

Ratna (Sheryl Sheinafia - Koala Kumal) had to leave Jakarta and move to Bogor to live with her aunt Tantri (Marissa Anita - Selamat Pagi, Malam) since her father, Oka (Hengky Tornando - Saur Sepuh, Salah Bodi etc) had been assigned to work in Australia. Ratna had to adjust to a totally new environment of a different city and later on new school and new friends.