![]() It is easy to sympathise with his character, knowing that his confident pose is just a façade hiding his despair. ![]() Not forgetting Faizal Hussein who also did a great job in portraying two different personas, one as a desperate father seeking for help to find his daughter, the other as a confident lawyer who shows no mercy when in the middle of a court battle. Every scene involving Umie Aida is fun to watch because of her character’s unexpected personality. ![]() ![]() She perfectly balances Diana’s bipolar characteristics, switching from being seductive to lure her victims, to showing her evil possessed-like manner when she holds her ritual. Umie Aida, who plays the titular role of “Dukun”, which means shaman, stole the show completely with her outstanding performance. As the two meet to discuss about Diana’s trial, she reveals that she practices black magic and offers a deal to help search for Karim’s daughter using illegal mystical methods. While searching, he is assigned to defend an alleged murderer, the seductive yet sinister Diana Dahlan (Umie Aida), in court. “Dukun” centers on Karim (Faizal Hussein), a lawyer who is in a desperate search for his lost daughter who went missing after an argument. After a long wait, 12 years to be exact, Dain Said’s first feature movie “Dukun” is finally showing in Malaysian cinemas.
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