Lambretta In The 60's Malay Film

The Roman Holiday has been a remembered film due to the appearance of Vespa especially in a several scene in that movie. The strategy of having Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn to ride Vespa in that film to portray the vehicle that has been used as a daily ride of the Italian in the city of Rome is really a romantic one. But far in the east, the Malay Film also applies this strategy to pull people to watch the Malay film and also to ride on the popularity of scooters as a mode of transport in that era. The film “Che Mamat Parang Tumpul” is the first film I guess, to use lambretta as a prop that reflect the durability, elegance and style. With the happy go lucky personality of “mamat” acted by Wahid Satay the reporter cum private investigator that has been given a task to investigate a triad group of “Kumpulan Tangan Hitam”, he ride lambretta in that film to move around to fulfill his task and later to destroy the sinful business of that triad group. As a fan of lambretta I really mesmerize watching this film as the song sung by Wahid Satay as a tribute to Lambretta LI series 1 make me want to sing along. You can watch this video when you click this adress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-Xg0shrf8

Wahid Satay make another appearence with Lambretta in the film "Dua Kali Lima". In this film Wahid Satay rode white Lambretta LI Series 2 with Siti Tanjung Perak, what make me laugh is that in this film you can see a camera trick where the lambretta scooter flip over 360 degrees at the end of the song sing by Siti Tanjung Perak. You can always view this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sex21GPT5Oo

Another film that also featured Lambretta as a prop is “Muda Mudi”, but the appearance of Lambretta in this film is not as prominent as the appearance of Lambretta in “Che Mamat Parang Tumpul”. In one of the scene in this film where a group of agogo band is playing their song by the sea side, several of their fans sitting on their lambrettas LI series 3 watching the band performs.

Vespa gain more popularity than lambretta later in the end of 60's and malay film featured more vespa than lambretta after the 60's era.