Couriers of Singana (2024)
| Couriers of Singana | |
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| File:CouriersofSinganaFilmPoster.png Film poster for Couriers of Singana | |
| Directed by | Hoanita Da |
| Distributed by | Jayban Productions |
Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Siniapore |
| Budget | 19 million |
Couriers of Singana is a 2024 Siniaporean crime drama film directed by Hoanita Da.
Plot
Biru Senin, a rice farmer, relocates to Metro Singana with his family in hopes of obtaining a higher quality of life after his rice crops are no longer profitable. While searching for a job, Biru is offered a low-cost room to rent. However, it is revealed to be a scam as the next day his family is evicted by the police from the apartment building for squatting. The family move into a vacant shanty house in the slums of the city, which is rife with criminal activity, while Biru secures a job as a security officer for Singana Armored Couriers after the other guards discover his military background.
On Biru's first day and night at work with his partner, Isnin, the two exchange stories; Isnin lost his previous partner during a failed robbery six months prior, Biru once worked in a silk factory with Atan bin Luncai, who was forced into armed robbery on a passenger airline, after losing his father and his family's silk factory to a rival company, to which he felt responsible for failing to stand up with his colleague, who ultimately perished after jumping off the plane.
Concerned about Biru residing in the slums, Isnin offers Biru a spare apartment unit in a middle-income part of Singana for his family to live in. Meanwhile, Kartini lands a job as a bar hostess at a nightclub in the Mastora district. While undergoing the mandatory physical checkup, she is revealed to be pregnant. When she fails to make her drink quota and her pregnancy becomes more evident, her boss proposes to have nine-year-old Elyas work for special clients. This prompts Kartani to storm out, vowing to seek a different route of employment.
During a routine job, after delivering their handouts to a rapper who happens to be a drug dealer, the duo have a tense discussion about corruption. When Isnin pulls over ostensibly for a toilet break, Biru suddenly sees a black car, who had been stalking them on the first day, pull over with a group of men heading toward Isnin's direction. Concerned, he exits the armoured van and follows the gang on foot to save Isnin, only to discover that they are in cahoots with Isnin.
Isnin reveals to Biru that he took one of the security boxes with him after the failed robbery, and he is plotting with the gang to have the box opened by staging a robbery and having himself "debriefed" in the company's processing centre while Biru makes an imprint of the key in another room, to which he would use to unlock the box himself. He also blackmails Biru into participating, threatening to frame him as the man who hid the security box in the apartment under their own name. The plan went wrong as Isnin realizes that the man in front of him is not part of the gang but the man who escaped when his former partner was killed; the man promptly kills Isnin and Biru is then given the grievous task of "postman", having to deliver Isnin's personal effects and severance pay to his wife, Ayu.
Upon learning that Isnin's wife is aware of the security box, Biru races back home and finds it under the floor. He and Kartini face the dilemma of what to do with the box as she tells him it was a mistake for them to move to the city. One night, after a delivery job, Biru sneaks into the processing centre and takes an imprint of the key while stealing another one; he was quickly caught on security camera and is shot and killed. Misled by the different key Biru stole, the company rushes armed men to the address of the drug dealer client while Muda, Biru's new partner, becomes the "postman" to deliver Biru's personal effects to Kartini. She notices a locket that Biru had stolen from a shop earlier that morning; upon opening it, she discovers a clay imprint of the key to the security box. After getting the key duplicated, she leaves the city with her children by bus, with a rucksack full of money that sits between her feet.
Cast
- Danial Demak as Biru Senin
- Maya Teh as Kartini Senin
- Saami Rida as Isnin Merdeka
- Sadi Mucha as Elyas Senin
- Yussu Nahm as Baby Senin
- Adi Agus as Raihaan
- Riyaal Husun as Atan bin Luncai
- Intan Selamat as Ayu Merdeka
- Putih Haron as Muda