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Urduja the Movie is the latest and definitely the best animated film ever made and produced by Filipinos whose quality is comparable to animated movies made in Hollywood. Urduja is a full-length cartoon movie every Filipino will enjoy watching. I was really amazed with Urduja’s special effects. It’s quite different from earlier Pinoy-made cartoons like Panday and Captain Barbel.
The following is the cast of Urduja:
- Regine Velasquez - stars as Princess Urduja
- Cesar Montano - stars as Lim hang the lover of Urduja
- Johnny Delgado - as Wang
- Eddie Garcia - as Lakanpati
- Michael V and Allan K - as the comical Kutkut and Tarsir
For a short history of Urduja or Princess Urduja, legend has it that Princess Urduja was a 14th century woman ruler of the dynastic Kingdom of Tawalisi in Pangasinan, a vast area lying by the shores of the Lingayen Gulf and the China Sea. Pangasinan was an important kingdom then, and the sovereign was equal to the King of China. Known far and wide, Princess Urduja was famous for leading a retinue of woman warriors who were skilled fighters and equestrians. They developed a high art of warfare to preserve their political state. “These womenfolk took to the battlefields because the male population was depleted by the series of wars which came with the rise and prominence of the Shri-Visayan Empire in the sixth to the 13th centuries,” the accounts said. Strong and masculine physique, they were called kinalakian or Amazons.
The saga of this unique princess was the stuff of legend. Parents and teachers tell her story like they would a fairytale, or the biography of Gabriela Silang, an 18th-century revolutionary, or Tandang Sora, a granny who fed members of the Katipunan.
The legend of Princess Urduja can be attributed to the famous story of Mohammedan traveler, Ibn Batuta of India. In 1347 he was a passenger on a Chinese junk, which has just come from the port of Kakula, north of Java and Sumatra and passed by Pangasinan on the way to Canton, China.
Urduja, who had a particular fascination for the renowed “Pepper Country”–pepper being considered black gold then–was quoted by Batuta as saying, “I must positively go to war with that country, and get possession of it, for its great wealth and great forces attract me.”
For a time, feminists tried to revive the Urduja story but were discouraged to learn that Batuta’s account of the voyage to Tawalisi was labeled as either an intrigue or a fantasy. Scholars, considering the story absurd, declared Urduja a myth.
Watch the Youtube video of Urduja’s trailer here and see for yourself if the movie will not make a killing in the box-office.
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June 13th, 2008 at 5:32 am
I hope this will be the start of Filipinos creating more animated films. Quality animated films. Although Urduja’s visuals is still inferior compared to Disney’s 2D animated films or to the works of Anime masters like Hayao Miyazaki. But I expect to see big improvements in the coming years and who knows a Filipino might get a chance win an Oscar for “Best Animated Feature Film”.
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June 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Shamashu,
I hope so, too.
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