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As a traditional music, Tarling Dangdut is very much loved as well as denounced for being obscene. The film tells a story of a Tarling Dangdut songwriter who loves being promiscuous but trying to serve an order to write religious Tarling dangdut song. TARLING IS DARLING is a musical documentary film that was treated as an entertaining feature film. It was shot with a very intimate approach to all of its characters, using a single-shot-cinema technique. The audience will be brought to the most riveting and indecorous private events of its characters.

 

 

The traditional ‘tarling dangdut’ music of Indramayu, an area on the Java island in Indonesia is famous among all ages because of its erotical dances and skimpily-clad singers. For a long time, this was a disgrace for muslim leaders who wanted to get it forbidden.

 

Jaham, tarling dangdut songwriter, and Ipung, music producer, recruit and launch new talents who dream of being famous. Surrounded by young women, nonetheles, drives Jaham’s wife to jealousy and illness.

 

But the real challenge for Jaham comes from clerics who wants him to write Islamic Tarling Dangdut songs. With the help of an erotic singer, Jaham writes down his religious pieces.

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