After the runaway success of the Islamic themed film Ayat Ayat Cinta comes “Perempuan Berkalung Sorban”, based on the novel by Abidah el Khalieqy which was first published by the Yayasan Kesejahteraan Fatayat in Yogyakarta in 2001.
Starring everyone’s favourite girl next door Revalina S. Temat, who plays Anissa, the daughter of the leader of a traditionalist and very conservative Islamic boarding school (pesantren) in East Java.
Her father’s school, described as “salaf” or “salafiah”, teaches that knowledge must be based on the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah, and that modern works that have no such basis are not to be touched. Annissa struggles with this teaching and she believes that Islam, or her father’s version of it, does not treat women fairly.
Annissa’s opinions are ignored by all around as the musings of a little girl, except by the handsome Hanya Khudori (played by Oka Antara), a relation on her mother’s side. Annissa falls in love with him but Oka, mindful of the blood link and his relationship to the girl’s father, attempts to kill the romance and flees to Egypt to continue his studies.
Crestfallen, Annissa tries to go her own way by enrolling at a school in Yogyakarta but her father rages that an unmarried girl cannot go off on her own, and besides, at her new school she may be exposed to unIslamic teachings. Kyai Hanan, played by Joshua Pandelaky, decides to marry his daughter off to the son of another Salaf school, but it is an unhappy marriage and Anissa later learns that her husband, Samsudin (Reza Rahadian), is a polygamist.
Finally her first love Khudori returns from Cairo and their previously interrupted love is rekindled….
this film director by Hanung bramantyo
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