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Date of Birth

7 January 1958, Bukit Treh, Muar, Johor, Malaysia

Date of Death

25 July 2009, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (brain hemorrhage)

Trivia

A retrospective of her first four feature films was held at the 2006 Tokyo International Film Festival.

Her films explored romance between members of different ethnic groups and religions, touching on the issues of parental abandonment, AIDS and gender discrimination, against the backdrop of Malaysia's ethnic diversity.

She started out as a copywriter. Subsequently, she became the creative director for an ad agency. She became known for sentimental TV ads that focused on family and religious celebrations uniting the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities in Malaysia with the Malay Muslim majority.