Yasmin Napper And Arbani Yasiz Express The Reason Thaghut Is A New Title Of Qibla

The actors of the film Thahut (Tari/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Kiblat film, which was in controversy, has a new title, Thaghut. The film, directed by Bobby Prasetyo, has undergone a reshuffle to keep it broadcast theatrically.

The players were aware of this controversy and thought they had no intention of blasphemy against religion as netizens accused.

Previously, netizens gave resistance to the Kiblat film because the trailer and poster were considered blasphemy. The poster features someone praying upside down. Now they changed their name to Thaghut with a different poster too.

"Why do we change it from the title Qibla? As you know, it was a controversy and many disagreed even though we have no intention of offending any religion," Yasmin Napper told VOI today, Tuesday, July 23.

"But this was replaced for the common good, because I was afraid that Qibla (according to) netizens would feel rude with posters playing prayers and religion. So it's better to replace it," he said.

Arbani added that from the start they knew Thaghut's story which was the reason why they joined the production.

"Approximately the same as Yasmin, only from the beginning of the process we read, if we know there are things that deviate from religion that we cannot possibly be here," said Arbani Yasiz.

"But back again the opinions of netizens who have not watched it even though there is no charge at all, but yes, why did we change it in the end because we received all the criticism from all aspects of netizens," he continued.

From the start of the poster, we didn't have any intention of going that way. We also cut the scenes (protes) from the film from the start until it was changed, to be honest, the intention was good to straighten out the turn," said Yasmin Napper.

Thahut tells the journey of a girl named Ainun who is looking for a biological father who has never cared for her. Abah Mulya, a figure who Ainun admires because she has various special powers from a magic Padepokan in Suwung Earth Village, turned out to be her biological father who had been hidden by Uwak who had raised her. Accompanied by her friends, Bagas and Rini, Ainun came to Abah Mulya's Padepokan to perform. The mysterious death of Abah Mulya finally made Ainun enter into a heretical teaching given by Lingga, Abah Mulya's student.

The film Thaghut will hit Indonesian cinemas starting August 29.