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Bidasari is a 1965 Malay (Malaysian/Singaporean) black-and-white romantic-drama film starring Jins Shamsuddin and Sarimah. The film is notable as having dialogue that is written almost completely as rhyming poetry. The story is based on the very popular romantic Malay poem during 18th and 19th century in the Malay world, Syair Bidasari, believed to be written as early as 1750 A.D. (based on Kembayat Negara annals) and mentioned by Dr. J. Leyden in 1807 A.D. as Hikaiat Bida Sari (Bidasari Annals), which has some similarities with the western fairy-tale of Snow White that was published by The Brothers Grimm in 1812 A.D. of their fairy-tale collection book.
Bidasari is the final-installment of a trilogy of Filipino-language stage plays produced and written for Magwayen, the premier theater group of the University of the City of Manila. It was based on the original epic of the same name or title.
The epic love story originally graced the stage in 1999, and once again brought back in theaters in 2009.