IT LOOK LIKE director Yuthlert "Tom" Sippapak might have to permanently shelve his film "pitupoom" ("Fatherland"), two years in the making.
The producers fear the story about the insurrection i Muslim-Malay South is too sensitive and might incite further unrest, assuming that's even possible.
Tom doesn't appear downhearted, though, since he's still eager to build his own 100-seat Phet Chiang Khan cinema in Loei this year and needs to make more movies to screen there.
His current project is another nostaligic turn.
"'Pitupoom' took me back to the path of truth and I just want to keep doing things that are simple," he says.
So he's shooting a romantic comedy for M Pictures with an oddball title- "Took-kae Rak Pang Jung", which more or less means "Gecko Loves Pang Very Much".