There he becomes embroiled in a conflict between an innocent girl and the human trafficers that would sell her into slavery.
In the film, Uwais portrayed ‘Yuda’, a skilled practioner of Silat that leaves his family’s rural farm for a pilgrimage to the streets of Jakarta. The film took its name from a centuries old Indonesian rite-of-passage. “But six months down the line we were back and in pre-production on Merantau.” “He kind of was just saying ‘yeah, yeah’, not really believing a word I was saying,” laughs Evans. The director approached Uwais, and explained that he was set to return to Wales, but he promised to return so they would make martial arts films together. There is an aesthetic to it, where it is technically proficient, but there’s also something stylized about it – something cool.” What sets Iko apart is that he has a very solid understanding of what he looks like when he performs Silat. But then he starts doing Silat and he completely transforms. “At first glance, he seems to be this quiet, shy, humble guy.
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One student in particular, a truck driver for an Indonesian telecom company named Iko Uwais, seemed to perfectly embody the idea that Evans was hatching. As he shot, capturing the movements and styles of some of the grand masters of the art, he realized the untapped cinematic potential of what he was seeing. In 2007, director Gareth Huw Evans traveled to Indonesia to work on a documentary about the largely unfilmed martial art of Pencak Silat.
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