A film by Armen Rizal Rahman — parang.antraindra.com
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A film by Armen Rizal Rahman — parang.antraindra.com
PARANG! A Hikayat
An action-horror trilogy set in 13th-century Nusantara.
A family of warriors hunts women turned into weapons by an ancient
corruption — until the hunt leads back to one of their own.
The first film is already in active development
The work is done. The camera is what's missing.
Armen Rizal Rahman is the writer and producer of PARANG! A Hikayat.
But telling it like that is understating it. His talent moves across film, music, theatre, and performance — not as separate disciplines but as a single language. He approaches story through rhythm and conflict, character through cost, and production through the understanding that every creative decision is also a structural one. He has worked across camera, sound, editing, and scoring. He knows what a production needs because he has been inside almost every part of it.
PARANG! is his debut as a feature producer — a Southeast Asian action-horror trilogy rooted in original mythology, built on world architecture that holds across three films and eight hundred years of fictional history. Armen has spent twenty years building a world before anyone asked him to.
It is a story about power and inheritance. About what gets passed down that should have been buried. About the cost of carrying what was never yours to carry.
He is not new to the work. He is new to the scale.
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Parang
Found beside a river as an infant — no name, no bloodline, no roots. He fights like someone with nothing to lose, because for most of his life, that was true.
Bima
A former imperial soldier who built a quiet life around discipline and silence. The wars he buried eventually came looking for his family.
Aditya
Bima's eldest son. He performed every duty asked of him and received nothing in return.
Mayang
Bima's daughter. Fierce, fluent in every room she enters, and more protective of Parang than she has ever admitted — even to herself.
Ratna
Bima's wife. She is the structure the family lives inside. The shape of home leaves when she does.
Nala
A young Thai woman whose instinct was to move toward the wounded. All that was done to her left that untouched.
Racha Nago
A former imperial commander left for dead by the men he served. What came back was not broken. It was organised.
The Monk
He arrives with no explanation and leaves things in motion. His eyes are closed. The corners of his mouth are permanently, slightly raised.