If you have been in Indonesia for the last 4 years, and have not heard about “Cinta Fitri”, it’s nearly impossible – except you never come out of your house and there’s no TV.

I’m not saying that I really like the plot. It’s good in its first season but I think that’s all. The next seasons have a series of plot that’s not my type.

The first thing impressive from this soap opera was the creative way of thinking about how to not make a good-versus-evil story, like the others did, but a family’s life and their problems.

Also, the details are really, really good. Perhaps majority won’t realise what I mean, but it’s there.

For instance, other stories would try to make a complicated plot but in later episodes there are contradictories if we look back at previous episodes. But here, in Cinta Fitri, they showed a different quality. They included every detail and not deviated from previous episodes.

Another sample is the old characters are not forgotten easily. Season by season, someone who we didn’t really remember he/she was EVEN there, could show up again. They remember to show us the “flash back” of the old episodes where the character has ever been there. Somehow amazingly the characters are put together with a complication.

Again, I loved the details much. It’s as simple as an unimportant-gesture, but that gesture is really, really, really spontaneous and needed in real life, which would be ignored (too often) in others. It makes the characters are acting naturally.

This successful production of MD Entertainment is actually much better in their technical part. It’s just the plot that’s not quite creative. I think it’s because the number of episodes which is way too many. It’s over 900 (by January 2011), gaining Indonesian World Record (MURI) for the longest soap opera.

It is the first Indonesian soap opera which used the movie-format for its opening episode in a season (unfortunately I forgot which season it was). And also, for its season 5 poster.

The least but not last thing is the high productivity and SCTV awards. Cinta Fitri has produced its own original soundtrack, Cinta Kita, sung by Shireen Sungkar and Teuku Wisnu (the main casts), and its own music album (compilation of the songs in the drama). About the SCTV awards, here they are:

2007

  • Best actor (Teuku Wisnu)

2008

  • Best programme (Cinta Fitri)
  • Best actor (Teuku Wisnu)
  • Best actress (Shireen Sungkar)
  • Lifetime achievement (Ida Kusuma)

2009

  • Best actress (Shireen Sungkar)
  • Best actor (Teuku Wisnu)
  • Best supporting actor (Adly Fairuz)
  • Best supporting actress (Dinda Kanya Dewi)

2010

  • Best programme
  • Best actress (Shireen Sungkar)
  • Best actor (Teuku Wisnu)
  • Best supporting actor (Adly Fairuz)
  • Best supporting actress (Dinda Kanya Dewi)

Hopefully they have good progression in their stories. It would be really great then.

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