Gubra

Gubra is a 2006 Malaysian film directed by Yasmin Ahmad. It was shot in 14 days in Ipoh, Malaysia. It is the sequel to Sepet, and was followed by Mukhsin.

Name

Gubra gets its title from the word gubra, a word in the local Penang or Kedah variant of Malay used mainly used by the mamak community. The word means "worry". For overseas distribution, it was marketed as "Anxiety".

Synopsis

The story plot of Gubra is set a few years after Orked's romance with Jason, where she is married to Ariff, a man who is very much older than her. Early one morning, when she was fooling around with Ariff in the bathroom, her mother Mak Inom called her and said, "Orked, come now! We're losing your abah (father in Malay)!" Apparently, Orked's father, Pak Atan, had diabetic complications and the whole family, with their maid, Kak Yam, and chauffeur, Anuar, inclusive, frantically rushed him to the hospital.

At the hospital, Orked incidentally meets Alan, the elder brother of Jason, who recognised her from the photos that Jason and Orked took together during their rendezvous. Alan's father was also hospitalised due to a broken leg after his mother pushed him down the doorstep in annoyance. Alan was divorced from his Singaporean wife in this story and had his six-year-old daughter in his custody. In the midst of the 'reunion', Kak Yam got romantically involved with one of the hospital's male nurses, while Orked discovered, again (as it was not the first time since Orked mentioned, "You don't have to worry about breaking up our marriage, it's on the rocks anyway."), that Ariff had been seeing another lady, Latifah, behind her back. She moved back to her family home and had Alan bring her to his house where she tearfully retrieved memento items of her days with Jason, including photos and several Jason's Chinese poetry books, which Alan had kept away secretly for fear that his mother will secure them tightly in remembrance of her deceased son.