Rasa Sayang - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The song appeared in a black-and-white Japanese film produced in 1943, Marai No Tora ("The Tiger of Malaya").
• Rasa Sayang Eh is the name of a Malay film published in 1959.
• The song was sung in a scene of a popular 1960 Malay film Antara Dua Darjat, directed by P. Ramlee.
• A song in the Hindi film Singapore (1960) used the "Rasa Sayang" refrain. The music for the movie was by Shankar Jaikishan, and the song sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi. The on-screen dancers were Helen and Shammi Kapoor.
• The song "Rasa Sayange" was recorded by PT Lokananta in Solo, Indonesia on August 15, 1962. The master copy of this recording is still kept by PT Lokananta. This is the third known recording of the song.
• The song "Rasa Sayang 2.0" was a theme song of the movie "Nasi Lemak 2.0" by Namewee. The song is sang by Namewee and Karen Kong.
• Since the 1930s, the "Rasa Sayang" song has been taught to Indonesian kindergarten children,and Dutch colonist' children making it one of the most popular folk songs in Indonesia.