Get into the cage with 'Sangkar', the first ever Malay MMA movie

Zul Ariffin (left) and Remy Ishak in a scene from Sangkar. Photos: Astro Shaw

In the 2017 action flick J Revolusi, Zul Ariffin plays an elite special force soldier who gets beaten up by a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. In Sangkar, Zul plays an MMA fighter. This, as it turns out, is no coincidence.

It was while filming J Revolusi and working with the film’s fight choreographer, Saiful Reza, that Zul got the idea of making a film that uses MMA fights as its base.