Actor paid to change name to ‘Satay’


Screen icon: Wahid (left) with Indonesian actress Rima Melati in the 1950s and at his home in Singapore last week.

 

SINGAPORE: He was born A. Wahid. But the veteran singer, comedian and actor was paid RM2,000 to change his name to “Wahid Satay”.

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