Raisa's Journey in the Documentary "Raisa's Treasure"

Raisa's singing career is entering its second decade. The ups and downs were recorded in the documentary "Harta Tahta Raisa".

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The performance of singer Raisa Andriana at Raisa Live in Concert held in the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, Jakarta, on Saturday night (25/2/2023). Raisa is the first female Indonesian singer to hold a stadium-scale concert.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Singer Raisa immortalized the journey of her musical career in a documentary entitled Harta Tahta Raisa. The film, produced by the Imaginari Pictures production house and directed by Soleh Solihun, will be broadcast on June 6 2024, the same time Raisa was born.

In a press conference and launch of the trailer and poster of her documentary film on Tuesday (23/4/2024), Raisa stated that the film was also based on her solo concert last year. However, instead of just telling the story behind the concert, this film will also feature important people who supported the career of Hamish Daud's wife. They are all, including YourRaisa fan group, according to Raisa, priceless assets for her.

"You could say this is a film without a script and I myself don't act in it at all. One of the things that will make this film interesting is the footage that no one has ever seen before. "It has never been published on social media or anywhere else," said Raisa.

Raisa admits that she is often surprised and amazed to find that there is a lot of footage that shows what it was like when she was still starting her career. Some, among others, are pictures of performing on small stages or during the first album workshop.

"In fact, there is footage that shows me with my make-up still smudged when I was performing. Ha-ha-ha," said the artist whose full name is Raisa Andriana.

Looking at all of that, Raisa admits that she is proud to have gone through many things to achieve career success now. When the idea for her documentary film was first conceived, Raisa admitted that she had wondered whether her life journey would be interesting enough for people to find out about and listen to.

In general, the director, Soleh Solihun, mentioned that his documentary film will try to capture and depict as comprehensively as possible the career journey of Raisa in the world of music.

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Raisa, together with director Soleh Solihun and two producers; Imajinari Pictures' founders, Dipa Andika; and Raisa's manager who also serves as CEO of Juni Records, Adryanto Pratono alias Adry Boim, held a press conference on Tuesday (23/4/2024). The press conference was held to launch the trailer and poster of the film that will be released on June 6, 2024, coinciding with the diva's birthday.

"If you ask whether this film will portray Raisa's ups and downs, it certainly shows her struggle starting from singing in cafes to eventually having an album and conquering GBK. You can watch it for yourself when the film starts showing in cinemas," said Soleh.

Soleh added, regarding the procurement of footage, apart from documentary recordings, especially those taken during the preparation process until the concert was held, they also obtained it from other sources.

"If it's difficult to get footage, it's not true, because the important thing is that you have the funds and you can definitely get it. The problem is how the producers agree (allocate) the funds to acquire the required footage. Ha-ha-ha," said Soleh jokingly.

The documentary film Tahta Harta Raisa was produced by one of the founders of Imajinari Pictures, Dipa Andika, and Raisa's manager and CEO of the recording company Juni Records, Adryanto Pratono alias Adry Boim.

Boim is one of the people who played a role as a supporter of Raisa, in addition to her family circle. He added that plans to make a documentary film had already been considered far in advance, even around the same time as the plans to hold Raisa's solo concert.

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"We want what we have been fighting for all this time, not only in the form of a solo concert, to be understood and enjoyed by all music enthusiasts. This medium (a documentary film) is right for us to tell the story of how an artist goes through the process. I met Raisa from 2009 until she had her solo concert in 2023," said Boim.

Soleh further praised Yaya (Raisa's nickname) and Boim, who according to him apparently had very complete documentation archives. In fact, from little Raisa to now an adult. "In fact, there is a recording of Yaya singing when he was in kindergarten, you know. "So all the footage was also taken from the archives of Juni Records and (Yaya's) family," said Dipa.

Dipa added, as a new production house, they are driven to continuously seek opportunities to showcase different types of films as has been done so far. Making a documentary film is their first project in this film genre.

"Even though Imaginari is a new production house, we are committed to continuing to present quality works that are fresh and new. "The film Harta Tahta Raisa is proof that we never play in our comfort zone and always encourage diversity of work in the Indonesian film industry," said Dipa.