KUALA LUMPUR – It was his favourite tea-time snack and Tan Sri Jins Shamsudin was elated to be served cucur kodok pisang (fried banana dumplings) by his wife.

But little did Puan Seri Halijah Abdullah realise that he would choke on the food and turn breathless.

The legendary actor, 82, was rushed to a clinic near their home in Kampung Pasir, Hulu Klang, but was pronounced dead at 5.45pm.

Halijah, 58, said although she accepted her husband’s death as God’s will, she found it hard to believe that eating the snack on Wednesday had led to it.

“When he was healthier, he used to like eating cucur kodok a lot.

“But after he fell sick, I never served it to him. On Wednesday, I felt like giving in.

“It’s an unsettling feeling as it was I who served it to Jins,” she said when met at their home.

Halijah said Jins ate three pieces and when he was fed the fourth, he became quiet.

“I told him to spit it out as I could feel he was choking but he did not open his mouth. I patted his back and the piece fell out.

“I gave him water and after that he vomited until he passed out. At that time he had turned pale,” she said.

Jins, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011, was buried at the Masjid Al-Ridhuan cemetery in Hulu Klang yesterday morning.

Among the many who came to pay their last respects were artistes Norman Hakim, Datin Marlia Musa, Datuk M. Nasir and Datuk DJ Dave.

Read also: Jins Shamsuddin dies

Coldplay on Thursday released a piano ballad in surprise new music by the English rockers to mark frontman Chris Martin’s 40th birthday.

“Hypnotised,” described by the band as a “new non-single song,” is the first track off an EP entitled “Kaleidoscope” announced for June 2.

“Hypnotised” starts off with dream-like chimes and piano with hints of Sigur Ros before turning into a more traditional rock ballad.

The song — in which Martin confesses he’s “never gonna be a saint” but finds renewal through love — is accompanied by a soothing video with images of the sea.

Read also: Meet ‘leading’ Coldplay tribute band, Coldplace

A Coldplay statement described the EP as a “sister release” to the band’s last album “A Head Full of Dreams,” which featured a song called “Kaleidoscope.”

Besides “Hypnotised,” “Kaleidoscope” features “Something Just Like This” — Coldplay’s recent collaboration with chart-topping New York electronic duo The Chainsmokers — and three yet-to-be released songs.

Read also: Coldplay’s second concert date here next year is also sold out

Coldplay, which has enjoyed worldwide success since its debut album “Parachutes” in 2000, had hinted that “A Head Full of Dreams” may be its swan song when it came out in late 2015.

Coldplay has gone on a marathon global tour for “A Head Full of Dreams.” An Asian leg opens on March 31 in Singapore before second rounds through Europe and North America.

The group will also headline a new Global Citizen festival in Hamburg on July 6 to press leaders of the Group of 20 major economies to work to end extreme poverty in the developing world.

LOS ANGELES – In the quarter century since the release of the cult classic film “Groundhog Day,” filmmakers of all genres have used the “time loop” as a narrative device.

The concept is simple: characters experience the same day again and again, often having to figure out some universal truth to reform their characters and break the cycle.

Now indie director Ry Russo-Young has revisited the premise in “Before I Fall,” which hits theatres on Friday, with the original movie’s thirty something protagonists replaced with a cast of sassy millennials to appeal to the lucrative young adult market.

In “Groundhog Day,” it is the selfish, arrogant weatherman Phil Connors, played by an acclaimed Bill Murray, who is forced to relive the same events until he decides to be a better man.

Harold Ramis’s comedy has spawned more than 30 copycats to varying degrees of success — from Disney’s “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas” in 1999 to the 2015 sci-fi flop “Project Almanac.”

Although “Groundhog Day” was only moderately successful on its release, it came to be considered one of the greatest-ever comedies over time, listed as a “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” milestone in the US National Film Registry.

Ry-Russo prepared for his updated version by watching time-loop movies such as “Primer” and “Edge of Tomorrow.”

“For me, part of the research process is really covering a lot of ground and really understanding the different intersecting genres,” she said.

Shot over just 24 days, “Before I Fall” follows Samantha Kingston, a student in the “in crowd” who is about to lose her virginity to another of the popular kids.

Played by 22-year-old rising star Zoey Deutch, Sam finds herself trapped in a time loop, destined to repeat the day of her death in an auto accident over and over.

Maria Magenti’s screenplay moves the action from the New England of Lauren Oliver’s young adult novel of the same name to the brooding majesty of the rainy Pacific Northwest.

“The landscape offered a lot for Sam’s psychology,” the 35-year-old Russo-Young said.

“There’s sort of a moodiness, and a sense of mortality, drama and angst to those visuals that felt like a character who is between life and death, who’s trying to figure it out.”

Sam’s journey takes her through the various stages of confusion, grief, terror and acceptance as she tries to figure out what the cosmos has in mind for her.

“The challenge with any repeat-day construct is that you have to make it feel fresh every day and not like you’re watching the same scene,” Russo-Young said.

“And the good news is it’s not the same scene because Sam is in a completely different psychological and emotional place.”

The cast teams Deutch (“Vampire Academy,” “Dirty Grandpa”) and the up-and-coming 23-year-old Halston Sage (“Paper Towns,” “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse”) with veterans like Jennifer Beals 34 years after she made her name in “Flashdance.”

Like all time-loop movies, Russo-Young’s fourth feature — her third in a row to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival — plays out as a parable about redemption and what it means to live a good life.

It also offers lessons on sexual pressure, the stresses of social media and the fragility of teenage friendships.

“When I watched it for the first time, it culminated in this weird feeling of a celebration of life, which I felt was so powerful and moving,” Deutch said.

“I recognised in people that were watching that they wanted to do good… Literally, I felt a sense of warmth and wanting to do good.”

Deutch, who was bullied at middle school, says she immediately connected with a character whose flaws didn’t define her.

“She’s a follower in the beginning and becomes her own leader in her life,” she said.

“Before I Fall” was a hit with the Sundance crowd and has been earning generally favourable reviews.

“These are two talented women who deserve to be elevated with the next projects they’re offered,” Brian Formo of the online movie magazine “Collider” wrote of Deutch and Russo-Young.

“‘Before I Fall’ could’ve been boilerplate. It often boils over with perfectly observed truths.”

There’s lots of parties going on Saturday but our Party Girl has narrowed down a few for you to check out.

Start your Saturday at Wave House Sentosa from 10am for the biggest holi colour festival in Singapore.

All ages are welcome.

VIP tickets are $120 that gets you free flow of drinks and access to the VIP area.

Otherwise it’s $12 on the door.

You can also head over to Millian at Sentosa Gateway on Saturday.

From 12pm – so this is all day event that goes way into the night – Superfly is having an urban party festival.

It’s a fantastic line-up of local and Asian urban and hip hop DJs and performances.

There’s also a sneaker convention, marketplace and amazing food.

Then later on Saturday, the Singapura Dub Club and Dancehall Nation SG are having a major dance party at Refuge in Chijmes from 10pm.

There will be a dance battle and trust me, some fabulous music.

And after all that, on Sunday, you can get some laughs in with comedian Eddie Izzard at the University Culture Centre from 8pm.

Tickets start at $98.

If you don’t know, now you know.

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