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Tiong Bahru Social Club is a satire but don't expect it to be bleak or pointed

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Tiong Bahru is the first major-release Singapore film to have large chunks of English dialogue in recent years.

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SINGAPORE - For a Singapore film in which plenty of English is used, you will not find much Singlish in the comedy-drama Tiong Bahru Social Club.
"Orh", however, has a special place in it.
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