Singaporeans are excited their country is the location for the film "Crazy Rich Asians". It's the country's first time to be featured by Hollywood on the big screen in a major way. But is the movie's depiction of the city-state authentic? We find out from Miro Lu.

Crazy Rich Asians has made Singapore its first Asia premiere destination. However, there are outcries in some quarters that the film is not a true reflection of the city-state.

NG YI-SHENG WRITER "So when we have this movie out that is the biggest representation of Singapore that we've had for a long time and people in America are thinking this is what Singapore is like."

LIEW KAI KHIUN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR "Maybe can say that this Crazy Rich Asians plucks in very smoothly with the Singapore state's plans to attract finance capital. So it's not just about representation, it's about imagination. You want investors to come in that 'hey I'm living in this movie set like Crazy Rich Asians'. Just like when we go to New York City, you imagine that there's a Godzilla up there, a Spiderman around, the police eating donuts. So I think they want this kind of attraction. So I think it works really successfully."

FARIS JORAIMI UNDERGRADUATE "STB is definitely lapping it up as an opportunity to market destination Singapore as this place of extreme luxury and extravagance. It is part of the Singapore brand and part of the pride that we take in Singapore's economic success and pride in not being what that stands against, squalor, poverty, things like that, which exist in Singapore but we don't want to acknowledge and talk about."

FARIS JORAIMI UNDERGRADUATE "I think the myth of Singapore as this playground for the super-rich is something that – I think there's a genealogy that we can trace back to the way Singapore was sort of imagined as a city of colonial grandeur during the golden age of travel."

NG YI-SHENG WRITER "I do want to celebrate the fact that there are ethnically Southeast Asian actors acting in this show. Like Henry Golding who's playing the lead role. He is half British, half Dayak. And the Dayaks are an oppressed group of people in Borneo. And the fact that we now have a Dayak in Hollywood – that is incredibly empowering."

It looks like this film is on its way to become a box office hit. And one thing for sure, more people will be flocking to Singapore to experience what they saw in the film, though some might discover it to be uniquely different. Miro Lu, CGTN, Singapore.