Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#124507
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Khir Rahman works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Khir Rahman appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Khir. Heist Dil Fitri is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Issey Fazlisham, Sein Qudsi, Khir Rahman helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Heist Dil Fitri (2023) as Dato' Jack · Bulan & Pria Terhebat (2020) as Agus · Libang Libu (2026) as Abang Mat Sarwi
Career snapshot
Ranked #124507 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Heist Dil Fitri
Average Nutevio score
3.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Heist Dil Fitri
Most frequent director
Sein Qudsi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Sein Qudsi
Most common genre
Action
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 10m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
3.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Libang Libu, Konspirasi, Leha — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
3.7
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
3.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Till Death: Azalea’s Wrath, Aku Posmen.
Most productive era
2020s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 2.33 films |
| Action | — | 5.36 films |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 3.04 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.14 films |
| Crime | — | 5.03 films |
| Horror | 6.01 film | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Aku Posmen
Where our catalogue meets this career.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Konspirasi
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
13 of 13 films
as Dato' Jack
Directed by Issey Fazlisham
as Agus
Directed by Unknown
as Abang Mat Sarwi
Directed by Unknown
as Azman
Directed by Sein Qudsi
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Dato' Jack
Heist Dil Fitri (2023)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dato' Jack gives Khir Rahman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Agus
Bulan & Pria Terhebat (2020)
Performance score9.7
Bulan & Pria Terhebat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Abang Mat Sarwi
Libang Libu (2026)
Performance score8.2
Libang Libu asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abang Mat Sarwi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Azman
Till Death: Azalea’s Wrath (2019)
Performance score6.8
Till Death: Azalea’s Wrath asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Azman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Dato' Jack
Start here. Heist Dil Fitri is the clearest statement of what Khir Rahman does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Khir at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Till Death: Azalea’s Wrath (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Heist Dil Fitri — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bulan & Pria Terhebat (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Till Death: Azalea’s Wrath — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mat Kilau (2022)
Same director as Bulan & Pria Terhebat, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Libang Libu (2026)
Same director as Mat Kilau, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sein Qudsi
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Till Death: Azalea’s WrathIssey Fazlisham
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heist Dil FitriSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Bulan & Pria Terhebat
as Agus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mat Kilau
as Usup
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bulan & Pria Terhebat
as Agus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Libang Libu
as Abang Mat Sarwi
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Heist Dil Fitri
as Dato' Jack
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Khir Rahman has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Heist Dil Fitri
as Dato' Jack
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Heist Dil Fitri
as Dato' Jack
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mat Kilau
as Usup
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Till Death: Azalea’s Wrath
as Azman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bulan & Pria Terhebat
as Agus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bulan & Pria Terhebat
as Agus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mat Kilau
as Usup
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Libang Libu
as Abang Mat Sarwi
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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