Year/TV Station: 2008/Ch 5
Cast:
Pong Nawat Kulrattanarak ~ Monthai Mahatatha
Peung Kanya Limthaphon ~ Bee, Piachet
Peuy Parnward Hemmanee ~ Wiyada Hiranwat
Mod Kanlaya Jirachaisakdecha ~ Wipawan Hiranwat
Mor Oak Smith ~ Nucha
Apinan Prasertwattanakul ~ Pongin
Jiab Pijittra Siriwetchapan ~ Maen Wat
Synopsis: (edited from Lia's Lakorn Synopsis)
Monthai is leaving for Australia to pursue his studies. He is from a rich family but his father is a womanizer, and Nucha is Monthai's half-brother. There is a maid's daughter named Lukana who likes Monthai but Monthai already has a fiancee Wiyada, who's also from a rich family. Bee is still a child when she sneaks into Monthai's house to pluck Asoke flowers for cooking. Bee sees Monthai & Wiyada behaving intimately & she giggles. Wiyada becomes upset and beat her but Monthai stopps her and gives Bee money. Monthai's mum is afraid that her son will become like his father, and beat up Lukana for getting too close to her son. Lukana wants to prove her innocence & commits suicide. This incident made Monthai's mum guilty, while Monthai hates his mum & leaves for Australia. Wiyada's dad knocks down Bee's grandma & kills her in a car accident. He brings Bee to his household & Bee becomes their servant. Though the Hiranwats are not very nice to Bee, Wiyada's sister Wipawan always looks out for Bee.
Wiyada and Monthai write letters to each other, but he does not know that it's Bee who always sent him letters. Wiyada's handwriting is ugly so she orders Bee to write letters to Monthai. Impatitent to wait for Monthai, Wiyada cheats on him & could not be bothered with those letters.
After her husband's death, Monthai's mum is mentally unstable. She wants Wiyada to come to her house so that Monthai will also return, but Wiyada refused. Wipawan asks Bee to replace Wiyada. After 8 years, Monthai returns home & finds out that Bee is pretending as Wiyada. He suspects Bee's motive is to steal his family fortune by playing trick on his mom. He always teases Bee, and falls for her unknowingly. Monthai's mum does not agree to Wiyada and Monthai's wedding and wants Bee to be Monthai's bride. Wiyada is upset and plans to kill Monthai's mum by pretending as Lukana ghost to scare her to death. Before she died, Monthai's mum left a will which says that Bee will inherit the family fortune while Monthai gets nothing. Soon, Monthai finally realises that Bee is the person who sent him the letters, and Wiyada is responsible for his mum's death. Monthai apologises to Bee, but Bee rejects his apology. Bee learns that Monthai is leaving again, and runs after him....
Slacker's review:
Most Thai lakorns plots are purely romance with predictable story developments. It's just like Qiong Yao's dramas, old-school but you will not get sick of it. Haha! "Ngao Asoke" is not an exception here, though the background of the story was set in the 60-70s period (not a very common era for Thai lakorns). After watching "Ngao", I felt like screaming to Monthai that he's the most blinded fella on earth! Haha! Our poor female lead Bee had to suffer endless accusations until the final episode...poor girl~ Overall, "Ngao" was pretty dramatic, but without those endless troubles/incidents occurring to the leads, the drama would be pretty dead. (Contradiction ne~)
Yes, it's Pong Nawat again~! Seriously, it's hard to be sick of him...lolz! Pong gave a good performance in "Ngao", but I did not like his character Monthai la. He's the usual male lead who always choose to believe the wrong person, and he always ignore/hide his true feelings for the poor female lead. I definitely do not want to see Pong acting such a character again. Haha! I found Monthai to be pretty modern during that era, probably it's because he always wore western suits & he did not comb/gel his hair in the old-fashioned way. There were quite a few memorable scenes b/w Monthai & Bee, and I thought Pong did pretty well there, as the guy gotta do most of the "actions". About the couple's bickering moments, the only issue I wondered was if the Thais were so "open" during 60/70s period, as it should be a conservative era. Can a master pull a servant so close to him, trying to tease/insult her all the time & even did something more extreme just to vent his anger? (Hey! U're watching a drama...lol!)
Peung is a newbie from Exact (the production co), and she's 12 yrs younger than Pong. Seriously, her acting was average-her crying scenes were not too bad, but her face was pretty expressionless. Anyway, her character Bee is the usual patheric role in a wealthy household. Basically, there's no "rest" for Bee as she's constantly bullied/accused/teased/insulted by Wiyada & Monthai respectively. However, Bee was not a weak person, she's pretty strong some how. I liked how she pushed Monthai away & argued her way out, I liked how she ignored Monthai's presence & walked past him. The only thing I did not like was her loyalty to the b**** Wiyada. Ha! (Another blind person~) I liked Peung's image in the drama, very innocent & sweet looking, with the way she tied her long ponytail & her simple dresses.
Peuy Parnward is a sexy actress, and she's still very sexy in this drama. Haha! (Conclusion: So Thailand was quite open to woman wearing sexy dresses during the conservative era.) Alright, I hated Wiyada, and Peuy's acting was pretty exaggerating. I realised that Thai actresses had very thick makeups, not just Peuy, but Peung too. (I rmbed watching Bee lying on hospital bed, but her face was so rosy red..."very healthy" leh.) Anyway, I was just too happy to see the end of Wiyada...Thanks to Monthai, or else you would not survive till the last epi. Ha!
There were two other couples, forming the romance side plots in the drama. Nucha-Wipawan couple also faced many obstacles, but I'm glad that they worked their way out. As for Pongin-Maen, I did not really follow their story, but I liked the scenes b/w Pongin & Bee...Hahaha~ (watching Monthai being jealous was fun!)
