Badarn Jai: Confirmed Date

Confirmed by Wishbone, “Badarn Jai” (eng: “The Nether Mind”) starring Aum Atichart and Margie Rasee will being airing on June 19th, 2008. It will be replacing that god awful lakorn “Awayjee See Chompoo” for the Weds-Thurs time slot.

Also, Wishbone will be subbing this series. High-five to all my non-speaking Thai lakorn lovers! According to Wishbone, this lakorn is an adaption of a book by Krisana Asokesin, the same author who wrote Sawan Biang. So…how do you like them chops?

Teaser with ENG subs.
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Cast and Characters (Wishbone translation)

Atichart Chumnanont (Aum) as Sakkarn Thanasak (Tor)
Rasri Balenciaga (Margie) as Purimarn (Perng)
Chalisa Boonkrongsub (Ming) as Rangsita Jarukul (Aom)
Chayanan Manomaisantipap (Am) as Rangsiya Jarukul (Aeuy)
Manasanan Punlertwongsakul (Donut) as Alawee Thanasak (Tu)
Puttipong Sriwat (Leo Put) as Pae
Duangta Tungkamanee (Took) as Chulee Thanasak
Tasawan Seneewong Na Ayudhaya as Prim
Suchao Pongwilai as Damrong Thanasak
Tripol Promsuwan (Tob) as Woramit (Mit)
Ball Chernyim as Perm

My name translations; I think we’ll go with Wishbone’s translation because I’m pretty sure I butchered their names. LOL

“Aum” Atichart Chumnanont as Sukgaan Tonsuk (Tal)
Margie Rasee Balenciaka as Poo Rimaan (Perng)
Chayanan Manomaisantiphap as Ransitha Jarugon (Aom)
“Donut” Manusnun Punlertwongsakul as Alawee Tonsuk (Tu)
“Leo Put” Putthipong Sriwat as Pae
Took Thongkomnee as Chulie Tonsuk
Tatwan Sayneewonayootaya as Prim
Suchao Pongwilai as Damrong Tonsuk
Triphon Phromsuwan as Wonmit (Mit)
Ball Chernyim as Perm

Summary:

Badarn Jai is a lakorn about a man who mentally falls apart because the love of his life dies in an car crash while living aboard. Aum plays the demented man and Margie plays the young woman who helps him regain his sanity by showering him with love and support.

At the start of Badarn Jai, our pra’ek Sakkarn dons the asian mullet, isolates himself from the world, and scares his family with his erratic behaviors. Sakkarn is heartbroken and deeply depressed over the death of his fiancee, Aeuy. His mother is deeply worried and asked advice from a longtime friend who has a daughter.

Seeing that the only way to heal her son’s sorrowful state is to find him a new love, she arranges a marriage between Sakkarn and her friend’s daughter, Purimarn. In order to coerce her son into marriage, Sakkarn’s fake an illness.

The couple married. They move into Sakkarn’s house and sleep in different rooms. Purimarn works really hard to please Sakkarn. She tries to brighten up his life by adding flowers into his home and being really lively. He likes her company but pretends to hate her.

Shortly after Sakkarn and Purimarn’s wedding, Aeuy’s sister comes back to Thailand. Ransitha looks exactly like her sister Aeuy. For years, Ransitha secretly pined over Sakkarn but kept her feelings dormant because Sakkarn was dating her sister.

After the death of her sister Aeuy, she saw an opportunity to be with Sakkarn. Ransitha starts mingling into Sakkarn and Purimarn’s life in order to break them up.

–I’ll end it here. You get the gist.