“Prajan See Roong (The Rainbow Moon)” pictures

There are whole lot of pictures too. All photos are from the Ch3 website, I’ll post a few here.

“Prajan See Roong (The Rainbow Moon)” stars singer Bie Sukrit and “Aff” Taksaorn Paksukcharean as pra’nangs and “Ace” Worarit Vaijiaranai as the guy antagonist. At the beginning, Ace is Aff’s love interest, then she comes to realize he is not as he appears; there is part where he tries to rape her. Not a great guy and that is why she starts to fall for Bie, her friend since college who has always loved her.

[Ace drugged Aff and Bie saved her]

There are a lot of elements that make “Prajan See Roong (The Rainbow Moon)” a typical lakorn–love squares, obnoxious nang’rai (girl villains), long lost mother reappearing, memory lost, and a rapist guy antagonist with too much money in his bank accounts. Then, there is the thing that makes “Prajan See Roong” stand out, it’s a gay themed lakorn. No, Bie is not portraying a confuse gay man in this lakorn, the man who plays his father is. It’s interesting.

Gays in lakorns exist for comic relief, they are the jokers, the cheap laughs, rarely are they the themed or focus character in the series. This is something different.

Another theme for this lakorn is the bond between a father and son who are not biologically related. It’s a story about a transgender man who morphed himself to a heterosexual man to raise a child who is not his own because society dictates him to do so. Complicated, right? Another question is this, is that even possible? I been seeing a trend in Thailand, especially in movies that homosexuality is influenced by a person’s environment. Ananda Everingham’s movie “Me…myself” and teen gay comedy “Puppy Love” starring Wattaporn Lamsinthorn, Pongpisut Pew-Orn, and Petchthai Wongkamlao raised the question that possibly homosexuality is influenced by experiences in one’s life and can be changed. I can’t say I buy into it.

Normal Pongpat with short hair and Pongpat in drag

Pongpat Wachirabunjong is Bie Sukrit’s father, his character is Aruk. At the beginning, Aruk is a katoey (transgender) who works as a gay cabaret dancer for a club. His female friend, Oradee (Mam Jintara), who works as a masseuse, gives birth to a baby boy and abandons him, Aruk takes the child in and becomes his father. Oradee who is a selfish person runs off with her farang boyfriend to live abroad. Oradee’s son is Tawan (Bie Sukrit).

Aruk had such a strong desire to be a good father to his adopted son, so he decides to suppress his “gay” tendencies and sacrifice his life to create a normal life for Tawan. He quits his job as a gay cabaret dancer and moves to Chiang Mai to open a hair salon and start his new life as a heterosexual man and a good father to Tawan. Tawan knows about his father’s past but still respects him.

Aff looked annoyed. Haha

Tawan grows up to be a wonderful and normal kid. He attends university with Plaifah (Aff Taksaorn), a young woman from a rich family. He falls for her but she has no feelings for him. Years later, when Tawan becomes a singing sensation, a superstar, Plaifah and him start dating. Of course, because this is a lakorn, Tawan has an accident and temporarily loses his memory. His mother Oradee also comes back into his life and complicates the situation.

Tawan doesn’t remember Plaifah, he changes into a whole new person. No longer is he a kind and generous person, he turns into a cruel and mischievous man.

“Prajan See Roong (The Rainbow Moon)” is set to roll out on June 3, 2009 on Ch3.

We all know that in real life Bie is a famous singer. For the lakorn, Bie recruited his fanclub members for the concert scene to cheer him on.

Bie and Aff became fast friends on set.

Bie-Aff-?-Ace-Mam

Noon Boonyasak and “Peemai” Sumonrat Wattanaselarat are the first two. Nice wedding dress.