I can’t believe it– “Duang Jai Akkanee (Akkanee’s Heart)” is airing next week on November 5, 2010, making it a weekend prime time lakorn replacing Kim and Aum’s Tara Himalaya. It’s a good thing. I am happy. Less waiting. Yea!
“Akkanee’s Heart” stars Nadech “Barry” Kugimiya and Yaya Urassaya Sperbund as two rivals in everything–school, work, personal life. From the lakorn Tara Himalaya to Akkanee’s Heart, Nadech’s character is the hot-headed Akkanee (Fai) and Yaya Urassaya is Ajjima (Jeed) his equal. They grew up together, they have been competing with each other since they were kids because her father Pisarn (‘Nino’ Metanee Buranasiri) is still resentful that his mother chose his father over him.
Akkanee’s father Khun Montree (played by ‘Num’ Santisuk Promsiri) married his mother Supansa (“Mam” Jintara Sukhapat) and they joined their land together making their farm one of the biggest in the region. Jeed’s father is not resentful because he lost the girl, he is resentful because he lost out in having the biggest farm in the region. Since then, there have always been bad blood between the two families which dripped down to their children, especially Jeed and Akkanee.
They live in the same neighborhood, went to the same school, went to the same university, majored in the same subject agriculture, studied in the same classroom, constantly competing/arguing with each other since the day they were born. After graduating from university, they had a few years of separation. Jeed went to study in Denmark, Fai stayed in Thailand and worked as a civil servant for a province for 2-3 years before moving to America to look after his sister Thiptara (Nam) as she studied for her doctrine in medicine.
Years later, both come back to Thailand to manage their families’ dairy farm and they continue where they started–constantly fighting, constantly competing. Eventually, a friend’s wedding brings them closer and makes them realize that they like each other more than they hate each other. Their former classmate from their university days, Wirat or Yai (Jirayu Toncharoen) invited and asked them to participate in his wedding in Phuket. Jeed is asked to be a bridesmaid and Akkanee is the best man. As they prepare for the wedding, they see more of each other and something started to click between them.
At Phuket for the wedding, the owner of the resort for the wedding Pruk started to pursue Jeed, which really irritated Akkanee. He became jealous and tried every method to break them apart. Because of his jealousy, Akkanee created a lot drama days before the wedding and bickered a lot with Jeed. At the joint bachelorette and bachelor party, they had their showdown of bickering and competing with one other which included dancing to see who was the better dancer. After a night of heavy drinking, they found themselves waking up in bed together. They don’t know what happened. I’ll leave it at that.
Cheesy cute scenes shown of “Akkanee’s heart” on the “Ratree Samosorn” show when the cast was there. The clips should start around the 5:48 mark.
