Art Pasut and Taew Nataporn are coupled together for “Songkran of Love”, an afternoon holiday special sponsored by the Thai Cultural Commisio, targeted to the youth of Thailand to show them the importance and meaning of the Songkran festival other than it being a fun water festival for the Thai New Year. This mini lakorn is slotted to air on April 13 at 3:10pm on Ch3.
Art in the lakorn is Pom, a college student, who wants to have a good time, he tells his friends Jack/Pat and Dao he wants to go somewhere during the Songkran holiday. Pat contacts his uncle Wiwat from the provinces to see if they can go there to celebrate Songkran, his uncle agrees if the guys come before the Songkran festival and help the townspeople prepare for the celebration. Pat agrees. When they get there, Wiwat realizes that they are too into the fun of the Songkran festival to care about working. He decides to delegate the task of handling the guys to Nam (Taew), a beautiful straightforward girl with confidence and Wiwat’s niece.
When Art meets Nam, he is intrigue. His friend Jack notices that and made a bet with him, if Pom is able to get with Nam, Jack will buy him 3 meals. Just 3 free meals, you cheap, man. Pom agrees and starts to pursue Nam and finds it strange that her only means of transportation is a bike. She refuses to ride a car or any automobiles. One day, Pom needed to go somewhere and he wanted Nam to come along too. But Nam refuses. Not taking her refusal, he tried to force her into the car and she started to scream. He was startled and later learned that Nam has a phobia of cars. When she was young, she was in a car accident with her parents. The car flipped over, she survived, but her parents did not. Since then, she has always had a fear of driving, of being in a car for very long. Though she is a smart girl, her phobia has made her unable to leave the town. Pom apologized to Nam for not knowing about her phobia. Nam tells Pom that every year, during Songkran she would invite the monks over to her parents tomb (urn) and asked them to do the Suat Bangsukula ritual (the practice of giving robes or cloth (white, orange) to monks at a funeral. New robes are placed on a coffin and received by the monks who then chant and pour water for the deceased in order to transfer merit). She does this every year as a way to show her parents gratitude and to tell them not to be worried about her.
After learning about her tragic past, Pom pities Nam and likes her more. He no longer cares about the bet he has with Jack. He begins to do things for her, like cleaning her parents’ tomb area. Kwan, some local guy who likes Nam sees him being nice and begins to feel jealous. He starts drama. When Pat learns that Kwan and Pom are fighting over Nam, he scolds Pom. Pat accused Pom of not being sincere and Nam was only a bet to him. Pom should back off. Just when Pat said that, Nam heard it. I’ll leave it at that. Don’t worry it has a happy ending and Pom will learn the meaning of Songkran. Tada.
