Morlum Summer

[May]

Here's the summary for Morlum Summer...sorrie it's short...written by me also...

Morlum Summer

Starring
Poh Nattawut Skidjai as ---
Chompoo Araya A Hagrett as Annie

Araya’s mom is Thai and her dad is American and they live in New York. For the summer, they go back to Thailand to visit Araya’s grandmother, her mom’s mom, who is a morlum singer. Poh is a like a recording manager. I think he owns a recording studio too. He is dating the singer who he is writing songs for, Pream. He really is on love with her. On the day that Poh had to go to the airport to pick up his mom he saw Araya and her family. He was quite stunned when he saw her, but she gave no notice to him.

Araya didn’t really like her grandmother, but her grandmother totally loves her. I think it’s because they live in the slums/countryside or something like that. So she doesn’t want to go stay with them in the slums/countryside. Instead she wants to stay in the city and try to get a record deal. Her mom is not happy with her decision but does let her stay and gives her some money.

As the story goes on, Araya does sort of get with this record company and sing for them, but something happens and she is kicked out with no money. She had an encounter once with Poh at his studio and they got into a bit of an argument, so they dislike each other. Araya has no choice but to go to her parents in the slums/countryside .

At this point, I think, Poh’s girlfriend has left him for his competition. That guy had help Pream many times before; when her brother was arrested, and when her family needed some sort of financial help. So she decided to go sing for his record studio. Poh is deeply devastated and heartbroken. To make matters worse, his competition burned down his place, not his house, but I think his studio or office. So he has to start over and everything. He decides to go to the slums/countryside where his sister is residing and stay there for a while.

Araya is a bit disgusted with everything in the slums/countryside. All Araya does is walk around listening to rap on her walkman. Sometimes she’ll help out at her grandmother’s concert. One night after her grandmother’s concert, an accident happened and her grandmother couldn’t sing anymore, along with another singer. So they needed to find a new singer. They decided to use Araya since she could sing. At first, Araya was reluctant because they wanted her to sing morlum, but eventually she agreed to do it. Her grandmother and all her people trained Araya to sing morlum. And she became very good and it was time to perform. She was a bit nervous but did it. I think Poh was at her performance too and saw her.

Well, eventually Araya gets pretty famous and goes into the city to make a recording with Poh’s studio. I think at this point they’ve sort of develop feelings for one another. As for Pream, her life is pretty bad because Poh’s competition abuses her and her CD’s aren’t selling. A lot of obstacles and misunderstandings come between Poh and Araya like jealousy and stuff.

In the end, Araya and her family goes back to America. She is quite mad at Poh because they’re relationship was going strong and then Araya finds out that Pream is pregnant, and she misunderstands that the child is Poh’s. Poh goes after her, but he can’t find her, so he comes back heartbroken, only to find her already in Thailand. They get married and Pream ends up with Araya’s cousin.

THE END

[lo]

thanks may!! i also saw this lakorn too!!! i thought this was a good lakorn of por and araya!!!!

[khan]

I want to see that lakorn, I hope I'll get to watch it over Christmas, but first have to find out who have that lakorn. I got the soundtrack for the lakorn, and really thought something different, well, acturally some the same as the summary. I can't wait to watch it, thank for getting me more excited about the lakorn.

[Mun]

I really like this lakorn in the beginning and then it kind of suck later on. They have too much of her singing the same song. I don't mind her singing, but it's mainly the same song (theme song of the movie.) I'm not saying you shouldn't watch the movie, infact I wish you would. You could skip a few tapes and not miss anything. ;D

[annie]

araya---annie
poh---soneta yahtt

this is the best romantic comedy put out by channel 7! i watched the entire lakorn about 6 times (i rented it 3 times).
it has a lot of singing which enhances it (i love the songs, they are really good).

Annie is half Thai and half American. She is very americanized and prefers the American culture over her mom's Thai culture, although her dad loves the Thai culture. She has an American boyfriend, Johnny, who always pressures her to sleep with him. She, being half thai, refuses. Her mom wants annie to go with her and annie's dad to the thai countryside where annie's grandmother lives and sings morlum and sells the best papaya salad. annie refuses and thinks lowly of the Thai culture. her mom eventually forces her to go visit, too. annie goes to tell johnny that she's leaving for thailand that summer, but catches him sleeping with another american woman. she gets angry and this incident causes her to go to Thailand (she and johnny sort of broke up after she kicked him down there when he scared her by forcing advances on her).
meanwhile, annie's friend (i forgot his name) is secretly seeing yahtt's sister. yahtt is a popular music producer who was dating pream, a popular singer, but she left him for yahtt's enemy, another music producer who uses her to try and get yahtt. Yahtt goes with his sister to pick his mom up at the airport and sees annie, who stuns him, but when he sees how she is embarrassed by her grandmother (she brought her entire morlum band with her to greet annie), he doesn't like her. yahtt's mom likes annie, though.
annie leaves her parents who r going to stay with annie's grandmother, to go stay with her friend.he tries to find her a job to earn her $ to get by that summer. she ends up getting rejected by several record companies, because they think her singing is amateur and she has a bad attitude.she ends up modeling for soap adds and all, and ends up with enough $ to buy a cell phone, etc. the company she models for wants her to show too much skin, so she gets angry, refuses, and quits.she gets kicked out of her apartment and has little $ left. she goes to try and find her grandmas house, but ends up in bangkok crying on her luguage. yahtt drives by, sees her, and ends up driving her to the train station and giving her $. she ends up finding her grandma and parents and aunts and uncles.she discovers that her grandmother was famous in Thailand for her restaurant and singing. annie soon enjoys thailand and the thai culture.
yahtt starts his own record company, Kittykey. he finds out that annie is a good singer and asks her to work for his company (even though they were always arguing before; he said that she would never be a singer with such a bad attitude and made a bet that she would never have a good attitude, while she bet that he would never get over moping about pream leaving). yahtt's rival also wants annie to work for him. annie ends up choosing yahtt's company, angering the rival.
they end up falling for one another and annie is a really popular singer with several who looks up to her. pream is sort of jealous because her records no longer make #1 and the guy she left yahtt for is abusive. she regrets leaving such a good person as yahtt and is jealous that yahtt likes annie.
everything is good, until johnny surprises annie in thailand by visiting her (annie doesn't want this since she and yahtt are sort of dating). annie's family sees this and tries to keep johnny away from her. he claims to love her and will do anything for her to forgive him. yahtt ends up being a little hurt & jealous when annie and johnny become friends.
they resolve it when johnny goes back to america, where annie is also famous for her singing.pream is pregnant & makes yahtt feel sorry for her and he signs a paper for the hospital saying that he's the baby's father. pream uses this to show annie and annie gets mad and goes back to new york. yahtt takes care of pream as a good friend and leaves her in annie's grandmother's care while he goes to new york looking for annie.
annie is back in america and is good friends with johnny, who now accepts that they are only friends.annie's dad has to move because his job was relocated. yahtt can't find annie at the old address and goes back to thailand. annies grandma found out about pream lying (pream admitted) and told annie. annie surprised yahtt by meeting him in thailand. in the end they get married in thailand, where they sing a duet together.
this lakorn is full of comedy and romance. its really funny, especially because of johnny, annie's grandmother, and annie and yahtt's dislike for one another in the beginning.the beach scene and concerts are really amusing. i give this lakorn a 5+ out of 5. if anyone is willing to sell this or the CD or VCD, or knows someone who is (in Thai or Khmer), let me know. i love this lakorn! i recommend it to everyone. Araya and Poh look sooooo cute together!