Dhevaprom: Kwanruetai
Apr 2024 – Thai – 14 x 70′
Genre: Romance, Drama
Cast: Mike Panithan, Yada Narilya, Saint Suppapong
In this Jutathep-Dhevaprom franchise instalment – “Kwanruetai”, viewers will feel the eternal pressures of the politics in love – internal conflict of loyalty and struggles for validation; the thrill of falling in love and possibly out of it.
Time has long since passed but the hurt and humiliation lingers for M.L. Maratee Dhevaprom when M.R. Phudhipat Jutathep broke their betrothal – as with the rest of his Jutathep brothers who did not fulfil the promise to marry a Dhevaprom, his heart is for another woman. Maratee has a daughter with General Pinit, but she remains embittered and scorned as she is not recognized as his lawful wife nor given any of his assets. Their twenty-year old daughter Kwanruetai is kind, generous, hardworking and ambitious – virtuous traits but all for the wrong reasons. For Kwanruetai, her entire being is in earnest for her mother’s love and approval.
Enter young military doctor – Major Dr. M.L Chatklao Jutathep, despite his royal lineage and privileged upbringing, he is good-hearted and down to earth. While on duty, he meets Kwanruetai in the northern province of Thailand, Chiangrai; where they are caught in the throes of danger due to gangs and drug wars. Chatklao falls in love with Kwanruetai but she is conflicted given their families’ long-standing estrangement – her mother whose approval and love she yearns for, is dead-set against Kwanruetai’s romance with Chatklao who is M.R. Phudhipat’s son.
Will she listen to her heart; or are the Jutatheps and Dhevaproms, just not meant to be together?
About the Dhevaprom anthology series
The Gentlemen of Jutathep aka Suparburoot Jutathep, a 5-part series about the lives and loves of five brothers born into the prestigious noble title of Mom Ratchawongse (M.R.); they are Khun Chai Tharathorn, Khun Chai Pavornruj, Khun Chai Phudhipat, Khun Chai Rachanon, and Khun Chai Ronnaphee; was a massive hit TV drama in 2013 receiving rave reviews and high TV ratings.
Following the hit series The Gentlemen of Jutathep, comes the 5-part series of The Ladies of Dhevaprom – Laorchan, Kwanruetai, Jaipisut, Dujupsorn and Poncheewan; whose lives and complex histories are intertwined with the noble Jutathep male heirs. Set in the 1960s, when marrying well into nobility and/or money is still considered the gold standard for the last line of nobility – titled Mom Luang (M.L.); sets the premise of the struggles and conflict of this series. Living in a confused culture of searching for love with the wrong agenda, will the next generation of aristocrats be able to discover the secret to lasting love?
