Savage siblings
Published Aug 30, 2018 04:05 pm
JUST A THOUGHT: A brother without sister is like a bird without wings.
A scene from 'Brother Of The Year'
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BROTHERS AND SISTERS: While growing up, how did you relate to your brothers and sisters?
I grew up with six siblings, two brothers and four sisters. We were raised in the countryside, where we had wide open fields and rolling hills as playground.
We created our own toys, invented new games, climbed trees and swam in the river at the back of our country house.
On our own, with age gaps between two to three years each, we were a self-sufficient community of gamers and players. This sense of community and belonging has created a bond so tight it has seen us through upheavals due to unavoidable differences in opinion in later years.
Through it all, however, we remain caring brothers and sisters. My younger sister, Nellie, for instance, can now simply laugh off how I had naughtily pulled off one prank too many at her expense in our youth.
A storyteller since, I once set the stage for a big prank a day before her Grade 6 graduation. I warned her I had surreptitiously heard my parents talk about a master plan to reveal to her the truth behind her identity.
That she was adopted, and that they would reveal to her the shocking truth as soon as she had received her elementary diploma.
With tears in her eyes and hurt in her heart, Nellie went on a rampage. She confronted my parents, and demanded that she be brought to her biological father and mother to live with them happily ever after.
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BROTHER OF THE YEAR: As a general rule, siblings generally love and care for each other. They share an unbreakable bond of love that goes beyond youthful playful pranks and petty quarrels.
In some other cases, such love is expressed in different ways. Tough love is one of them.
Can’t say for sure if tough love is what it’s all about in upcoming film “Brother Of The Year,” produced by Thai outfit GDH 559, and directed by “Bad Genius” director Witthaya Thongyooyong.
The film comes close on the heels of the international success of high school heist thriller “Bad Genius,” a worldwide hit that exposed cheating in Asian schools.
“Brother Of the Year,” opening Sept. 5 across the Philippines, threads on themes of sibling rivalry and bullying.
Starring Thai heartthrob Sunny Suwanmethanont, Nichkhun Horvejkul of Korean boy band 2PM and TV actress Urassaya “Yaya” Sperbund, the film takes on a realistic portrayal of the highly relatable meddling problem of an older brother, a nemesis to his sister’s budding love life.
Sunny is the savage brother who constantly meddles in his younger sister’s perfect love life.
Thongyooyong (“My Girl,” “The Possible,” and “The Little Comedian”) believes he has a universal story on hand. A lot of people, he says, can relate to his story as well as learn something from it.
“Brother Of The Year” is supported by Tourism Authority of Thailand.
A scene from 'Brother Of The Year'
• • •
BROTHERS AND SISTERS: While growing up, how did you relate to your brothers and sisters?
I grew up with six siblings, two brothers and four sisters. We were raised in the countryside, where we had wide open fields and rolling hills as playground.
We created our own toys, invented new games, climbed trees and swam in the river at the back of our country house.
On our own, with age gaps between two to three years each, we were a self-sufficient community of gamers and players. This sense of community and belonging has created a bond so tight it has seen us through upheavals due to unavoidable differences in opinion in later years.
Through it all, however, we remain caring brothers and sisters. My younger sister, Nellie, for instance, can now simply laugh off how I had naughtily pulled off one prank too many at her expense in our youth.
A storyteller since, I once set the stage for a big prank a day before her Grade 6 graduation. I warned her I had surreptitiously heard my parents talk about a master plan to reveal to her the truth behind her identity.
That she was adopted, and that they would reveal to her the shocking truth as soon as she had received her elementary diploma.
With tears in her eyes and hurt in her heart, Nellie went on a rampage. She confronted my parents, and demanded that she be brought to her biological father and mother to live with them happily ever after.
• • •
BROTHER OF THE YEAR: As a general rule, siblings generally love and care for each other. They share an unbreakable bond of love that goes beyond youthful playful pranks and petty quarrels.
In some other cases, such love is expressed in different ways. Tough love is one of them.
Can’t say for sure if tough love is what it’s all about in upcoming film “Brother Of The Year,” produced by Thai outfit GDH 559, and directed by “Bad Genius” director Witthaya Thongyooyong.
The film comes close on the heels of the international success of high school heist thriller “Bad Genius,” a worldwide hit that exposed cheating in Asian schools.
“Brother Of the Year,” opening Sept. 5 across the Philippines, threads on themes of sibling rivalry and bullying.
Starring Thai heartthrob Sunny Suwanmethanont, Nichkhun Horvejkul of Korean boy band 2PM and TV actress Urassaya “Yaya” Sperbund, the film takes on a realistic portrayal of the highly relatable meddling problem of an older brother, a nemesis to his sister’s budding love life.
Sunny is the savage brother who constantly meddles in his younger sister’s perfect love life.
Thongyooyong (“My Girl,” “The Possible,” and “The Little Comedian”) believes he has a universal story on hand. A lot of people, he says, can relate to his story as well as learn something from it.
“Brother Of The Year” is supported by Tourism Authority of Thailand.