Theme Song & Lyrics: CAUTIVA/HANGGANG MAKITA KANG MULI by AICELLE SANTOS

I have to admit, I watched every now & then the transmission of Cautiva/ Hanggang Makita Kang Muli from the Panamericana website. But it is really too early, 5:30 am, so it was mainly a haphazard effort. Though it gave me great satisfaction to learn each time that my Spanish was not at all rusty, I could understand it fully. Watching teleseryes being shown in various languages has been a boon: I can easily learn languages, & I could refresh them by watching  dubbed soaps, be it in Spanish, like in Peru, or reading the Russian subtitles, like in Kazakhstan (being bilingual, telenovelas there are dubbed in Kazakh but subtitled in Russian).

Cautiva was the surprise hit teleserye in Peru, besting the Philipine hit La Promesa/ Pangako Sa Yo and outclassing the kdramas which for 15 years were consistent in being stuck at the bottom of the Peruvian  ratings charts, below all the telenovelas from Peru, Brazil, Colombia & the Philippines. It was obvious they loved there the theme song of this teleserye, they used it a lot to signal the breaks. Me too. Lucky us, we have here the lyric video.

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Wowowin March 14 2017

Wowowin March 14 2017 Full Show Replay
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Wowowin is an upcoming Philippine afternoon-variety show presented by Willie Revillame premiering May 10, 2015 on the Sunday afternoon block of GMA Network. The program will also be broadcast internationally via GMA Pinoy TV, GMA Network's international channel. The program marks the much-awaited comeback of Revillame to Philippine showbiz and television and his return to his original mother network, GMA Network, where he hosted Lunch Date with friend Randy Santiago in the 1980's. Wowowin will be produced by Revillame's WBR Entertainment, serving as a blocktimer on GMA Network and friend Randy Santiago will serve as the program's director.

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LOOK: Vice Ganda falls off chair while hosting TNT Kids on It's Showtime

Vice Ganda was left red-faced earlier on It's Showtime when he suddenly fell off his chair while he and Anne Curtis was hosting its newest segment 'Tawag ng Tanghalan Kids'.

The two were interviewing the contender from Cavite, Lowisse Yurong, when the unexpected fall happened.



Anne and one Showtime dancer rushed on stage to help Vice get up.

Vice blamed the chair for being too small for him, not perfectly square and not "economically correct".

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'Bhoy Intsik' Movie Review: Shows The Lives Of Outcasts Leading Miserable Lives Of Danger And Desperation

'BHOY INTSIK' is an entry in the current SinagMaynila Filmfest that is about marginalized people living in the fringes of society in utter poverty. It is also about the unusual friendship between two thieves, a gay conman named Bhoy Intsik (Raymond RS Francisco) and a street kid abandoned by his mom when he was 8 years old, Marlon (Ronwaldo Martin). They are not sanitized for viewers to sympathize with them. They are shown going to church, praying to God to help them successfully rob more people to increase their earnings and, later, even stealing the collected monetary contributions of the faithful to the church. The film does not judge them, simply because there is no moral confusion in what they are doing. For them, it's just the normal thing to do survive amidst harsh and cruel surroundings.

They start as bitter foes who are lunging at each other's necks, but eventually, they warm up with one
another and become the best of friends. Marlon sees Bhoy reunited with his long lost wife (Shyr Valdez) and Bhoy even accompanies Marlon to Olongapo to look for his long lost mother and, later, does an act of supreme sacrifice to save the life of his young ward which is threatened by a crooked cop (Mon Confiado).


The story is set in the filthy slums inside a public cemetery (well established through drone cinematography) in Cavite City, with a dumpsite situated right beside the sea that it can pollute so easily. Bhoy Intsik lives in a rundown shanty built alongside concrete tombs. This is where Marlon, who dabbles as a small time drug courier, eventually joins him when he is thrown out of the dilapidated bus in the junkyard where he used to stay.





The film does not exploit the squalor and penury portrayed on screen, neither is it condescending in its treatment to achieve a contrived effect, it simply shows us what is going on around us, that we may not be aware of, with a compassionate and knowing eye. This will be perfect for foreign audiences in international film festivals who enjoy watching poverty porn in 3rd world countries like ours.

The milieu alone pulses with authenticity and reeks with seedy atmosphere. It made us realize that Manila is a city of two diverse communities: that of the civilized and financially secure who live more comfortable lives served by the law, and a community of outcasts who lead appalling lives of danger and desperation, with violence and death lurking in street corners.

In an ideal world, no one would be allowed to live inside a graveyard like the characters in this story do. The film is also timely in these days of Operation Tokhang since there are people shown dumped in the cemetery, the victims of EJK (extra judicial killings) with signs that say 'huwag tularan' as they are drug pushers.

The bleak melodramatic twists and turns in the story will surely be enjoyed by those who like this type of storytelling in teleseryes. It does make the plot development quite solid and riveting. But the screenplay written by Ronald Carballo also has a male beauty pageant for gays, bawdy touches of comedy, graphic sex talk, and even makes fun of some current real life political characters as there are even comic references to Digong and De Lima.

No doubt Francisco shines brightly in the title role. What's nice is he does not go overboard in his interpretation when it's so easy to be tempted to make it a funny caricature. Your heart will go out to him in the final scene where he keeps on thanking someone on his cellphone, totally unaware of the impending tragedy and heartbreak that he is about to face. No wonder he won the best actor award in the SinagMaynila Awards Night last Sunday.

Martin also does well as the uncouth, grimy teener who grew up in the streets, but we realize that he's not acting at all. This is really him. It's the same kind of portrayal he gave in "Pamilya Ordinaryo". You wonder if he would be also as convincing if he'd be made to portray a rich kid reared with higher education and good breeding.

Giving good support are Elora Espano as the randy and aggressive girl who has the hots for Marlon, Tony Mabesa as the hypocritical pastor who is Elora's guardian and Jim Pebanco as Bhoy's gay flamboyant best friend who is arrested for having sex with a minor. Joel Lamangan wisely uses restraint in a number of potentially mawkish scenes. The reunion scene between Bhoy and his wife is done without any words being exchanged between them. The film could have also ended with a final sequence that is full of caterwauling or "hagulgulan", but Lamangan consciously avoids this and gives a conclusion that, for us, has a much more heartfelt impact.
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