UNLIKE JULIA Barretto who seems to be bent on banking on a love team, it’s wise of the other Julia, Julia Montes, not to have a permanent ka-love team. She’s being linked to Coco Martin but we all know it’s only for show and it’s not at all serious. Now, she has two new partners in her latest soap, “Doble Kara”, Edgar Allan Guzman and Anjo Damiles, who are relative newcomers given their big breaks in a soap in this show, kaya obvious na si Julia ang siyang magdadala sa programa.
We saw the press preview of its pilot week at Trinoma last Sunday, just a day before the show started airing yesterday replacing “Flor de Liza”. It’s the kind of sudsy soap with manipulative plot machinations that masa viewers will surely enjoy. It starts in Arayat, Pampanga with Mylene Dizon as Laura, who’s forced to sell her virginity to earn money for her sick mom (Irma Adlawan). She just went to bed once with her customer, Antonio (Allen Dizon), and got pregnant right away.
To save her from embarrassment, her ardent suitor, Ishmael (Ariel Rivera), offered to marry her. She later gives birth to twins named Kara and Sara. Kara is bright but sickly, and gets leukemia. Sara is the perky one who’s fond of joining declamation contests in school and when she grows up, beauty pageants.
Antonio is married to Lucille (Carmina Villaroel) who has difficulty getting pregnant. When she finally did, the baby died only after a few days and she didn’t get pregnant again. Kara learns that Ishmael is not really her dad but Antonio, who’s based in Manila. She implores her parents to just give her away to Antonio because both Laura and Ishmael are so poor and they just live in a pigpen. She’s just more a burden to them. With the rich Antonio, she can even seek the help of medical experts so she can have chemotherapy to treat her ailment.
Kara later even meets Lucille who quickly likes her and willingly adopts her, not knowing she’s really Antonio’s daughter. They take her to the States and that’s where she grows up. Sara, in turn, grew up in the province told that her twin sister is under the guidance of a foundation who’s taking care of her.
By Mario Bautista: Showbiz Portal