Sorry if it's a repost...it's not the same as that other article though...
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Juana is the latest Jassi
Another Spanish soap will inspire new woman-centric series on Sony
Sapana Patil
Indian television's love affair with virtuous women and virgins, especially the one's who are wronged, can never be over. Sony seems to have found the perfect story (from yet another Spanish writer) to take over from where the now-fizzling Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin may leave off.
Come November and the channel will launch a serial temporarily titled Juana, based on Venezuelan soap Juana la Virgen. Shakti Anand will play the role in the Indian version of the show. Anand confirms, "I am playing the lead. But I don't know much about this soap as yet, except that I will have a new look for it. I will flash a new hair-style!"
Apparently Kanchi Kaul who played the lead opposite Gaurav Chanana in Kuku Kohli's Woh Tera Naam Tha, has been slotted to play the female lead role of Juana.
The original Latin American version is popular for its hot and steamy scenes, but this is one aspect our desi show may desist from replicating. However, given that trends are changing, who knows if Sony will spring surprises on viewers by being true to the original here.
The cast begin shoot in a couple of weeks. Produced by Guleri's Prime Channel, the soap will go on air in the last week of November.
The original, Juana la Virgen revolves around a case of mistaken identity, where a virgin Juana is artificially inseminated by doctors at a hospital. She soon becomes a mother even before she has become a woman. Juana bears the child for a magazine publisher (which Anand will play in the adopted version) who is obsessed with having a child but whose wife cannot conceive. The two ultimately fall in love. The original show stars Daniela Alvarado as Juana Perez and Ricardo Alamo as Mauricio De La Vega, the publisher.
WHAT'S THE SHOW ABOUT?
The journey to adulthood is difficult in its own right, but (the series' lead protagonist) Juana's is truly astonishing. An unbelievable twist of the fate shatters her world, causing the 17-year-old to be fearful and confused. Medical advances in artificial insemination combine with human error to create a new life, but in the wrong body. Juana is left to accept that she will be a mother without having yet been a woman, and finds herself linked to a man with whom she has nothing in common. Carlota's life-threatening illness only increases his obsession with having a child, so once he realises that the hospital has artificially inseminated Juana by mistake, he desperately searches for her only to find that Carlota has hired her to work at the magazine. Destiny links these lives, and each has much to learn, especially about the power of love. Source: http://www.vencor.narod.ru/films/juana.htm
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