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Destiny In Her Hands
断掌的女人
Genre Temptations
DramaStarring Jeanette Aw
Steve Yap
Ernest ChongCountry of origin Malaysia
SingaporeLanguage(s) Mandarin No. of episodes 30 Production Location(s) Klang Valley, Penang, Johor Bahru Running time 60 minutes (approx.) Distributor ntv7, MediaCorp TV Broadcast Original channel ntv7 (Malaysia) Picture format 16:9 HDTV Original run 9 June 2011[1] – 1 August 2011 Chronology Preceded by Footprints in the Sand Followed by Forget Me Not Destiny in Her Hands is a Malaysian/Singaporean television drama series and the 21st co-production of MediaCorp TV and ntv7. [2] The ntv7 anniversary blockbuster is scheduled to air from every Monday to Thursday, at 10:00pm on Malaysia's ntv7. This drama will be broadcast in Mediacorp Channel 8 in 2012.
This is also the first drama in this slot and the 17th drama in Mediacorp to be filmed in 16:9 HDTV although being aired in 4:3 SDTV on ntv7.[3]Contents
Plot
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Synopsis
It is a story about a lady who was born with broken lines on both her palms. It seems according to Chinese cultural beliefs, if a person is born with broken lines on his/her palms, especially if the person is a female, she would face a life of extreme hardship and bad luck.
The story begins with the main character Luo Jin Yu (Jeanette Aw) was born to a fried mee hoon seller mother and a gambling addict father. She was born at the backstage of a Cantonese opera travelling troupe that was coincidentally was in town for a performance. Jin Yu's mother was devastated to find out her firstborn daughter was born with broken lines on both of her palms. She had wanted to abandon Jin Yu but an opera performer who found her at the backstage had advised her to instead bring up her daughter as best as she could.
Life proved to be incredibly a long and hard journey for Jin Yu as she experienced indescribable hardships and challenges in life right into her adult life. Adding more misery to her life were the births of her three younger brothers and one younger sister, where her mother favoured them over her as the eldest child in the family.
Jin Yu was denied the basic right to education although she was an above average an conscientious student, she had to stop schooling and was forced to work in a factory at the age of 15 to support her family due severe poverty. After she got married to a colleague working at the same factory, she later discovered that she has the talent for writing and she decided to venture into it to earn extra income to support herself and her family. However, her husband was never supportive of her ventures to keep their family financially afloat.
Her husband was a womaniser and also hot-tempered and abusive towards her and their children, a mentally-challenged son and a daughter, which led her to become independent to achieve her ambition to be a famous script writer and the best possible wife and mother to her husband children. However, there was a time that Jin Yu even contemplated suicide because she believed the broken lines on both of her palms meant that she be destined to fail in her life.
A prolific journalist, Pan Li Hua who later became her best friend, advised her that her life is still worth living, and suicide would not solve the problems she was facing in life. Jin Yu then decided from then on to be in control of the direction her life would take but not at the expense of her family and ambition. She finally managed to take control of the destiny of her life but not without facing some of the most horrendous challenges life has imposed on her. Jin Yu's story ends as how it has begun, i.e. at a Cantonese opera travelling troupe stage but this time she was married to a man as her second husband who shared her passion for script writing and performing in the Cantonese opera.
Cast
Wang Family
Cast Role Description Jeanette Aw Luo Jin Yu[4] Steve Yap Wang De Cheng Jin Yu's husband Ernest Chong Wang Jie Ming De Cheng and Jin Yu's son
Shan Shan's brotherJoey Leong Wang Shan Shan Luo Family
Cast Role Description Jess Teong Li Xiu Zhi Hong Guo Rui Luo Jin Hua Xiu Zhi's husband Mers Sheng Luo Jin Liang Monday Kang Luo Jin Feng Moo Yan Yee Luo Ying Yu Tate Chan Luo Jin Guang Soo Wincci Hu Hui Ying Jin Quang's wife Other cast
Cast Role Description Goh Wee Ping Cheng Ru Hai Jin Yu's lover Huang Qi Ming Wen Qi Bing Brenda Chiah Mo Ding Xiang De Cheng's concubine Hero Tai Guo Tong External links
References
- ^ http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/Showbiz_Creatingherowndestiny/Article/art_print
- ^ http://www.screenings.com.my/programs/NTV7/NTV7_show_1/New-Programs/Drama/Local/Destiny.asp#cat
- ^ http://www.tianchad.com/2011/06/destiny-in-her-hands-ntv7.html
- ^ http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/Showbiz_Creatingherowndestiny/Article/art_print
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