Sugar Is Not Sweet (Nam Tan Mai Wan) 1965 / 134 min. / 35 mm / colour Director : R.D. Pestonji Chaokun Jaroenkesa, the owner of ‘Kesajaroen’, a shop that sells hair loss treatment, wants to pay back his debt of kindness to his dear Indian friend, whose formula is responsible for the company’s prosperity, by hiring Manas, his good-for-nothing son, to marry Nam Tan (Sugar), the daughter of his dear friend, for 2 million baht.
Sugar Is Not Sweet, R.D. Pestonji’s last film, brings different aspects of mainstream films together, such as romance, humour, sex and songs, but at the same time, the film acutely ridicules what it is to be a mainstream film.
