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Monk Teng (Pongsak Pongsuwan) takes over the temple of a village that,
due to lack of a local monk for years, has fallen back to superstition, a
fact that shady businessman Perm (Somlek Sakdikul) has taken advantage of
by setting up his own daughter Paniang (Savika Chaiyadej) as a medium who
makes predictions that always end up in the locals buying something from
Perm's market. Interestingly, apart from father Teng's helpers Song (Note
Chern-Yim) and Mana (Srawut Phumthong), Paniang is also the first
welcoming the monk into the village, and soon she takes up teaching at his
school. Soon, a fight between the monk and Perm erupts over the locals,
a fight that gangster Rattani tries to win in Perm's favour to ensure
himself influence. But even when Perm reveals the monk's shady past as a
thug, the monk seems to win the upper hand - until he is set up with a
woman who accuses him of raping her - which is when father Teng actually
gives up the fight and leaves the village ... but which is when Paniang
decides to finally choose sides, and he uses her influence as a medium to
tell the villagers about the whole set-up - which again leads the
villagers to go against Perm and Paniang, with Rattani, who sees his
influence diminishing, leading them. Song, who was somehow involved in
setting up Father Teng, now persuades the monk to return to the vilalge
... and just in time, since trying to escape from the angry masses, Perm
has jumped off a bridge into the river and is now about to drown - and it
takes the monk to save him. Rattani now wants to make the villagers to go
against both the monk and Perm, but now the truth about his involvement in
the whole affair is revealed, and the villagers go against him instead.
And in the end, the monk is accepted as the village's resident holy man. Nopthing
great, but a nice, almost cute comedy, that might lack the edge it
could/should have, but remains likeable throughout, also because the jokes
in this film never get too silly and too simple and b ecause as a
director, Note Chern-Yim keeps the admittedly cheesy finale from becoming
pure kitsch. You might not want to set your hopes too high, but then
you'll be pleasently entertained.
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