Ulan

Ulan (2019)

Will it bring me love?

In this coming-of-age-film about self-love, Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other depressing things. Will the rain ever stop her in her journey to overcome past heartaches?

Date of release
2019-03-13
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Mystery
Director
Irene Emma Villamor

Casting

Interesting facts

Ulan (transl. Rain) is a 2019 Filipino romantic drama film written and directed by Irene Villamor, starring Carlo Aquino and Nadine Lustre. The film, which uses elements of magic realism in its storytelling, is a coming-of-age story about a young woman named Maya, who grew up alternately fascinated and fearful of the rain, stalked by storms and the “tikbalang”.

Production

Villamor spent years writing the screenplay. The idea for the character of Maya originated from a five-minute narrative Villamor made as a film student of the University of the Philippines in 1999. The project is about a girl named Maya whose dream was to climb a tree in their backyard, but her mother would always catch and reprimand her. One day, she finally climbs it and sees a fantastic and she was wishing her mother could also see them.

Villamor sent an earlier version of the script to cinematographer Neil Daza in 2011. In 2018, Villamor again sent the script with the working title “Si Maya, ang Ulan at ang mga Tikbalang” to Daza, who found it easy to say yes to doing the project.

On June 20, 2018, a story conference was made by Viva Entertainment to announce the new film entitled Ulan which was to star Nadine Lustre and Xian Lim, together with Marco Gumabao and AJ Muhlach. Lim was then removed from the cast and was replaced by Carlo Aquino. The decision to replace Lim was due to scheduling conflict. According to Villamor, getting Aquino, whom she had already worked with in the 2018 romantic movie Meet Me in St.

Villamor describes Lustre, who plays the lead role of Maya, as “a modern Filipina and really has that depth to understand concepts like this. And brave enough to plunge in to a role of Maya." On the first day of filming, Nadine Lustre and Villamor sat down to talk for almost an hour, discussing what the film means for the both of them.

Actress Mercedes Cabral and actor Dingdong Dantes served as the voice actors for the tikbalang couple whom the lead character Maya befriends as a child. Villamor has worked with Dantes in the 2018 romantic movie Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story.

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