How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

2024 Thai film
  • Pat Boonnitipat
  • Thodsapon Thiptinnakorn
Produced by
  • Vanridee Pongsittisak
  • Jira Maligool
Starring
  • Putthipong Assaratanakul
  • Usha Seamkhum
  • Sanya Kunakorn
  • Sarinrat Thomas
  • Tontawan Tantivejakul
CinematographyBoonyanuch KraithongEdited byThammarat SumethsupachokMusic byJaithep Raroengjai
Production
company
Jor Kwang Films
Distributed byGDH
Release date
  • April 4, 2024 (2024-04-04)
Running time
125 minutesCountryThailandLanguages
  • Thai
  • Teochew
Box office฿168.16 million (Bangkok, Metropolitan & Chiang Mai)
฿320.7 million (nationwide)
(as of May 26, 2024)[1]

How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies or Lahn Mah (Thai: หลานม่า, lit: "grandma's grandchild") is a 2024 Thai drama film directed and co-written by Pat Boonnitipat and starring Putthipong Assaratanakul, Usha Seamkhum.

Storyline

M, a teenage university student who dropped out of school to become a game caster, a career he hopes will make him a lot of money, but it wasn't as he thought. M saw an example from Mui, a young cousin who inherited a mansion worth tens of millions from being the caretaker her dying Agong[a]. M volunteers to take care of his Amah[b], who has terminal cancer and lives alone, hoping for an inheritance.

Cast

  • Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a young man who dropped out of school to take care of his grandma
  • Usha Seamkhum as Amah, Mengju or colloquially Amah, a 79-year-old woman with late-stage colon cancer and living alone
  • Sarinrat Thomas as Chew, Mengju's only daughter and M's single mom
  • Sanya Kunakorn as Kiang, Mengju's eldest son
  • Pongsatorn Jongwilas as Soei, Mengju's youngest child, a failure worker
  • Himawari Tajiri as Rainbow, Kiang and Pinn's only daughter
  • Tontawan Tantivejakul as Mui, M's cousin
  • Duangporn Oapirat as Pinn, Kiang's wife

Production

How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies or locally known as Lahn Mah is one of the projects of GDH in 2023. At first it will be titled The Chinese Family , because the content is about the relationships of Sino Thai family members.[2]The film was inspired by true events that happened in contemporary Thai society.

The cast is headed by popular teen idol Putthipong "Billkin" Assaratanakul, and also the first performance of the senior actress Usha Seamkhum.[3]

Talat Phlu, a traditional community recognized as one of Bangkok's Chinatowns, was chosen as the filming location. By simulating it to be Amah's neighbourhood.[4]

Release

The film's first release date is April 4, 2024. In just the first 14 days, it was able to gross 250 million baht nationwide, making it the highest-grossing Thai film of the first half of 2024.[1] Later, it made a record of being the 11th highest grossing Thai film of all time and the highest-grossing GDH film in Bangkok, Metropolitan Region and Chiang Mai.

In Indonesia, the film was released on May 15, 2024 and has been a huge hit. It is considered the highest-grossing GDH film in Indonesia. It has also been shown in Cinema XXI, Indonesia's largest cinema chain.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Teochew means grandpa.
  2. ^ Teochew means grandma.

References

  1. ^ a b "หลานม่า รายได้ล่าสุด ขึ้นแท่นอันดับ 1 หนังทำเงินสูงสุดในรอบปี". Sanook.com (in Thai). 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  2. ^ Sivapornpan, Supat (2023-06-29). "บิวกิ้น พุฒิพงศ์ – ตู ต้นตะวัน รับบทนำใน The Chinese Family หนังเรื่องใหม่จากผู้กำกับ พัฒน์ บุญนิธิพัฒน์". The Standard (in Thai). Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  3. ^ "เกือบได้เป็นนักร้องวงสุนทราภรณ์ในวัยเยาว์ "อุษา เสมคำ" สู่น้องใหม่ในการแสดงในวัย 78". ASTV Manager (in Thai). 2024-03-20. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  4. ^ "ชวนเที่ยว ตลาดพลู ตามหา อาม่า". MCOT (in Thai). 2024-04-14. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  5. ^ "หลานม่า เปิดตัวแรง ทำชาวอินโดน้ำตาท่วม ขึ้นแท่นหนังไทย ทำรายได้เปิดตัวสูงสุด". Thairath (in Thai). 2024-05-18. Retrieved 2024-05-21.

External links

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