Kasr al Hob, or the Palace of Love in English is a Turkish Drama that just finished airing two days ago on MBC. In Turkish, the name of this drama is Asmali Konak, literally translating into the Ivy Mansion. Different translations yet the same brilliant story!
Let me start with the plot and storyline. The story is of a very important family. In the first episode, a tragic event takes place which is the death of the head of the family and the beloved husband and father. Husam, the oldest son, takes the place of his father as agha and all the responsibility of the family business rests on his shoulders. His life is split in between New York and Turkey.
When Husam is in New York, he meets a beautiful girl, Maram, and they fall in love and decide to get married. Maram is an artistic person and is very liberal unlike Husam's family. Yet he chooses to take her home and they marry. At first, his mother, Suad Khanom, objects to the marriage. But as the story progresses, Maram and Suad develop a good relationship. All of the characters' lives revolve around this Palace, that is not in Istanbul, but in Antalya I think in a very strange and alien landscape full of big rocks and desert, which adds to the charm of the show.
After Maram and Husam get married, they have a beautiful baby daughter, Hayat that changes their lives for the better. Throughout the episodes, the characters encounter problems, big and small and how they solve these. The theme of Kasr al Hob in my opinion, is eternal love. Nothing can damage or affect Husam and Maram's love.
At the end of the drama, Maram starts experiencing symptoms of dizziness, and low blood pressure. She is diagnosed with cancer and Husam is devastated. Maram is the only one that does not know of this, and is very optimistic. The whole family is shattered. Husam tells Maram that they have to go to New York because their company will be trading with another company in the United States. The true purpose is to have treatment in the US for Maram. Maram is ecstatic. After a heartbreaking scene of goodbyes and especially to Husam and Maram's daughter Hayat, they head off to New York. The last scene is of a sad scene of Hayat crying because her mother left her.
I was extremely upset that they had ended the show here, because I wanted to know if Maram lived or not. So I did a little research and found out that after the series, the director made a movie called Asmali Konan: Hayat, or the Ivy Mansion: Hayat. I watched it on YouTube in Turkish and tried to decipher what was happening from the English comments that I read. I'll post another article tomorrow on what happens in this movie!
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Yay! I'm so glad you're going to write about the ending because I was really disappointed that they didn't continue it...and I'm thinking like.."so....is she going to live or not?!" Can't wait for your next blog, keep up the excellent work,
and I agree it was really sad how Hayat was crying (but it was also kind of funny because she just broke out screaming lol and it was in slow motion too :~P) and especially how the rest were all crying but maram was completely oblivious as to why! I wonder how she's going to find out...well, I guess I'll see tomorrow! Toodleloo for now!
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I saw the movie on youtube and it was great. They go and see the dr. and she has an operation, she is well and they go for a walk at night then a man tries to rob marams necklace and housam shoot him but hits maram he then goes in shock and leaves her lying on the floor in an alley way. his family cant find him and maram is in a coma for a year. the family find him after is ring is found on a chinese girl selling food. she says that a homeless guy gave her it instead of money, they find the man and he robbed it off housam, they then find him who thinks that maram is dead. she later wakes from the coma and housam after he gets treated they are brought together and thats it
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