Habang Kapiling Ka | |
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Genre | Melodrama, Action |
Created by | GMA Entertainment TV Group |
Developed by | Elmer Gatchalian |
Directed by | Maryo J. de los Reyes |
Starring |
Angelika dela Cruz Victor Neri Albert Martinez Snooky Serna Tonton Gutierrez Chin Chin Gutierrez Ruffa Gutierrez Zoren Legaspi Alma Moreno Amy Perez Richard Gutierrez Toni Gonzaga Chynna Ortaleza Railey Valeroso |
Country of origin | Philippines |
No. of episodes | 248 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Redgynn Alba |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | GMA Network |
Original release | November 4, 2002 | – October 17, 2003
Chronology | |
Related shows | Umulan Man o Umaraw |
Habang Kapiling Ka (While I'm With You) is a Philippine primetime soap opera of GMA Network. The series was led by drama actress Angelika dela Cruz fresh from the success of her top-rating primetime drama series Ikaw Lang Ang Mamahalin.
The powerhouse cast includes Albert Martinez, Snooky Serna, Tonton Gutierrez, Ruffa Gutierrez, Alma Moreno, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Zoren Legaspi, Amy Perez and Victor Neri. This series marked the career beginnings of TV host-actress Toni Gonzaga, Chynna Ortaleza and Richard Gutierrez. It became the first TV drama premiered under the Kapuso banner after releasing GMA Network's current official heart logo a week ago. The series was successfully shown in Malaysia and Singapore via TV3. In 2008-2009, it was re-aired on GMA Life TV.
Habang Kapiling Ka initially plunges us into the world of three young people — Erica (Angelika dela Cruz), Emilie (Toni Gonzaga), and Pierre Paolo (Railey Valeroso) — whose lives become necessarily intertwined by fate and a moment’s decision during a stormy night.
On one level, this is the story of women, mothers, daughters, lovers who are out to get the best in the world for the people they love.
It is also the story of fathers, sons and brothers, who must come to terms with each other and accept the animosity and conflict that brews in their relationships.
Olivia Malvaroza (Snooky Serna) gives birth to an apparently stillborn child. In the other room, Paulina (one of Olivia’s servants) dies after giving birth to Pierre Paolo. Paulina’s sister, Salve Capistrano (Alma Moreno), upon seeing a boy destined to grow up without a mother, and a mother who will be devastated with the death of her child, only had a split second to make her decision. With only the best interest in mind, Salve switches the children, assuring Pierre Paolo of the sure, easy life of the Malvarozas. What she did not expect is that Olivia’s child Erica is still alive and that Paulina carries a second child, a baby girl (Emilie), in her womb. Later, they will learn of Marius Malvaroza’s (Tonton Gutierrez) death in a plane crash who had been hurrying to be with his wife.