Under the Veil

Under the Veil
無雙譜

Under the Veil official poster
Also known as Double Fantasies
Genre Period drama, Romance, Fantasy
Created by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited
Written by Cheung Chung-yan
Directed by Leung Yiu-kin, Cheng Wing-kei, Kwow Ka-hei, Lui Sui-lun
Starring Wayne Lai
Bosco Wong
Kristal Tin
Raymond Wong
Sonija Kwok
Eliza Sam
Katy Kung
Joseph Lee
Theme music composer Alan Cheung
Opening theme One and Only (獨一無二) by Vincy Chan
Country of origin Hong Kong
Original language(s) Cantonese
No. of episodes 20
Production
Executive producer(s) Catherine Tsang
Producer(s) Law Chun-ngok
Location(s) Hong Kong
Editor(s) Siu Lei-king
Camera setup Multi camera
Running time 45 minutes (without commercials)
Production company(s) TVB
Release
Original network TVB Jade, HD Jade
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release 28 September (2015-09-28) – 23 October 2015 (2015-10-23)
External links
Website
Under the Veil
Chinese 無雙譜
Literal meaning "Double Fantasies"

Under the Veil (Chinese: 無雙譜; Jyutping: Mou4 Soeng1 Pou2; Cantonese Yale: Mòuh Sēung Póu; literally "Have no equal in this world" etymology from Chinese idiom 舉世無雙) is a 2015 Hong Kong period, fantasy, comedy drama produced by TVB, starring Wayne Lai, Bosco Wong, Kristal Tin, Raymond Wong Ho-yin, Sonija Kwok, Eliza Sam, Katy Kung and Joseph Lee as the main cast.[1] Filming took place from January to April 2014. The drama is broadcast on Hong Kong's Jade and HD Jade channels from September 28 till October 23, 2015 every Monday through Friday during its 8:30-9:30 pm timeslot with a total of 20 episodes.

The drama is the second of TVB's four 2015 grand anniversary dramas to be broadcast.[2]

Under the Veil is a remake of TVB's 1981 drama Double Fantasies (無雙譜), starring Louise Lee, Maggie Li, Andy Lau, Kent Tong.[3]

Synopsis

The drama is told in three separate folklore stories about love, lust, vanity, greed and selfishness.

Changing Pins

Male and female fraternal twins, with the same appearance, fall in love with different people. The older male twin has an affair with a Princess of the Liao Kingdom, while the female twin falls in love with a poor scholar with amnesia.

Dyun Fung-Sam and Dyun So-Sei are boy-girl twins from the royal Dyun Family. Fung-Sam is an elder boy of the twins. He grew up with prince Sing-Chi. Sing-Chi suspect the old General Song Dak and his son are trying to rebel against the king and are secretly contacting the Liao Kingdom. Sing-Chi ask Fung-Sam to help them gain evidence of their treachery by becoming a spy in Liao.

Fung-Sam gets close to the princess of Liao to gather the intel and falls in love with her. After his success, the princess committed a suicide as an apology to her kingdom.

When Fung-Sam is back with evidence; a secret letter written by Song-Dak to the king of Liao which says if Song-Dak became the emperor, he would contribute the 16 States of Yanyun to Liao. Fung-Sam passes the evidence to prince Sing-Chi while Sing-chi is using the flood-control methods to avoid Song-Dak's spying.

When Sing-Chi and Fung-Sam are coming back to the capital by ships, they are under strike by Song-Dak's son, General Song-Lit. After the attack, only Fung-sam and the prince survives. However, Sing-Chi gets trapped in a cliff, and Fung-Sam comes back to the capital with a deadly injury.

So-Sei has been pretending to be her elder brother to cover up his disappearance while he was in Liao and being cured. So-Sei asks her master, who is also Fung-Sam's master, to save Fung-Sam. She falls in love with her childhood friend Yuen Sam-Yeung who is a poor artist.

Shi Loi-Fung, which is used to be a princess of Kucha Kingdom. Her kingdom prays to a devil. However when the devil asked their group to contribute ten virgin boys and girls as sacrifices, they refused. In response, the devil vanquished the nation and people. Princess Lap-ka survived in the form of a statue. When the prince of the Song Dynasty, Chiu Sing-Chin, attempts to rescue her, Lap-ka transforms into a bird. She is renamed Shi Loi-Fung by Chiu Sing-Chi.

During the strike on ships, she was trying to rescue Sing-Chi against Song-Lit's wizard-craft but lost. Later, she enters Fung-Sam's dream, calling the re-enforcement. Fung-Sam doesn't understand the bird language so she ask her master to help. With Loi-Fung's help, Fung-Sam and his master finally found out the cliff and saved Sing-Chi from the cliff.

Song-Lit and his father was trying to sue Fung-Sam when he was in curing. However, So-Sei replaced her brother to make Song-Lit's trick fail. This caused Song-Lit knows that So-Sei was representing her brother there and Fung-Sam was hidden. Song-Lit and his father got the intel from Fung-Sam's reckless wife who is also Song-Dak's nephew and breaks into the place. Sou-Sei trying to stop him to harm her brother but poisoned by Song-Lit's flying-dagger. Fung-Sam and his master came back from the saving Sing-Chi's life to stop Song-Lit's further damage.

So-Sei died in her lover's hand. The secret letter was finally delivered to the Emperor King-Hei. Song-dak was judged for betrayal and got to jail.

Chapter Story ends here.

Judge Lu

A poor scholar has an affair with a courtesan that resembles his wife.

Chasing Fish

A scholar becomes the object of affection to a fish spirit and human girl with the same face.[4]

Cast

Main cast

Extended cast

Development

Viewership ratings

# Timeslot (HKT) Week Episode(s) Average points Peaking points
1
Mon – Fri
20:30–21:30
28 Sep –02 Oct 2015
1 — 5
23
27
2
05 – 09 Oct 2015
6 — 10
24
--
3
12 – 16 Oct 2015
11 — 15
24
--
4
19 – 23 Oct 2015
16 — 20
25
29
Total average
24
29

International broadcast

Network Country Airing Date Timeslot
Astro On Demand MalaysiaSeptember 28, 2015Monday - Friday 8:30 - 9:15 pm
TVBJ AustraliaSeptember 28, 2015 Monday - Friday 11:30 pm – 12:30 am
Starhub TV SingaporeJanuary 21, 2016Monday - Friday 8:00 - 9:00 pm

Awards & Nominations

Year Ceremony Category Nominee Result
2015 StarHub TVB Awards My Favourite TVB Drama Under the Veil Nominated
My Favourite TVB Actor Bosco Wong Nominated
My Favourite TVB Actress Eliza Sam Nominated
My Favourite TVB Supporting Actress Katy Kung Nominated
My Favourite TVB Male TV Character Bosco Wong Nominated
My Favourite TVB Female TV Character Eliza Sam Won
TVB Star Awards Malaysia My Favourite TVB Drama Series Under the Veil Nominated
TVB Anniversary Awards TVB Anniversary Award for Best Drama Under the Veil Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor Bosco Wong Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actress Eliza Sam Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor Joseph Lee Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actress Katy Kung Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Most Popular Male Character Bosco Wong Nominated
Joseph Lee Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Most Popular Female Character Eliza Sam Nominated
TVB Anniversary Award for Favourite Drama Song One and Only (獨一無二) by Vincy Chan Nominated

References

  1. ↑ Under the Veil AF page. Retrieved September 25, 2015
  2. ↑ 2015 TVB Anniversary Dramas: 'Lord of Shanghai', 'Captain of Destiny', 'Under the Veil', 'With or Without You'. Retrieved September 25, 2015
  3. ↑ Double Fantasies VCD info. Retrieved September 25, 2015
  4. ↑ 2015年TVB台慶劇《梟雄》《張保仔》《無雙譜》《東坡家事》(Chinese). Retrieved September 25, 2015
  5. ↑ Wayne Lai and Kristal Tin Star in “Double Fantasies” Remake. Retrieved September 25, 2015
  6. ↑ 《無雙譜》 "Double Fantasies" Costume Fitting. Retrieved September 25, 2015
  7. ↑ TVB Screens Upcoming Series at FILMART 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2015
  8. ↑ TVB Calendar 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015
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