Kung Mawawala Ka (found Filipino drama TV series; 2002-2003)

Title card of the show.

Status: Found

Date found: 08 Nov 2024

Kung Mawawala Ka (international title: A World Without You) is a political drama and romance TV series by GMA Network. It premiered on April 7^[1] or 22, 2002^[2] and concluded on June 6, 2003. It was directed by Joel Lamangan and mainly stars Sunshine Dizon and Cogie Domingo.

Aired during the weekdays, it was described as “the most ambitious teledrama” of GMA-7 then. It was the first regular teleserye of the late Eddie Garcia who played the character of Leandro Montemayor. It competed with ABS-CBN’s Pangako Sa ’Yo.^[3] The series won the Best Drama Series Award on the 16th PMPC Star Awards for TV with Eddie Garcia winning the Best Drama Actor award and Hilda Koronel winning the Best Drama Actress award.

It was known that Sunshine Dizon was rushed to the hospital due to hyperventilation during the taping of one of the episodes due to her and Cogie's kissing scene.^[3]

Plot

Promotional poster.

It is described as a modern retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story personified by Rosa Camila Montemayor (Sunshine Dizon) and Carlito Valiente (Cogie Domingo). Rosa disappointed her father by falling in love with Carlito. Camilla's father, Gov. Leandro Montemayor (Eddie Garcia), uses his power to take her away from the son of his political rival, Cong. Carlos Valiente (Vic Vargas). A struggle also happens among Leandro Montemayor’s women: Iluminada (Liza Lorena), his legal wife, to whom he has three children, Ernestina (Princess Punzalan), Alberto (Raymond Bagatsing), and Paloma (Alessandra de Rossi); Czarina (Gloria Diaz), the original mistress and mother to Lucinda (Ara Mina) and Amanda (Sharmaine Arnaiz); and finally Alicia (Hilda Koronel), the love of Leandro's life and mother to Rosa Camilla.

The story begins with the failed murder attempt on Gov. Montemayor’s life which consequently makes the three women and all their children suspects in the investigation.^[3]

Cast

Lead cast

Sunshine Dizon as Rosa Camilla Montemayor^[4]
Cogie Domingo as Carlito Valiente

Supporting cast

Eddie Garcia as Leandro Montemayor
Liza Lorena as Iluminada Montemayor
Gloria Diaz as Czarina Montemayor
Hilda Koronel as Alicia Montemayor
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Amanda Montemayor
Raymond Bagatsing as Alberto Montemayor
Princess Punzalan as Ernestina Montemayor
Alessandra de Rossi as Paloma Montemayor
Ara Mina as Lucinda Montemayor

Recurring cast

Armida Siguion-Reyna as Romina Salgado
Vic Vargas as Carlos Valiente
Marianne dela Riva as Cynthia Valiente
Iza Calzado as Phoebe Tuazon
Maybeline Dela Cruz as Guadalupe Valiente
Daniel Fernando as Alegre
Eddie Gutierrez as Tomas Locsin
Tony Mabesa as Asturias
Jay Manalo as Nestor Adorable
Spanky Manikan as Gonzalo
Jim Pebanco as Emil
Miko Sotto as Dindo
Jomari Yllana as Rafael
Malou Crisologo as Elaine
Daisy Reyes as Clarissa Rosales
Angie Castrence as Angie
Lara Fabregas as Marla Gatchalian
Ryan Ramos as Jonathan Quirino
Gardo Versoza as Edmund Amparo
JJ Zamora as Charlie Valiente

Availability

Print ad promoting its premiere from Philippine Daily Inquirer.

On 2020, the teleserye became trending especially on Twitter as fans urged GMA to reair the teleserye. Sunshine Dizon herself wants GMA to reair the TV series.^[2]^[3]

Clips of the show, especially in the show’s theme song music video are available on the Internet. In 2022, several GMA plugs resurfaced, including plugs of Kung Mawawala Ka.^[5] However, the series was said to be reaired internationally on GMA Pinoy TV and GMA Life TV though no recordings from the two channels are yet to be uploaded.

On November 8, 2024, GMA Network finally uploaded the first episode of Kung Mawawala Ka, with some of the music rescored to avoid copyright issues. To date, episodes are still continually getting uploaded.^[6]