MundoMax to premiered “Azucar’
May 10, 2016
MundoMax’s new telenovela, Azúcar (Sugar) premiered on Tuesday, May 3rd at 8PM/7C. Starring Juan Pablo Gamboa, Indhira Serrano, Carolina López, Jair Romero and Camila Porras.
Originally produced by RCN Television Group, Azúcar combines lavish period sets, exhilarating shots of the Colombian landscape and stellar performances by some of the hottest actors in Spanish-language television into an epic tale of forbidden love, passion, betrayal and a deadly curse.
Initially set in the 1940’s, Azúcar follows the story of the Solaz family, owners of one of the most successful and powerful sugarcane plantations in Colombia. Their endless fields of sugarcane stretch out for miles, but their lives change forever when patriarch Manuel Maria Solaz begins a forbidden love affair with his housekeeper, Sixta. The affair is short-lived, but results in Sixta giving birth to Manuel’s son, Maximiliano. As Manuel’s first-born son, Maximiliano is heir to the sugarcane plantation and the entire Solaz fortune. When Manuel’s wife, Matilde, learns of the affair and the newborn baby, Matilde takes Maximiliano from Sixta and banishes Sixta from the plantation. Devastated over the loss of Maximiliano and her home, Sixta places a curse on Matilde that alters the Solaz family’s destiny: “Every woman that carries a Solaz child in their womb will die upon birth, until love once again reunites what has been separated.” From that moment onward, three generations of the Solaz family suffer the effects of Sixta’s revenge, with each generation desperately hoping that their love will finally break the curse.