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Today marks the return of Bituing Walang Ningning at the Newport Performing Arts Theater. It will run all through all weekends of October, take a quick break in November, and return for another two-month run starting December.
We all know that the musicial is adapted from the movie with the same title. It starred Sharon Cuneta and Cherie Gil spawned the ever-quoted “trying hard copycat” line and produced the hit of the same name. It originally showed in theaters in 1985. That was 30 frickin’ years ago, a landmark number that should inspire a list.
And inspire a list, it did. We looked back at the last 30 years of Philippine cinema, remembered some of the best movie theme songs from that time period, looked for them and put them together in a playlist on our Spotify channel. Check it out below, and follow!
Joining the likes of Rey Valera, George Canseco and Basil Valdez are some almost-forgotten tunes from the ‘90s, like Roselle Nava’s “Dahil Mahal na Mahal Kita” featured in the Claudine Barretto-starrer of the same name, several Ogie Alcasid hits featured in several movies (Kailangan Kita is one of them), Gary V (remember “How Did You Know”?), and more.
We threw in several Aga Mulach movies with the same song titles: May Minamahal, Bakit Labis Kitang Mahal, and Forever — the last one was Mikee Conjuangco’s debut movie. And while we decided to forego songs like “Pare Ko” because the song is bigger than the movie, we chose to include several new ones like Up Dharma Down‘s “Tadhana” (featured in That Thing Called Tadhana) and Khavn de la Cruz’s “Ruined Heart” to stand for this era’s indie success.
We know we missed a few golden theme songs, your favorites we’re guessing, so yasss! Keep your suggestions coming and we’ll continue to update this playlist! Cheers to cinema, guys! And cheers to OPM!
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