Fighting crime pays for Sant
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Former police chief Sant Sarutanond is known to enjoy exotic and luxurious things, and we sure got an eyeful when he invited Health & Cuisine magazine into his home on Sukhumvit Road to watch him cook.
Your kitchen has some pepper and a seal-packed chicken breast, maybe a carrot. Sant’s kitchen has Iranian caviar, hairy crabs from Shanghai, smoked ham from Spain, Matsusake beef from Japan, conch meat from China’s Hainan Island and chunk of a bird from Guangzhou that he called nok khao.
Trucks deliver this stuff straight from the airport to his freezer. He buys in bulk in case his favourite restaurants like Le Normandie are booked up.
He must be getting fat, you wish behind your envy. No, Sant exercises three or four times a week, 30 minutes per session. And when he sweats he emits the bouquet of a fine wine.
Flood: The Movie
The inspiration that people managed to draw from the flood disaster reaches another pinnacle in the new film “Rak Ou-yoo”, a romantic comedy from director Poj Anon and actor Rattapoom “Film” Tokongsup. The title uses the phrase ou-yoo, often uttered by Prime Minister Yingluck shinawatra to assure us that everything was manageable. And so it was – eventually.
“I talked to Phi Poj about doing this project because we hadn’t seen anyone interested in making a movie about the flood crisis,” says Film. “We wanted to make a movie that people could smile over and be moved by the goodness and hospitality we all witnessed during the crisis.”
Poj thought it was a great idea, and Film thought it was such a great idea that he put his own money into it. Then they had to move fast because the flooding was already abating in many areas.
Film says he’s “quite proud” of the first movie he’s ever bankrolled but he gives all the credit to Poj, especially for coming up with a cast including newcomer actresses who were willing to work so hard.
