Netflix’s Mexican telenovela ‘The Five Juanas’ draws popularity in Bangladesh

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Gradually, Mexican telenovela ‘The Five Juanas’, which is streaming on Netflix is becoming increasingly popular within the viewers in Bangladesh. Netflix has continually released new and interesting content in 2021 from all over the world, and on October 6, 2021 the streamer added a thrilling new Mexican telenovela called ‘The Five Juanas’. The new series is based on the 1997 Colombian telenovela created by Bernardo Romero Pereiro, with Netflix’s remake written by Pereiro’s daughter, Jimena Romero.

The new series tells the story of five women who randomly meet one day in Cancun. They quickly discover that they all have the same name, “Juana,” and each have a unique fish-shaped birthmark on their butt. Through this strange connection, Juana Manuela (Zuria Vega), Juana Valentina (Renata Notni), Juana Caridad (Oka Giner), Juana Matilde (Juanita Arias), and Juana Bautista (Sofia Engberg) discover that they are all daughters of one man, an aspiring politician, and their family ties are a lot darker and more sinister than they first appear.

Most interestingly, Mexican actress Oka Giner and Renata Martínez Notni (also known as Renata Nothi) has already become a popular name among the subscribers of Netflix in Bangladesh. Majority of the people are becoming fans of Renata Nothi and Oka Giner. Even some large film and drama production houses in Bangladesh are showing particular interest in Renata Nothi for her extremely glamorous look and acting skill.

Scene from Mexican telenovela ‘The Five Juanas’

Renata Martínez Notni was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. As a child, she attended acting lessons at CEA Infantil, the children’s version of drama school, Centro de Educación Artística, run by Televisa in Mexico City.

She made her acting debut in the 2006 telenovela, Código Postal, when she was 10 years old. Since then, she has had roles in eight telenovelas including Mar de amor and Amorcito Corazón. She has also participated in the Mexican television series, La rosa de Guadalupe and Como dice el dicho. In 2014, she briefly relocated to New York City and enrolled in an acting course at Stella Adler Acting Studio. In November 2014, she traveled to Madrid to film, Yo quisiera, a youth-oriented television series, serving as her first acting role outside of Mexico. She received word that she had been cast as the lead in Televisa’s upcoming telenovela, Amor de barrio, shortly after finishing her acting class. Her participation in the telenovela was official confirmed in March 2015. The part was Notni’s first starring role. Amor de barrio aired weekdays on Canal de las Estrellas beginning June 4, 2015. The telenovela’s finale aired on November 8, 2015.

Following the conclusion of Amor de barrio, Notni was cast in a role in the psychological thriller play, Las que no sienten. The play premiered in November 2015 in at Teatro en Corto in Mexico City on November 5, 2015. It ran until December 15, 2015. On November 18, 2015, she attended an open casting call for a role in producer Juan Osorio’s upcoming telenovela, Sueño de amor. On November 26, 2015, Notni was confirmed for one of the lead youth roles in the telenovela. Filming began in late December 2015, and the telenovela premiered in Mexico on February 22, 2016. It premiered in the U.S on Univision on March 8, 2016.

In 2017 she was the main role at the series Mi adorable maldición (English: My Sweet Curse). She played part as Aurora a girl showered by misfortunes and everybody used to believe she was cursed.

What Bangladeshi production companies say about Renata Notni?

Bangladesh’s largest production company and content provider Crown Entertainment is looking for casting Renata Notni in their future projects, which currently are in pre-production level. The company is planning to produce a large number of web-series, web-films and full-length feature films targeting international OTT platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Disney, jointly with Mexican film production companies.

Mexican actress Renata Martínez Notni is becoming a known name in Bangladesh

Commenting on Mexican actress Renata Notni, Crown Entertainment’s Deputy CEO Tajul Islam said, “She is a brilliant actress and would be fit for any action-filled movie in particular. Currently our company is getting lots of inquiries of Indian OTT platforms, while we also are looking for releasing our contents of Netflix, Amazon and other international OTT platforms. As Mexican film and drama industry are extremely skilled with actors and actresses having background of studying in schools of acting, we believe, a cooperation between Crown Entertainment and Mexican production houses would be mutually beneficial. We would like to work with them indeed, and of course, Renata Notni is in our mind”.

Few days ago, this newspaper published a report on the popularity of another Mexican actress Oka Giner and since then, a large number of our readers have been asking for publishing interviews of Oka Giner and Renata Notni. Our reporters are trying to contact these Mexican actresses.

What are the secrets of popularity of Mexican actresses in Bangladesh? Replying to this question, Syed Iqbal, Chief Operations Officer of Crown Creations, a fastest-growing advertising and marketing agency, which is working in television, YouTube and OTT sectors said, “They are skilled actors. This is number one reason. Second reason is, Bangladesh traditionally has very warm relations with Mexico and the Mexican people. They are our friendly nation and this is one of the main reasons behind popularity of Mexican productions and actors. Most importantly, we both have lots of similarities in family and social lives”.

Netflix’s Mexican telenovela ‘The Five Juanas’

‘The Five Juanas’ has 18 episodes total, with the story following the sisters as they attempt to get revenge on their corrupt, newly-discovered family. Over the course of Season 1, quite a lot of drama and intense action happens, and it can get a little confusing. To help you out, here’s the ending of “The Five Juanas” Season 1 explained.

Throughout all of “The Five Juanas” Season 1, the sisters come to realize that their real father, Simón Marroquín (Carlos Ponce), who initially doesn’t know of their existence, is involved in a lot of sketchy political and economical ventures, spearheaded by Simón’s father, Rogelio Marroquín (Fernando Becerril). After Simón is killed, it’s Rogelio who the women have to look out for, and so they enact a plan to finally get their revenge on the Marroquín family.

Part of Rogelio’s illegal activities include kidnapping and selling young women into the sex trade, using Manuela’s club as a way to funnel money through. So far, Rogelio has managed to keep himself from being directly associated with any criminal aspects of his business. With the help of some key allies, the five sisters are able to clear themselves of any connection to Rogelio and get him arrested for money laundering and other crimes, sending him to jail. Going even further, some people scorned by Rogelio murder him and frame it as a suicide, doing the same thing Rogelio does earlier to his son Simón and others he decides to get rid of.

Thanks to the success of their revenge mission, the five sisters are now officially free to do as they please. The young women each explore their dreams and romance, and the first season of “The Five Juanas” seems to end on a positive note. The five women, who at first are complete strangers, have now become a family together. The ending of the season also highlights the various romances that have developed between some characters, like Matilde and Lorenzo (Jorge Antonio Guerrero).

Glamarous Mexican actress Renata Martínez Notni

Of course, there are still some complications to work through. In particular, there’s the relationship between Valentina and Federico Marroquín (Iván Amozurrutia), whose family ties should put a wrench in their love, but going by how the season ends, they don’t seem to care too much. Matilde will continue to pursue her singing career while Manuela runs her club, and the other sisters have to now find their own way through life without the revenge mission to drive them.

The final episode of “The Five Juanas” Season 1 ends with one major cliffhanger, and that’s the reveal that there is another sister out there, presumably also named Juana. The episode show a young woman doing a puzzle with the same fish birthmark on her butt. Nothing else is revealed about her yet, but it’s sure to be where the story picks up if the Mexican telenovela is renewed for Season 2.

With this reveal, the show hints that there may actually be more than one more girl out there like the sisters. Along with that, there is sure to be plenty more family drama as well. Even with both Simón and Rogelio dead, there’s a lot of history of manipulation and secrets that the women can uncover. Considering the many twists and turns of Season 1, what the sisters think they know now could also be proven false, and their peace and happiness might be completely destroyed.

The end of “The Five Juanas” Season 1 doesn’t give any indication as to how the sisters might cross paths with this new young woman with an identical birthmark, but the final twist leaves fans of the series eager to find out what happens next.

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