Moranak Meada is a Khmer 2004 fantasy/drama film which received several awards in Khmer film festival including second prize of silver award for best movies. The film based on Khmer old folk tales which similar to Thai legend Bla Boo Thong and European fairy taleCinderella.
Plot
After her mother was killed by her father during the fishing, Kanika got a new name from the mother's death meaning Moranak Meada. Moranak Meada did a very hard work every day as her life full of sadness and misery as well as she was hit and attacked by her cruel, lazy stepmother and stepsisters including her uncarable father. However, her mother's body turned into a Catfish in order to take care of her when she was sad. But the stepmother knew and started a plan to kill the poor Catfish by using her daughter who had a face like Moranak Meada to deceived Catfish into the trap and killed it to make food. Moranak Meada found out and cried alone under the house but a talking duck gave her the fin of her mother, so she could plant it as it probably turned in the eggplant but the stepmothers still cut out the eggplant and grilled it for food again but moranak meada still found the plant's leaf and buried it far away from the house as it suddenly grew as a little golden banyan tree which could talk to her every time she wanted to. Many years later, Moranak Meada grew up as a beautiful and kind girl. Meanwhile, a Young King visited the village and loved the little banyan tree and ordered his servant to take it but they couldn't until he asked Moranak Meada for it as well as he crowned her as his Queen. However, the stepmother and stepsisters started a plan to kill her and changed some faced daughter as Moranak Meada but the king knew and punish the fake Moranak Meada by killed her and chopped her for food, sent to her mother. The Mother and family was afraid and tried to run but was killed by a cobra. Now, Moranak Meada was turned into a bird by a fairy and flew to live with her husband for waiting for becoming human again, but one of the king's girls hated the bird and wanted to destroy it. But the bird was then rescued by a white king mouse which then killed the king's girl by biting her nose. Three years later, the king found Moranak Meada as the human and now with a three-year-old son. They finally returned to the palace and lived happily ever after.
