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Rental Love (Kiralık Aşk)

Rental Love (Kiralık Aşk) (translated)

TV Series · 2015–2017 · 21 people

Ortaks Yapım produced the Turkish romantic comedy series Kiralık Aşk (Love for Rent), broadcast on Star TV. Adapted from a South Korean series, it premiered on June 19, 2015 and ended on January 20, 2017, after two seasons and 69 episodes. It won the Golden Butterfly Award for Best Comedy Series.

The story begins when Defne, a young woman who lives with her grandmother, brother and sister, runs out of options and accepts a six-month game of love: she must make Ömer, one of the country's most successful businessmen, fall for her. Elçin Sangu plays Defne and Barış Arduç plays Ömer. The game gradually turns into a tangled love triangle, with Salih Bademci as Sinan, Sinem Öztürk as Yasemin, Levent Ülgen as Necmi and Nergis Kumbasar as Neriman among the principal players. The show also asks whether we choose love or love chooses us.

Meriç Acemi wrote the series, and it was directed in turn by Metin Balekoğlu, Barış Yöş and Şenol Sönmez. It was shown on MBC 4 in the Arab world, dubbed into Arabic in the Syrian dialect, where the dubbed version reached 202 episodes. In Serbia its first season aired on Prva.

DirectorMetin Balekoğlu, Barış Yöş, Şenol Sönmez
Production companyOrtaks Yapım
NetworkStar TV
Rental Love (Kiralık Aşk)

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Kiralık Aşk rests on an idea you can sum up in one sentence but that has to be fed across two seasons and 69 episodes: out of options, Defne agrees to a six-month game of love in which she must make Ömer, one of the country's most successful businessmen, fall for her. The chemistry between Elçin Sangu and Barış Arduç is the show's biggest asset. As the game gradually becomes a tangled love triangle involving Salih Bademci's Sinan and Sinem Öztürk's Yasemin, the story gains new layers. But keeping a secret like this going for so long also risks the same misunderstandings going round and round in the middle stretch.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

The question at the heart of Kiralık Aşk is an old and lovely one: do we choose love, or does love choose us? The distance between Defne, a young woman out of options who lives with her grandmother and siblings, and Ömer, one of the country's most successful businessmen, is like a modern costume for Yeşilçam's tales of the rich man and the girl with troubles. Elçin Sangu and Barış Arduç make the game endearing. The idea of a love bought with money is a rather calculated starting point compared with the pure feeling of the old films, and one needs a little time to warm to its sincerity.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

There are no chases in Kiralık Aşk, but there is a mission of sorts: Defne has six months to make Ömer fall for her. That deadline, and the chance of the game being exposed, add a little tension to the romantic comedy. In the end, though, it is a love story, and by nature of the genre dialogue and feelings come first. Fine if you want something light; if you are after a fast pace, this isn't it.

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