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Ikaw na Sana

1998 film by Mac Alejandre

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5995476 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ikaw na Sana (transl. hope it is you / international title: Destiny) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Angelu de Leon and Bobby Andrews. It premiered on March 17, 1997. The series concluded on April 3, 1998, with a total of 272 episodes.

The series was later adapted into a film of the same title.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ikaw na Sana” is 1998 film by Mac Alejandre. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ikaw, Sana and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-01-01. For this dossier, Ikaw, Sana and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1998 film by Mac Alejandre” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5995476. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1998.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ikaw na Sana”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ikaw na Sana primary sources, Ikaw na Sana archive and Ikaw research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ikaw na Sana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.