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A newly-produced film, ‘Nini’, has raised discussions connected household and societal issues that impact the pistillate and girl-child.
Written, directed, and produced by Dr Sam Idiagbonya, the movie tells the communicative of betrayal and triumph. When a young woman, Nini (Mariah Ugbashi), breaks a committedness to her mother, her beingness takes a careening spiral, unravelling secrets and betrayals that teardrop their familial bonds apart.
Packing a prima formed including veterans Jide Kosoko, Tina Mbah, Keppy Ekpeyong, Chinyere Wilfred, Francis Duru, Yemi Blaq and rising stars Imo Chimezie and Mariah Ugbashi, the movie raises issues of the dangers of modern parenting, the dearth of communal upbringing of children, and the value of addressing issues concerning the antheral kid alongside the miss child.
At the movie premiere precocious successful Abuja, seasoned histrion Tina Mbah said she was attracted to the communicative and the topical familial issues it raises that Nigeria, arsenic a society, arsenic families, expanse nether the carpet due to the fact that they are excessively discomforting to discuss.
Beyond the contented of household secrets, predators and prey raised successful the movie, Mbah highlights the request for parents to ‘parent well’.
According to her, determination is simply a request to instrumentality to the aged ways of parenting – “where a assemblage raises a child, wherever the kid is taught to beryllium morally conscious, worth integrity and to beryllium their brother’s keeper” – and distant from the modern-day – “where everybody is connected his oregon her own, until catastrophe occurs.
“Today, a nine-year-old and a 14-year-old are moving up and down trying to bargain a Benz. My question is, “Don’t they person parents? How did it get to this point? These acts by the children are a outcry for help, due to the fact that they deliberation they tin beryllium erstwhile they person these things. But it is similar a drug, the much they take, the much they get precocious connected it, and truthful they escalate their outcry for assistance into committing crimes, astir of the time.”
For histrion Yemi Blaq, the champion means of addressing the rampant issues astir the girl-child is done the acquisition of the boy/male-child to beryllium amended behaved. Beyond the acquisition of the antheral kid alongside the girls, helium said girls should beryllium taught to place and admit gentlemanly manners too.
“Chivalry is not dead. A batch of men bash judge successful being gentlemanly, myself included. I person often been successful situations wherever I americium being gentlemanly and the ladies successful question conscionable locomotion by without acknowledgement oregon appreciation of what has been done. That is what puts disconnected immoderate men.”
For his part, Ekpeyong hoped that Nigerians would admit “the deeper sentiments explored by the movie and not get carried distant by the embellishments.” Such embellishments see the rising emotion of villains successful movies by movie audiences, successful particular, villains with a catchphrase similar the quality Femi’s (Antar Laniyan): “This is not necessary.”
It is 1 happening to admit a analyzable villain who whitethorn not oregon person experienced a quality arc similar Creasy (Denzel Washington) successful Man connected Fire, oregon Moon Baek (Kim Young Kwan) successful the Korean movie Trigger. Not for shallow reasons similar the carnal look of the quality who portrays them oregon their catchphrase.
Ekpeyong is, however, assured that Nigerians similar movies with bully plots. “If you enactment retired a bully thing, we spot it, admit it, and then, we gyrate towards that. That’s the instrumentality of attraction.”
Inspired much by imaginativeness than real-life acquisition oregon events, Idiagbonya assured the assemblage to expect much of specified intricate plotlines successful his upcoming projects via Fedmas Studios.
‘Nini’ opens contiguous successful 70 cinemas nationwide.
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