In less than one week from now,
celebrated actor and filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, will be jetting out of
the country to Paris. In a telephone interview with our correspondent on
Tuesday, he said the purpose of the trip was to supervise the
post-production of his film-in-progress titled, October 1.
Bubbling with enthusiasm, Afolayan
believes the movie will shock many fans in terms of its thematic content
and the quality of cine matography.
“Nobody has ever attempted this kind of
movie before. At the risk of being immodest, I dare say that it is in a
class of its own. So many things have been put together in the movie.
The objective is to enable Nigerians, especially the younger generation,
to come to terms with certain facts about our past as a nation. Most
young people have no knowledge of what actually transpired in the
country in the period leading to national independence. I have unveiled
this in the film,” he said.
The director, who has recorded layers of
success in his relatively young movie career, noted that beyond
providing entertainment to millions of movie fans in the country,
October 1 seeks to unearth vital information about the actual roles of
played by key nationalists in the foundation of Nigeria.
He prefers to describe the upcoming
movie as an “informative documentary” feature film. “It is actually a
detective movie is focused on the activities of a serial killer.
Everything happens on Independence Day,” he added.
Movie fans are advised to watch out for
plenty of drama, a quality for which Afolayan’s films are well known,
and a cast that includes some of the very best actors and actresses in
the Nigerian film industry. The roll-call includes the filmmaker
himself, legendary Sadiq Daba and Bimbo Manuel.
Afolayan’s oeuvre, no doubt driven by an
innate attachment to his immediate social, cultural and political
environment, will be further enriched by the arrival of the new film on
the entertainment scene.
Trained at the prestigious New York Film
Academy, USA, his previous films include ‘The Figurine’, which won five
major awards at the African Film Academy; ‘Araromire and ‘Phone Swap’.
Culled from Punchng
