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MOVIE REVIEW
DZ: I am a very private person, despite being
a music artiste. I am trying to do more on my
profession than my personal life. You can say
I am patiently waiting for the right relationship.
I want marriage to happen because I found
someone to spend the rest of my life with and
not because the society needs me to. But I have
a girlfriend, who I hope to do that with very soon.
MOVIE:
HF: You were DAGRIN’s closest pal, do you still
miss him?
DZ: Yes, every day, that’s partly why I haven’t
been visible. It took me a while to recover from
the shock. I have a song we did together which
I haven’t released, but it will be out pretty soon.
HF: Recount how growing up was for you?
DZ: Growing up was fun, I grew up in Lagos with
two other siblings, a brother and sister. I was an
inquisitive child and more inclined to technical
stuff. I remember trying to loosen the TV set
because I thought I would see Tom and Jerry
inside. I had a bit of street and home experience.
HF: We all have very memorable experiences,
what is yours?
DZ: That would be the first time I did a stage
performance in 2005, during the first JJC concert.
D’Banj was with them, I got very encouraging
cheers from the audience. It was very memorable
for me. I feel comfortable with the crowd when I
am performing and after that I retreat to my shell.
HF: What should your fans look forward to?
DZ: My album should drop much later this year,
but I will have two singles and videos out very
soon. I also have a franchise coming up through
my entertainment outfit Vanilla. I am merging
music and the business to achieve a lot more.
“Back then, I looked up to the likes of
DJ Jimmy Jatt, DJ Humility and Bamija.
These were the guys that made you
wish to be a music personality. I met
Freestyle later and admired his ability
to make awesome beats.”
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HF: What is your favorite quote in life?
DZ: Life goes on. A lot of things happen in
life either good or bad, so we should always
remember that life would always go on.
THE SINGLE AND MARRIED
THEME: Love, Relationship and Marriage
SCREENPLAY: Pascal Amanfo
PRODUCER: Yvonne Nelson
HF: Do you have any awards in your cart?
DZ: I have picked up a few nominations, but it’s
hard to remember them all except I go through
my plaque collections. The biggest for me was
The Headies Award, where my song Fokasibe
won the Best Street Hop.
HF: You have been absent from the scene, what
have you been up to?
DZ: I have been busy with other things, but I
have been working on my next album. It’s almost
complete.
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CAST: Yvonne Nelson, Nadia Buari, Chris Attoh, Kofi Adjorlolo,
Jane ‘Efya’ Awindor, Tana Adelana, Kweku Elliot, Tiffany Eddy
Watson.
COUNTRY: Ghana
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 40 minutes
YEAR: 2013
T
he movie centres on three friends and their husbands. They are
Jay and Kimora, Ray and Paula and of course Vida and Ranesh.
The first couple, Jay and Kimora have a good marriage, but
Kimora thinks a ‘blow job’ is abnormal and disgusting, while
Paula neglects her husband Ray and even starved him of sex
for 5 months and 2 weeks. Vida is almost thirty years younger
than her 59 yr old husband Ranesh who can’t satisfy her in bed
in spite of all his energetic sexual promises. The others, Judith, Andy, and Ruby
the narrator are extras who add vibe to the story.
The movie starts with Kimora’s surprise birthday party thrown by Jay her
boyfriend, who proposes to her at the same party, to the amazement and
happiness of all, except for his friend Andy who thinks he is making a mistake.
Andy tries to convince Jay against getting married, but Ray supports Jay. They
ended up having a very beautiful wedding ceremony, set in a fantastic scenery.
By Akudo Abengowe
With the narrator keeping us glued to the movie with titbits of what might happen
in the near future, all things eventually comes to a head. Paula confronts Ray and
tells him she knew about his affair with her friend. Jay confesses his relationship
with Judith to Kimora who moves out of the house, and Ranesh catches Vida and
Andy in a hot sex romp in his sitting room. Vida runs away, while Andy jumps from
the balcony and breaks his leg.
Kim and Paula go for counselling to save their marriage and eventually make up
with their husbands. Andy is caught by an ex-girlfriend Nancy who tells him she is
pregnant for him, he runs away. Nothing is heard of Vida and Ranesh again.
According to Ruby the narrator, these are five (5) rules you must observe in a
marriage;
1.
2.
The narrator tells us that ‘marriage is a game everyone plays’ and we see
Kimora, Paula and Vida discussing men and their cheating ways. Kimora says
confidently that her husband has never and will never cheat on her. Paula is
not big on the cheating issue as she concentrates all her energy on her law
practice, not minding what her husband does. I personally feel her character
over played her nonchalant attitude towards her marriage. You better pay the
man some attention girl!
Ray and Judith had another argument in which he tells her “Judith, you have
a place in my heart, but I love my wife” and walks out. He meets his friend
Andy in same hotel with another woman and they faced up the reality of their
unfaithfulness. Though Andy tries to justify their cheating, both friends are
filled with guilt.
Jay continues with his extra marital affair, Paula sets a trap for Ray with
her friend and he falls deeply into the trap, while Vida keeps having erotic
fantasies about her new neighbour Andy.
Paula gives her husband a timetable for sex; he retaliates by asking for a
divorce. Vida bluntly asks Andy for sex, calling herself ‘a sexually frustrated
suicidal woman’, Andy replies her that he spends an average of two hours
in bed. They start an amorous affair. While Kimora invites Judith (who
coincidentally is her friend) into her house for a month. This does not go down
well with her husband because Judith is his mistress.
Never let a girl with bigger boobs walk in front of your husband
3.
Never leave your wife unsatisfied
4.
If a hot unmarried neighbour moves into your neighbourhood, you
must do any of these three things. (1) Move to a new location (2) get
a divorce (3) check the paternity of your last child or (4) kill your wife.
5.
Enter Ruby, the narrator, who introduces herself in frenzy. She convinces the
audience that ‘a man must cheat because it’s in his DNA’ and no matter how
good a woman is or her efforts to make her marriage work, her man must
cheat. She is proven right. Fast forward to two years into the marriage, Jay is
seen kissing another woman named Judith, played by Efya. After continuous
arguments with Judith on the limited time he spends with her, Jay goes
home to meet his angry pregnant wife. She almost caught him in a lie as she
confronts him, but being a smart player, Jay cooks up an accident story and
gains the sympathy of his wife, while he struggles with his conscience.
Never introduce an unmarried girlfriend to your husband
Never walk around town without this DVD
MY VERDICT
I
t’s a nice story, very humorous. The massage scene, the toast scene between
Ray and his friends, the love making scene between Vida and her husband,
the scene where Ray chokes on his tea as Judith confesses she’s dating a married
man and the ‘arse analysis’ proffered by Ray to Andy. These scenes were very
funny and entertaining. Some plots in the script are unrealistic. I can’t believe
Paula, Vida and Kimora can be very good friends and not know each other’s
husbands, especially as the men are friends with the exception of Ranesh.
Also how can Kimora not have known Vida’s husband? Didn’t she attend her
wedding? Also the part where Kimora recounts Ray’s proposal to her friends
in the boutique and they ooohhed and aahhhed was very unrealistic since they
were all present at her birthday where jay proposed to her. AND, whatever
happened to Kimora’s pregnancy? The only mention of it was when Ray told her
not to fret because of the baby, afterwards, nothing was heard of the pregnancy
and Kimora never dressed nor acted like a pregnant woman. The acting was
well done, with amazing raunchy scenes, but that is Ghana movies for you. The
quality of the pictures is very impressive and beautiful locations which show
the tourist value of Ghana were used in the movie. The story relates more to
everyday life, but its best to have parental guidance when watching the movie,
especially with kids around because strong erotic languages were used in it. It’s
a movie i can watch again and again and this doesn’t happen often for me. Good
job Yvonne Nelson.
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