For me, Nollywood scripts are nothing but Recycled ‘shit’. At least most of them are. Forgive the vulgarity, but that’s the way I feel about them. I remember those days when I used to spend My Sundat afternoons glued to my TV screen, watching Nollywood Top 10. Now, we can’t even dream of doing a Top 500! In an interview, Idris Elba said this about Nollywood movies.
“Whether Elba would actually venture into African films though, is another question. He says his parents have OBE, the West African TV channel, on all the time. But the offerings of “Nollywood” – Nigeria’s answer to Bollywood – are something Elba clearly only watches under duress.
“Different strokes for different folks,” he says, laughing. “My parents love those films, they relate to them. But for me… the mistakes in continuity, the music playing over the dialogue the whole time, and there is always a central character who is an African woman screaming! Always!”
This sums it all up. 9ja movies are nothing but producers attempting to flog a dead horse. They’ve been working with the same them for almost 2 decades now! Some of them are getting better, but we really need something different on our screens.
