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This Easter will not be all
about fluffy chickens on rice, it will involve movie. Tunde Kelani’s MAAMi in
the spirit of the season will resurrect the love for
mothers as the long
awaited movie is released for home viewing on DVD.
Maami starring Funke Akindele
depicts the life of a helpless mother and her young son who are desperately
poor. Gifted with a living heart, enterprising spirit and brave soul, she is
the centre of her son’s world, until he longs for the father he has never known
– a man with a terrible secret.Set over a two-day period, leading to the 2010
World Cup, Maami is an inspiring story of a poor, conscientious single parent’s
struggles to raise her only child, Kashimawo, who, eventually, rises to
international stardom in an English football club, Arsenal and becomes a
national hero in the wake of Nigeria’s preparation for the World Cup.
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| maami movie poster |
Adapted by Tunde Babalola,
from Femi Osofisan’s novel of the same title, the film is about love,
perseverance and fate as it unfolds through Kashimawo’s reminiscences of his
hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Maami shown in cinema in
2012, has enjoyed positive reviews and won many awards home and abroad for its
quality, theme and plot.
Speaking on what she learned
from her character, MAAMi, Funke Akindele said, ”I think MAAMi is a great
movie. I must say that I was really tasked, drilled and grilled to play the
role by TK. I did my job as an actor, taking a part of me into believing that
those things were really happening to me. I feel if it could be so real for me
to interprete, it should be more real for my audience. It is great as well as
humbling to see how much, how far a mother could go to save the life of her
child, even in the face of death.”
MAAMi features alongside
Funke Akindele, Wole Ojo, Tamilore Kuboye and Tolani Abatti with cameo
appearances by Olumide Bakare, Fatai Rolling Dollar, Yinka Davies, Kayode
Balogun and Biodun Kupoluyi.
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