TUNDE KELANI'S 'MAAMI' HITS CINEMAS IN FEBRUARY

Veteran film maker, Tunde Kelani is set to release his latest movie ‘Maami‘ for viewing as it debuts at the cinemas on Friday, February 3, 2012.

The cinematographer’s latest project was premiered November 2011 at the first Nollywood festival in Brazil.

‘Maami‘, an adaptation of foremost Nigerian playwright, Femi Osofisan‘s novel of the same title tells an inspiring story of a poor single mother who struggles to take care of her only child. Her son becomes an international footballer with English club Arsenal, turning a national hero. But, the ‘boy’ in the ‘man’ yearns for a father he’s never known- a man with a dark secret.

‘Plans have been concluded to include original sound track from ASA, Nico Mbarga and 9ice‘,  said Kelani via his YouTube account.

A total of fifteen movies have come out from the stables of Mainframe Film and Television Productions headed by the award-winning director.

Some of their notable works are ‘Ti Oluwa ni le (1,2,3)‘ (1993), ’Saworoide‘ (1999), Thunderbolt (2001), The Campus Queen (2004) and recently Arugba (2008).

TUNDE KELANI'S NEW FILM "MAAMI"

Single parent, MAAMi, and her young son 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 intrnational stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero.

Adapted by Tunde Babalola, from Femi Osofisan’s novel of the same name, this film about love, perseverance and fate unfolds through Kashimawo’s reminiscences of his hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta