Nollywood Is Dying Slowly
It is so
unfortunate for Nigerians that why we were hoping for a brighter tomorrow, why
we were hoping that our movie industry will be growing from grass to grace, it
has rather grown from grass to shrubs.
The Nigerian
Movie Industry was once a promising Industry, long time ago Nigerians where
enjoying the entertainment from the Industry that stood as the paramount movie
industry in the whole of Africa. The Nigerian Movie Industry was once the pace
setters when it came to acting and quality and educating movies.
Nigeria once
boasted a variety of talents in the Industry, from those in front of the camera
to those behind it. Nigeria had talented actors and actresses, directors,
producers, editors etc. These factions of talents lifted the industry to great heights
and when Nigerians sit in front of their televisions then, they enjoyed every
minute spent in front of it.
The likes of
Desmond Elliot, Ramsey Noah, Jim Iyke, Pete Edochie, Amaechi Muonagor, Saint
Obi, Zack Orji, Gentle Jack, Tony Umez, Sam Loco, Nkem Owoh, Emeka Ike, Olu
Jacobs and many more. This crop of actors really lifted the industry
with their great acting prowess and the industry has up until now, not realized
up to half of those talents. Same goes with the actresses, when the Nollywood
still had Genevieve Nnaji, Omotala, Patience Ozokwor, Oge Okoye, Chioma
Chukwuka, Chika Ike among so many others.
The Industry’s
productions were educating, entertaining, suspense-filled and thrilling when
these actors and actresses stood in front of the camera to manifest their
talents.
What has
happened to the Industry now, we no longer witness the kinds of movies we once
went crazy about, movies like The Cats,
Missing Rib, State of Emergency, Girls Cot, Boys Cot etc.
These movies are far
different from what we are seeing in this present day. What we get from the
industry now is meaningless, senseless, absurd and useless movies. The worst part
of the story is, when you finally decide to purchase the movie, you have to
endure 18-20 minutes of movie adverts, before watching the movie you paid to
watch, which will end up not lasting up to 40 minutes.
The Nigerian
Movie Industry really needs to wake up from their slumber and face reality. The
actors and actresses we were seeing as our future stars are falling short of
expectations and it is so disappointing.
Ladies who
wants to act only has to sell their body to producers in order to get a role,
be them good or not.
Many
Nigerians will rather prefer to patronize American, Korean, Japanese, Chinese,
Indian and even Ghanaian movies to Nigerian.
Nollywood needs to Wake Up!
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