03/04/2024
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Movie Review: āAjakaju: Beast of Two Worldsā disgraced Africa by using goats as antelopes
If not for being a movie reviewer, I wouldnāt have bothered going to the cinema to see āAjakaju: Beast of Two Worldsā. This is due to the publicity stunt pulled by the producers to draw attention to the movie
To bring you up to speed, the producers awarded crossdresser Bobrisky as the best-dressed woman at the movieās premiere. This generated backlash as many Nigerians condemned them for doing such in a country with laws against LGBT.
As the backlash grew stronger, talks about the movie grew bigger. Thatās possibly the motive of the producers now publishing fake epistles as an apology to Nigerians while probably smiling to the bank.
Many must have asked ā Why involve controversy to promote your movie? After seeing the movie, I realized why ā It is not worth oneās time. The movieās story sounds like something culled from childrenās books, more like stories from Tales By Moonlight that aired in the 80s on NTA 2 Channel 5. It is simply for simple-minded people.
āAjakaju: Beast of Two Worldsā is about King Towobola (Odunlade Adekola) who was surrounded by diabolic women, from his wives to his mother (Sola Sobowale). Faced with the threat of abdicating the throne for not having a male heir, he brought home a strange woman who spelt more trouble for him.
Who was the woman King Towobola brought home? Adaralewa, played by Eniola Ajao, the producer of the movie. Adaralewa was an antelope in the animal kingdom and a woman in manās world seeking to avenge her murdered parents.
Firstly, Iād like to talk about the costume department. They disappointed me right from the first scene that showed King Towobola with a beard. The king looked like someone plastered with hair picked from the floor of a barbershop. I wondered why they made him have a beard in that scene when the other scenes had him without such.
Another thing I found awkward was one of the priests (Mu