Tunde Kelani's film 'Maami' alongside other previous works of his will be available ob DVD this Easter! For those who couldn't make it to the cinemas, here is your chance to watch Funke Akindele play a single parent in MAAMi, she 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.
Other acts in the movie include; Wole Ojo, Tamilore Kuboye and Tolani Abatti with cameo appearances by Olumide Bakare, late Fatai Rolling Dollar, Yinka Davies, Kayode Balogun and top journalist Biodun Kupoluyi.
Kelani’s Mainframe has also put on DVD release eight other works including Ti Oluwa Nile 1, 2and3,Koseegbe, Agogo Eewo, The Campus Queen, Saworoide, Thunderbolt (Magun), The Narrow Path, Oleku and Arugba. Maami will be marketed by Ajimson and it can also be ordered online
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