NO TO RELIGIOUS ROLE

Dear Nollywood,
In this era of open letters, writing you one is long overdue. This letter will skip the normal routine of pleasantries and go straight to its objectives.

No point reminding you that you are an edifice housing all and sundry that eke out a living in you. You tend to be a beautiful house built on moral, ethnic and cultural structure. But sad to say your inhabitants are defacing you. Your products as well as your inhabitants have a greater effect on the general populace. A part of which idolise, crave for and make your inhabitants role model hence living or want to live the kind of life they live. On this note, uprightness, good moral behaviour, an exemplary way of life is expected of them at all time.

Not going farther, this missive will not entirely be about you(nollywood) but about misinterpretation being carried out by your people. It is important to talk about two things, your Inhabitants and your Products before going into the misinterpretation . By Inhabitants this epistle is referring to the actors, actresses, producers, directors, marketers, make-up artists, the waka-pass, etc. And by products it's referring to the cumulative efforts, task, assignment day and night, rain and sunshine undergo by the aforementioned set of people in sending a message to the general populace.

The Inhabitants now and the Products later. Using your yoruba speaking Inhabitants as a case study, few of them stand tall. Most of them(no apology) are full of scandals, one dirt or the other. They've all got their hand soiled. In one's religious book, it is clearly stated that you can change a bad deed or idea in three ways, you can change it using your hand, if you can't you use your mouth, if you can't you use your heart by praying against it. Though few of them would want to stand tall but they have shut their mouth, handcuffed their hand, can't say if they have closed their heart too to the abnormally turned normally under your nose.

In your house, illegal sexual intercourse is a very normal thing to do. And your guys have redefined and refine it, and they tagged it "rosco". They modified it, making it seems harmless like taking a cup of water. For an upcoming actress, she has to be anointed sexually before she could appear in one or two scenes. Securing a role is not on merit or hard work but how sexy you are and can go down with the producer cum director. For an actress who painfully having wrote a script, source for resources to produce it must again pass through the long pipe of a marketer before her movie could hit the market. In the quest of living up to the 'celeb' lifestyle they (female) can go to bed with every dick and harry who has little cash to spare for them. Name the spot, the location and they will gladly name the price, before you say Jack Robinson they are there. With them morality is long lost. The question for you Nollywood is are these daughters of yours qualify to be role model? In one religion they are only qualified for stones and whips. If this is what is going on with their private life little wonder we have low quality, shabbily produced and poorly written movie. The men among them see nothing wrong with drugs, Indian hemp, drinking, deceiving young girls promising them a scene just to get down with the innocent girls. If these are crop of ladies and gentlemen in Nollywood, then the help of soothsayer is not needed to tell what the Product will be. Definitely they will and can only write picking from what is going on around them. Few of them could think and reason outside the box. They have become lazy, they can not do any research work, they are neither creative nor innovative. What then can these bunch of lazy people produce?! Theatre art is not meant for lazy people, script writing is meant for visionary people, directing and producing are work of genius but when you have the otherwise people doing it, then the product is nothing to write home about.

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