Osita Iheme a.k.a Pawpaw and Chinedu Ikedieze a.k.a Aki has revealed how they came into limelight with the help of Late Chukwuka Emelionwu, popularly known as Kasvid who created their screen name 'Aki and Pawpaw'.



Kasvid died last month in a fatal accident, while on his way to his village in Anambra State.



He was reputed to have produced popular movies such as “Mr. Ibu in London”, The last Burial”, August Meeting”, Isakaba”, ‘Aki na Ukwa among other movies.

The same person created such movie characters as Mr. Ibu, Aki and Pawpaw.



The actors during a candlelight/tribute night which was organized by Nollywood stakeholders on Tuesday, paid their heartbreaking tribute to him,.



According to Osita Iheme a.k.a Pawpaw, Kasvid was his boss before he later became his friend.

“Kasvid was my boss who later became my friend. I met him in 2002, in Eungu.

Then I was based in Aba, where I was horning my acting skills. I decided to relocate to Enugu to hustle. While in Enugu, Kasvid was shooting a film. When he sighted me, he developed interest in me.

He just believed in me immediately he sighted me.” Fighting back tears, Pawpaw recalled how the late film maker created the ‘Aki and Pawpaw’ brand. Narrating further, he said “Kavid asked me if I would like to go into acting.

I told him, I have been into acting way back in Aba. He then asked me again, do you know Chinedu Ikedieze who featured in the “Last Burial.” I answered him in the affirmative.

Then I didn’t know he was the producer of the Last Burial. Later, he invited a writer to write a script around Chinedu and I. That was how the movie, “Aki na Ukwa” came about.

On his own, Aki said, he met the late film maker while he was an undergraduate at Institute of Management Technology, IMT, in Enugu.

“I went for an audition, and he saw one-smart looking small boy and he immediately developed interest in me.

A week after that encounter, he visited me in my hostel on campus. Kasvid took a risk in us. He invested his money in us. He saw something in us that other producers did not see.

He made us who we are today,” Aki echoed.


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Ok

God bless him!

Good to know.
Btw, The death of this guy (Kasvid) is still very strange to me
Someone who has escaped death from his vehicle unscratched and trying to make calls only to be
killed by an on-coming vehicle at the same spot.
It shall never be well with the devil!
Continue to rest in peace Late Chukwuka Emelionwu

That's nice

such is life

RIP kasvid...



This is what life should be about, impacting and touching other peoples life in a positive way, and you'll have your name live on long after you've kicked the bucket.. Rather than live a broke and a bad life, and later looking for a male child to make your name live on..!

I miss those glorious days of naija movies not the rubbish we have now

I thought they said they were discovered by Usofia.

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Ok

I miss the movies of those days.... RIP director

Kasvid really made them

Chai , its a pity , may his soul rest in peace.

I need big money, I need to do money ritual...can anybody help

Like seriously FTC


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Glo network

hmm

RIP to the dead

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Yawns... Hope theyve caught that snake. ?

Hope he was well appreciated by u guys when he was alive not all these after death tributes that floods in once the person is dead.

Good to remember the finger that fed you.. it is a sign that you guys are good. RIP TO THE DEAD

Abeg who was the script writer ?

AKI NA UKWA

best nollywood comic movie till today

TheSoothedSoul:
I need big money, I need to do money ritual...can anybody help

use one of ur breast

Locate ur destiny helper s

Last burial, Akin na ukwa, isakaba was the real deal.
Such a talented man, RIP.

TheSoothedSoul:
I need big money, I need to do money ritual...can anybody help

so you're also part of the few people who believe in these fetish things...



Work harder and pray for God's blessings upon your hustle..

What's glorious about those days? Ode

stephenmorris:
I miss those glorious days of naija movies not the rubbish we have now

Forget not thy root. May he rest in peace