'HALF OF A YELLOW SUN' MOVIE RELEASE SUFFERS FRESH SETBACK; 1.7 BILLION NAIRA INVESTMENT IN JEOPARDY

The continued delay in the release of the movie "Half Of A Yellow Sun" enters second week as Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) still withhold it's certification to kick start the screening in cinemas across Nigeria and as it is now there is no new date as to when it is going to be released. The film which is an adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie's novel "Half Of A Yellow Sun" was earlier scheduled to be screened in cinemas on friday April 25, 2014 there was a postponement because the producers couldn't get the required approval from the film board a development which dragged till the second week which was why nothing came up on the rescheduled date friday May 2, 2014 and the producers were left frustrated.

What to expect in the movie

Chimamanda Adichie, author of the novel "Half Of A Yellow Sun" which was adapted into a movie didn't envisage the deafening accolades it has received all around the world. Gulping all of $10 million HOAYS was shot in Nigeria and London. However those itching to watch the movie because of Nigerian super star actress Genevieve Nnaji should prepare their mind to meet a different thing in the movie, the actress only appeared twice as what has been termed "waka pass". She played the role of a Yoruba lady to add sarcasm in the movie. OC Ukeje too appeared once and that was when he was running out of town to avoid being caught by the advancing Nigerian troops coming to town. Zack Orji and Wale Ojo too appeared once and that was at the first scene. So the film poster which has Genevieve, OC Ukeje appearing as if they are the lead cast was deliberate. It was meant according to Yewande Sadiku, Executive producer of the film to capture the Nigerian audience and market.

The film revolves around the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war. Olanna (Newton)
and Kainene (Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover, the “revolutionary professor” Odenigbo (Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests, and surprises herself when she falls in love with Richard (Mawle) an English writer. Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements, and a betrayal between the sisters, the events of their life loom larger than politics. However, they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra an independent republic, ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire country and the world.