The most anticipated movie in the West African sub region, Heroes and Zeros is set to hit the Ghanaian cinema in the month of June.
The movie which features one of the best hands in the Ghanaian movie industry, Nadia Buari and a host of established acts in Nigeria, Bimbo Manuel, Olu Jacobs, Norbert Young, Akin Lewis, Funsho Adeolu and others was unveiled to esteemed journalists in Accra during the week at a press conference which held at the Silverbird Cinema with Nadia, and other people that matter in attendance.
It was indeed a good day to remember as the mulatto actress from Takoradie gave an insight as to why she took part in the movie and her attraction to the script given to her by ace filmmaker, Niji Akanni who directed the movie.
With an exclusive premiere due to hold Friday 8th June in Ghana, expectations are high as many industry people and indeed the cinema public in the Gold Coast are waiting patiently for the movie that has been tagged as the very best of the mulatto actress so far and one of the few with very high budget.
And talking about high budget, the production company behind the movie, Koga Studios did not spare any cost in producing this movie. Koga is an entertainment powerhouse in Nigeria, it boasts of state-of-the-art studios for live recordings, editing suites, audio recording studios, a spacious event hall and a lounge. Koga is also a production house with a record label.
The movie is due to hit the Nigerian cinema in the month of July.
Synopsis; Heroes and Zeros is the story of destructive pursuance of Tonia (Nadia Buari) by Amos Fele (Bimbo Manuel). Ten years ago, Amos Fele was a wealthy celebrity director in the Nigerian film industry. Now he lives in a ramshackle flat, doing occasional low-paying TV commercials for nameless products.
He’s a daily comic relief on the local soccer practice pitch: because though he’s already 45 years old, he nurses a new, insane dream of making it into the dollar-soaked world of international soccer! His joyless marriage to Tinuke (Tina Mba) , a junior bank worker, is crumbling fast, especially after the death of their only child.
A boost to his sagging spirit comes when a big-budget French-Nigerian film project appoints him as director. Suddenly, the press begins to (re)celebrate him. Top actors and producers begin to call him up. To his wife’s distress, Fele also quickly re-establishes his wane reputation as a first-class womanizer.
Fele’s new rise coincides with that of Dibu Ijele (Gabriel Afolayan) as Yellow Journalism’s new enfant terrible. Dibu is a reporter with Naija Scene, a weekly tabloid. The paper’s new board of directors (led by Olu Jacobs), with its eyes on profit, supports Dibu’s theory that the only way to beat the competition is to scoop and sell dirt about anyone with a famous face or name. Dibu’s editor, Mr. Ayodele Alisa (Akin Lewis), an urbane fellow, tries to fight him and the board.
Fele becomes obsessed with Tonia, a ravishing beauty and lead actress of the Nigerian-French film project. Ignoring the warnings of his best friend, Nnamdi (Norbert Young), a psychology professor, Fele pursues his obsession with Tonia to its tragic conclusion: losing his new job, ending his marriage and ending up in a mental hospital. Unknown to him, Tonia and her sister, Bisola have something up their sleeves.
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