Keya Ce premiers as first Hausa movie in a cinema
Nollywood stars like Lilian Bach, Zach Amata, Florence Onuma and Amina Attahiru attended the premier. Kannywood actors and actresses in the movie and those who attended include; Ladidi Tubeless, Hafsat Sharada, Aminu Sheriff, Fauziya Sani, Hauwa Maina, Ismaila Koli, Shehu Hassan Kano and Abba al Mustapha, among others. The film tells the story of Kubra […]
Nollywood stars like Lilian Bach, Zach Amata, Florence Onuma and Amina Attahiru attended the premier.
Kannywood actors and actresses in the movie and those who attended include; Ladidi Tubeless, Hafsat Sharada, Aminu Sheriff, Fauziya Sani, Hauwa Maina, Ismaila Koli, Shehu Hassan Kano and Abba al Mustapha, among others.
The film tells the story of Kubra who as a young school girl, witnessed the death of her mother in the hands of an abusive and drunken father, misfortune hit hard on her again when she was impregnated by her cousin whose parents took her in. Forced into a marriage because of her condition it was a case of history repeating itself as her husband abused and later divorced her with the connivance of his mother. That marked another journey of having to bring up her son, Amir, single handedly, and she went back to school with her only helper being her grandmother. As Amir marries and begins to have his own children, echoes of the past comes rushing in and it has to be revisited, bringing to the fore the cycle of misfortune befalling Kubra’s traducers.
Kaye Ce is not only a generational film portraying societal ills but also spells out the tragic consequences of all our actions, salient among which is the death of one of the characters in the movie who though not completely innocent himself, was a victim of actions remotely triggered by other persons.
The menace of hard drugs on the youths was brought to the fore in the movie added with the unenviable trauma of domestic violence on women and the plight of orphans. It is a movie that brought out topical issues not just peculiar to Hausa communities but nationwide.
Speaking at the premier, producer of the movie, Ms Hajara Yusuf, said the message of the film is a simple lesson that life is full of challenges especially for women and other vulnerable people in the society.
She said: “therefore, women should stay focused no matter the kind of challenges as there will be light at the end of the dark tunnel . Another lesson is the fact that whatever you sow in life, you are bound to reap it. We should also try to live within our cultural ethics. Marriage is a very important thing in life and everybody has his destiny but we mustn’t at any point in our life play with it. Family values are very important.”
She said the over two hours movie will run for sometime in the cinemas before going into the market for DVDs and serialization into parts.
The movie boasts of good pictures and sound quality. It’s only minus is the unnecessarily lengthy flash backs on some of the characters. That said, it holds the viewer interested and captivated from the beginning to the end.