My Biggest Complain About Nigerian Films - Basketmouth

Nigerian comedian and filmmaker, Basketmouth has a new movie in cinemas and it is called A Ghetto Love Story. It is Basketmouth's entry into cinema and the movie according to him came to him after years and years of complaining whenever he watched Nigerian movies. During a new interview with Channels Television, Basketmouth opened up about why he made the decision to make this movie, and explained what exactly about Nigerian movies made him complain so much. Here's what Basketmouth had to say.

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Speaking about why he decided to make his new movie, A Ghetto Love Story, and explaining why he always complains when he watches Nigerian movies, Basketmouth said:

BASKETMOUTH: I have been and I am a movie head. I've been watching movies like all my life and I found myself complaining all the time, all the time about the movies I was seeing. Nigerian movies. And it was because I didn't believe what I was seeing, most of them. It looked like it wasn't believable, the world wasn't believable. So I told myself, I said Bright, you need to create like y'know, create a movie, make a movie and tell that story the way you want it to be told. Create that world the way you want it to be seen.

So when the story came, it was like the perfect story because that direction people don't really go there. I like the fact that it was you know, it was like the first time any movie producer will be going that direction. So that one was one, and then one of the reasons I wanted to tell this story was because I knew I could create the world that the story can fit in and make it real. And the story was authentic and because of the world we created that is authentic, because the world, it wasn't a set. It wasn't—I'm going to tell you guys how we created that thing later on, but yeah, apart from the story it was mainly because I wanted to show y'know, that authenticity in our art.

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