Ite Oku is a straightforward story, however constructed into a really advanced and sophisticated plot and catapulted over the roof by the ingenious interpretation of the characters by the star-studded forged assembled by producers Zentury Footage and Sir Folly Movie Worldwide.
It’s the story of a really formidable taxi driver who could be very dissatisfied together with his state of life and rushes to discover a get-rich-quick ladder to climb to wealth, prosperity and the related reckoning in society.
He finds a really wealthy lady and begs for cash and fortune. Then the attractive woman with excessive wealth leads him to the mysterious abode of the useless the place cash rituals are carried out and the wanted huge wealth assumes astonishing proportions.
What the grasping parvenu doesn't know is that the attractive woman belongs within the realm of the useless and she or he solely takes on the our bodies of the residing for the only function of distributing largesse to the needy, as agreed upon by her husband within the grave! However with conditionality: whoever turns into wealthy by her cash rituals is sure by an irrevocable oath of chastity and infertility throughout his or her life. His or her partner who resides within the grave is married off to her or him originally of cash rituals. Demise, non-negotiable is the punishment for defaulters!
Quick ahead: Taxi driver Aderoju, performed by veteran OdunladeAdekola, is wooed by a bevy of girls from throughout the neighborhood. These gold digger dazzlers embrace Morenikeji, performed by YemisiOke [who out of desperation enlists the supernatural powers of her mystical father]Layo performed by Wunmi Toriola, Folake performed by AyisatRaji and Ajibike performed by EmiolaIyiola amongst others.
Filled with suspense, viewers wouldn’t understand how Yemisi, performed by the vigorous legendary Bukky Wright, emerges because the wealthy woman from the abode of the useless, 'Ite Oku', or how Feyisara, performed by TemitopeAdeniyi Yemisi grew to become because the useless residing within the physique of Yemisi performed by Bukky Wright. The difficult riddle turns into clearer when apprentice mechanic Femi, performed by multi-talented Murphy Afolabi, is proven as Feyisara's earthly fiancée [TemitopeAdeniyi] who misplaced her life because of the pressured abortion of the being pregnant she had for Femi by her upper-class dad and mom, who strongly disapproved of her relationship with scholar Femi. Her premature demise prompted Femi's unnatural demise [Afolabi] and each then discovered themselves residing fortunately collectively within the land of the Useless.
Femi had made a fortune by money-making rituals to counter his rejection by Feyisara's dad and mom. It’s this huge wealth that he orders his late fiancée Feyisara, within the physique of Yemisi, to go to the land of the residing and distribute to the needy, the place and the way Aderoju falls into the entice.
It’s this entanglement that offers the plot its complexity and eerie strangeness and provides the veteran actors the chance to display their dexterity and celebrity standing in performing.
Lengthy struggling widow Mama Aderoju, fantastically performed by one other legendary actor TolaOladokun, comes nose to nose with the heartbreaking realization that her son, the one son, is a millionaire together with cash making rituals within the haven of the useless. From that second on motherhood; emotional, anguished, crying, wailing and ecstatic, units the temper of the movie and earns TolaOladokun the medal of the champion of the day. She is a delight.
However she's not alone. Bukky Wright, Murphy Afolabi and YemisiOke is not going to let go with out leaving viewers with a dilemma as to who the 'Victor Ludorum' ought to go to.
Watching Bukky Wright with the benefit with which she acts and delivers her traces, you might be tempted to consider that they’re having a pure dialog with the neighbor or a member of the family in a household setting. She is so pure and naturalistic.
OdunladeAdekola is a person for all seasons and performing has turn out to be so pure that he’s truly the character he portrays.
Murphy Afolabi couldn’t have acted higher as a useless man within the grave, nor may TolaOladokun have been extra convincing as an agonizing mom within the grip of a grown son with the demise penalty on his head.
The costumes, lighting, audio and different acoustics contribute in no small half to the greatness of the movie Ite Oku, making it one of the crucial outstanding movies of current occasions.
It’s entertaining, academic and academic, whereas the pictures are thrilling, fascinating and seductive. Nothing was spared to make Ite Oku a eternally film.
It was an amazing reduction that the author of the story, ShondeAfolabi, didn’t insult the African religious essence like a number of story writers in Nollywood, who usually portrayed the Bible or the Quran as superior, extra highly effective, simpler or extra edifying than our [Africa’s] personal cherished and revered traditions, cultures, beliefs and mores. Each faith is a product of individuals's tradition and custom.
TolaOladokun, OdunladeAdekola, Bukky Wright and Murphy Afolabi, you make performing a pleasure!
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