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A Naija Christmas // Movie Review 🎥🎥@urchpuppi316d

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‎One look at the title of this movie and your first guess would most likely to be that it is all about a Christmas movie, but it is more than that . A Naija Christmas is a Nigerian movie released in the year 2021. It centres around a family; a single mom and her three sons. The first son—though the oldest but the unreasonable one—is an aspiring music producer, and also kind of a playboy. The second son who is kind of weird in a nerdy kind of way, and then the last born with not really much of a background info, only that he is unpredictable and completely unsuspicious. ‎ ‎It mostly circled around the love stories of this three brothers. The oldest brother, Ugo, who is a playboy but seeing himself fall madly in love with a church girl which is the last thing he would probably admit ever happening until he met Ajike. His initial purpose for establishing a relationship with her was for his own selfish gain and the only reason Ajike wanted anything to with him was because of his voluntary action to help out in the Christmas gala that was coming up for kids in the neighborhood. But his ulterior motive was unknown to Ajike. ‎ ‎Then there comes Obi. The one in love with a colleague of his who has no feelings for him at all but deceives him into thinking so all for the purpose of using him to achieve a promotion at their place of work because Obi is considered to be among the smartest in the firm. Obi is so in love with this colleague of his that he even fails to notice the one person that cares about him and always willing to stand by him. Though they were close friends but she wanted more than that between her and Obi. ‎ ‎And then there's Chike, the one with the most complicated love story. Apparently, Chike went for someone way older than him. And not only is she older than him, she is also a married woman. Yeah, a married woman. The lady just want their relationship to be based on friends with benefits but Chike it's not cool with that but desires more. Among the three brothers, it was unfortunate that his story was the only one that did not have a "...they lived together happily ever after". Well, I kinda saw it coming from the beginning because such relationship mostly people involved in such relationships hardly have a future together. ‎ ‎I loved the drama portrayed in the movie. Not to mention the comedy which landed perfectly well at the appropriate times. It's the kind of movie a family can come together and watch and would be guaranteed of having a good time. In the movie we see misunderstandings between the characters, sacrifices made out of love, people losing their way but later finding it back with other amazing features. ‎ ‎It had a typical Nigerian setting with a blend of Igbo and Yoruba culture. I was impressed with this movie and I find it what recommending to those who are yet to watch it. I give it a rating of 7.5 out of 10. ‎

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›A Naija Christmas - Cine TV Contest #124@ozd548d
Hello, beautiful people! Welcome to my blog. It's a pleasure to have you in this space. Once again, welcome 🤗

I remember bumping into this movie on Netflix the week it was released, and somewhere in my head I was like, When did Nollywood start producing Christmas movies?" I have watched a lot of interesting Hollywood Christmas movies, but prior to this time I don't think I had seen a Nollywood Christmas movie.

Sincerely, I was a bit skeptical about watching the movie, but another part of me was very curious to know about the movie and what the motivation behind it was.

I had to go watch the trailer first because I didn't want to waste my data on something that would get me angry at the end, and after plenty of contemplation, I decided to give it a try, and one of the reasons was because of the late Mrs. Rachel Oniga, who acted as mama; she actually died before the movie was released. May her soul continue to rest in peace.

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SUMMARY OF THE MOVIE A Naija Christmas is a 2021 drama-comedy Nollywood movie that is directed by Kunle Afolayan. The movie is about mama Agatha (Rachel Oniga) and her three sons.

Mama Agatha is not getting younger, and she's worried that none of her three sons are making any attempts to get married, and she's in need of a grandchild because some of the women in her meeting (ladies of undiluted destiny) are mocking her for not being a grandma yet at her age, so she made a proposal to her three sons that if any of them get married first before Christmas, she would give them the family house at Ikoyi as inheritance.

This is where the competition between the brothers started.

Ugo, who happened to be the first son, is a Casanova who has broken the hearts of numerous women. Before their mom's proposal, he taught as the first child he was to inherit the house, but seeing how serious their mom was, coupled with the fact that he is in debt, he is owning a notorious loan shark. He decided to do whatever it takes to get a wife so as to get the house, sell it off, and pay off his debt.

Obi, the second son, on the other hand, is a dedicated young man who is madly in love with his colleague, who doesn't love him but is using him while his best friend Kaneng is in love with him without his knowledge.

Chike, the third son, doesn't care about the inheritance but is in a secret relationship with someone they know nothing about.

MY OPINION/REVIEW

The movie is entertaining; I had a good laugh while watching it, mostly when Ugo was mocking and mimicking Obi when he was rejected by Vera.

The movie showss how moms in some African homes will not allow you to breath and keep reminding you that you are still single and how their mates are now grandparents. They can do anything or go to any length to make sure their children get married.

I also love the fact that there was love amongst the brothers despite fighting for the house; when Obi found out about Ugo's debt, he helped him pay it off.

The Christmas gala that was organized in Mushin depicts what the true essence of Christmas is. Christmas is all about putting smiles on the faces of people, sharing joy and love with one another.

The actors all did well and if am to rate them it would 4/5 because they did well and beat my expectations

THANK YOU FOR READING TO THE END 🤗

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›A Naija Christmas@lizzyblue21652d
A Nigerian Christmas film? Hmm, I don't think I've ever watched one so I was curious to know what this one was about. Directed by Kunle Afolayan! Everyone who knows me and my Nigerian movies opinion know that I love Kunle Afolayan movies. I've come to trust the way he directs and I was ready for this cinematic display.

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This film is new. A 2021 movie and sadly the last one with the late Veteran actress Rachel Oniga. I'll be honest and say I was unaware she'd died so I'm experiencing a sadness five months late.

A short breakdown; this is a story of a mother who wants her three boys to get married and give her grand children. There is an additional perk of owning the family house for the first son who gets married. The three sons are played by Efa Iwara(movie crush and can I add, a recurring star in many of the Kunle Afolayan films I've watched), Abayomi Alvin and Kunle Remi.

The boys are as diverse and have great chemistry with each other. They have individual lives that are very nicely explored so it doesn't feel like an uninteresting monolith of sons. This is what made me keep watching. Also, isn't it just nice to finally have a change and not have daughters struggle to get married for a reward, but instead have sons do that? You see why I'm a big fan of Kunle Afolayan? And this is terrible of me for forgetting to mention, but the writer here is Kemi Adesoye and she's phenomenal. She's written films like 'Fifty', 'the figurine', 'Phone Swap' and these are all films I've watched.

The movie also stars interesting faces like Lateef Adedimeji who plays so well as a loan shark, Ade Laoye who isn't a new face for me and indeed for anyone seriously watching Nollywood. Segilola Ogidan and Linda Osifo who were both new for me. It is actually Kunle's style to feature people who are not exactly actors in his works and this is why he is able to bring fresh faces for viewers.

There are many funny scenes as you can imagine such a premise to have. With a reward of a family home, it's easy to see how initial motivations would have sprung out of deception. Also, love is not a something you can easily predict and human emotions are not logical and this leads to certain unlucky situations like when Efa Iwara gets tagged a 'Mugu' or a fool after his online marriage proposal to Linda Osofo flops big time and when the other son, Abayomi Alvin falls in love with a married woman, played by Mercy Johnson who rejects him because of course, how could she possible leave her stable home to marry her a man much younger than her and who happens to be the son of the president in her women's group.

This of course brings me to questions. There are questionsss I have about the office relationship between Efa and his boss Linda Osifo because it was crazy to see. First, what exactly are the chances of marrying your boss who speaks to you condescendingly when she does not like your work? How they even got to date in the first place is a mystery to me and it really threw me off that the strangeness of this improper office relationship was not visible to anyone else. Also, I really found the relationship between Lateef Adedimeji and Ade Laoye hard to believe. Not just because they never shared a scene together even though they were meant to be dating, but because it just didn't make sense that someone as nice an empathetic as her character was made to be in this film would be dating a loan shark. I guess they just needed a way to link these characters together but this one really felt contrived.

I must say I really enjoyed new face Segilola Ogidan and Kunle Remi's relationship on screen. It was the most entertaining and the most fleshed out of the three. I loved the comedic mishaps, like when she invited him to what he thought was an 'all night party' which in fact turned out to be an all night prayer session :). That made me really laugh. You see Segilola was a born again sister who wanted to release a debut. She once recorded in Kunle's studio where she got her first sight of his womanizing ways. It was Kunle who owed the loan shark a lot of money which resulted in the entertaining scenes where he would appear in a unassuming but with a crazed smile to gradually take things from Kunle's studio and home as repayment for the loan.

I also thoroughly entered the big scene with the Christmas party arranged for the children and adults in the streets. These were children in what you'd consider to be the slums of Nigeria getting to experience some of the festivities others in better parts of Nigeria take for granted.

I wonder what the budget was for this film mostly because of that scene. Unfortunately, our Nigerian film news don't pay attention to such things when talking about movies, so we can only speculate.

I rate this an 8/10.

Cheers!

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