MAAMi: A film by Tunde Kelani

Mainframe is a "next generation" video production company based in cork designed to meet the demand for corporate video services. Its areas of expertise span a wide variety of visual formats including television, DVD, Blu-Ray, online video, smart phone and live video. It prides itself on producing the highest quality video productions to budget and on time whilst maintaining thoroughly competitive pricing.

Mainframe provides video for corporate marketing and promotional material that is fast becoming the industry standard. Video marketing is an essential tool for any company wishing to remain current with market trends in today’s competitive environment.

Over the years, Mainframe Films has adopted a cinematic style through Yoruba world view, theatrical pageantry, social satire, epic theatre stylistics, byzantine plot turns, and disjunctive breaks.

A lot of Mainframe’s materials come from the Yoruba cultural heritage. Folk songs, folk tales folk wisdom, procession and various other materials of intellectual value are rightfully owned by geographical communities.

Some of Mainframe’s celebrated movies are ‘Toluwanile,’ ‘Saworoide,’ ‘Ole Ku,’ ‘Thunderbolt,’ and ‘Arugba.’

Here comes another one, MAAMi from ‘Tunde Kelani, an adaptation of a Femi Osofisan’s novel, was released to the Cinema in February 2012. Movie producers/directors are not totally shying away from adapting novels into screen.

“Maami” a movie that was directed by Tunde Kelani, features acts such as Funke Akindele, Wole Ojo, Tamilore Kuboye and Ayomide Abati.  Also Yinka Davies, Kayode Balogun, Olumide Bakare, Fatai Rolling Dollar & Biodun Kupoluyi did cameo appearances in the movie.

You will be excited to share the synopsis of the much talked about movie after seeing it at cinema. And if you have been following Kelani’s films, then you know it is okay to set your expectations very high for this one!

Maami’s Synopsis

Single parent, MAAMi, and her young son are desperately poor. Gifted with a living heart, enterprising spirit and brave soul, she is the centre of her son’s world, until he longs for the father he has never known – a man with a terrible secret.

Set over a two-day period, leading to the 2010 World Cup, MAAMi is an inspiring story of a poor, conscientious single parent’s struggles to raise her only child, Kashimawo, who eventually rises to international stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero.

Adapted by Tunde Babalola, from Femi Osofisan’s novel of the same name, this film is about love, perseverance and fate unfolds through Kashimawo’s reminiscences of his hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

March 15, 2012