NOLLYWOOD'S NEW OBSESSION WITH CRIME DRAMAS

Following the commercial and critical success of Kemi Adetiba’s crime drama?King of boys?in 2018, Nollywood began to see the opportunities presented by crime films. And they milked it: In 2022 alone, many mainstream Nollywood films and series were crime-based —?Blood Sisters,?Brotherhood, The Set Up 2, Crime And Justice Lagos, Diiche?andFar From Homeamongst others. This year,?Shanty Town?premiered in January and reminded the Nigerian audience that she loves crime more than she loves to admit; and perhaps this owes to the fact that crime is woven in every fibre of the Nigerian experience. While the perpetrators of the crime might be government officials (King of Boys) or underworld kingpins (Shanty Town), Nollywood also shines the torch on how normal people like a bride and her best friend (Blood sisters), a mother (Wura) and a desperate student (Far From Home) can also find themselves caught in the web of crime.

The Nigerian audience is ready for any type of genre, as long as it is properly executed and entertaining enough. A problem some of our films have is the failure to tailor the stories to the reality of the average Nigerian. In trying to be entertaining, many of these crime films mostly imitate western films, without care for attention to details.

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