By Fakomi Olajumoke
Who said the NOLLYWOOD industry couldn’t pull off a musical series? Who did?
I am here to humor you that one just got into the game and I think it’s here to stay and birth newer ones of this sort.
The Dreamers is a musical series produced by a 23 year old filmmaker, Michael Chineme Ike. It is unique in the sense that this Nigeria’s first musical tv series featured legendary actresses such as: Ngozi Ezeonu, Blessing Nwankwo. Others are American Actors Billy Barry and Briuanna Fuller. The film which was set in Nigeria and the United States of America had its first private screening in Cinema Dubai, UAE, and the Nigerian Premiere in Awka, Abuja and Lagos.
The series THE DREAMERS tells the tale of some talented Nigerian college students struggling with various obstacles in their strive for success. Some scenes were shot in Nigeria while some in the USA.
The movie talks about overcoming challenges, reason to be successful, chasing your dreams regardless of what’s in front of you and also takes into consideration the rich culture of telling African stories to the world.
The scenery, plot and storyline was awesome, great directing and build up from the team but you could notice lapses in some parts of the movie acting. It was obvious in some scenes that the acting wasn’t as great as most people anticipated. Some scenes didn’t display contemporary African musical culture. Some had places where ‘movie fillers’ were endemic. The storyline was awesome and the movie followed suit down to the latter though. From the assembly ground where it was announced talents would be picked to when they got picked and went on set. Brilliant and great work. Although the introduction of western culture (rap) into a scene made the movie drift a bit, the story was able to corroborate that with some other parts of the movie. Another pass mark to the movie.
In addition, the build up of emotions, thrills and Ngozi Ezeonu acting is something viewers would highly enjoy as she flawlessly played her role to perfection. Micheal Adeoya, a movie enthusiast said, “I believe this will be an avenue for people from different parts of the world to see the talents and beauties of Nigeria my movies always portray. ”
Summarily, we would rate the movie 4 stars because we still haven’t seen the most of what we’d expect from a musical series coming from Nigeria and we expect newer ones that follow will take the talking points into consideration.
