THE CRITIC

Director: Falalu A. Dorayi Producer: Tahir I. Tahir Company: Prince Zango Production Cast: Falalu A Dorayi, Halima Atete, Adam A. Zango, Hajara Haidar, Sulaiman Bosho. Release date: 10th October, 2019 The occurrence of Marital jealousy is natural in polygamous homes for obvious reasons. Feuds and fights always arise between the co-wives. As a result, most women are frightened into taking protective measures to retain their monogamous homes. In their effort to achieve that, some excessively jealous women go to the extent of interfering in the personal affairs of their husbands to eliminate any perceived threat of having a co-wife. This brings a change in the dimension of the marital jealousy to aggression and violent attacks on husbands by their wives even prior to the remarriage. On 18th November, 2017, Maryam Sanda was remanded in custody for killing her huband, Bilyaminu Bello. While she was on trial, which lasted until January 2020, a similar incident occurred again...

People are often sceptical about ideas that go beyond their reasoning. Yet, we the faithful believe in miracles, simply because they are caused by the omnipotent God. However, being that miracles are incompatible with the ordinary laws of nature, they are philosophically questioned by, needless to say, atheists and those with cracks in their faiths. This argument is addressed in the film entitled Karamin sani (Little knowledge) The film is an adaptation of a true life story of a man who supposedly lived in two distinct worlds concurrently. This is reported in many Islamic books to proclaim the reality of 'miracles'. The film begins from a far away village called Saye, where a woman gave birth to a two headed baby. The villagers were bemused by the strange birth. One imam malam liman (Hussaini Sule koki) in his comments about the issue narrated more astounding situations God could create but his companion, malam Ladan (Adam A. Zango) found the narrations implausible...

The eponymous movie Hauwa Kulu is a masterpiece, one of the best films to come out of the Hausa film industry, aka Kannywood. It is a tragic, melodramatic social drama that addresses the issue of rape, which is a boiling issue in our society today. It is also a film that has attracted critical attention, especially from ‘feminists’, NGOs, other critics for its dramatic exposé of the complex politics involved in rape cases and its possible impact on the Nigerian cinema. The extraordinary plot, which is the driving force of this movie, narrates the story of a beautiful village girl, Hauwa Kulu (Hassana Muhammad), whose blind father (Abba El-Mustapha) wanted her to be well educated. He later decided to marry her off to avoid the plan of the lecherous Village Head, Maigari (Bashir Nayaya) who has a lustful feeling for her. Before the marriage, the unrelenting Maigari raped her, an event that brought tragedy into her life. After the rape, she got Vesicovaginal fistula (involuntary ur...

The first full length film ever produced in India was the biographical drama film "Raja Harishchandra (1913)". It was produced and directed by the pioneer, "Dadasaheb phalke" who, after watching "the life of Christ (1906)", felt that, indian images should be seen on the screen. The film was based on the legend of Harishchandra and its success is what paved the way for the biographical drama films in India among other things. Epic, adventure, biographical and period drama films are popular with indian cinema fans, and many of the highest-grossing indian films of all time have been of such genres. For instance; Mugal-e-Azam a 1960 bollywood epic historical drama was the highest-grossing indian film of all time, and it retained the record for fifteen years--- untill sholay (1975). The Tollywood epic action film "Baahubali 2: the conclusion (2017)" also broke and set many film records. It was the first ever indian film to gross over ₹10 bill...