It`s no news in the world of showbiz to see musicians, journalists or sports men trying to go into acting, but the media will always have the opportunity to criticize them if they perform below the force their names and identities carry alongside their charisma .
Many are the top musicians who have tried their best to star in Ghanaian movies but most of them have not been able to win the hearts of many movie fans because they have not been able to do it to perfection. It was until recently that Samini proved that when given time and chance, he can excel in the movie industry: he was fantastic in “Pool Party”.
As to why these musicians in question are choosing movie career as their second job, none has been able to give any concrete answer regardless of how strong we ask them.
In our quest, Nigeriafilms.com moved to some production houses and spoke with production managers but it seems this year will witness more musicians in the Ghanaian movie industry as they are all so zealous to start doing movies. In this vein, they are doing all they can to satisfy directors and producers to gain grounds for their new found love.
Mzbel, who happens to be on the set of Venus films currently was captured by our lens together with Mimi at Adonai Hotel, (one of the popular hotels as far as movie making is concerned) and she told Nigeriafilms.com that she would not disclose her intentions of acting to the public now because she wants to keep it secret until her movies start coming out. May be Mzbel has forgotten that she cannot hide stuffs in the movie industry like they do in music as to when they want to release their albums.
The question on the mind of this writer is whether she will survive, because the last time she tried it from the camp of Socrate Safo, she did not shine like that. This writer analyzed how she fared in her previous movies she did under the titles,” East of life” and “Destiny child. In all these movies, she put up one of the poorest acting skills, may be because it was her first time. Some years down the lane, she went off but has bounced back with another force. Critics are waiting to observe what she will do in her latest movie titled “Single Six” from the camp of Venus films.
When the lenses of Nigeriafilms.com caught Mimi Andani of Big Brother fame, she was not able to confirm her readiness to shoot. But from indications, it might be she visited Mzbel or she came to lobby for a role which has not been confirmed yet. Meanwhile, rumors have it that, she was also seen on the Spintex Road doing stuffs with Socrate Sarfo`s Movie Africa. Another “Hot Fork” in the often? Flex newspaper is only asking.
Slim the Bagard dancer is also on set with some musicians shooting a movie he calls “Nothing”. He was so busy playing the lead role so he could not speak with the writer from Nigeriafilms.com . In a chat with his production manager who gave his name as Shangai, he told this paper Slim has more movies he wants to shoot but will still be doing music which happens to be his first love. “Even Aletse Tinny and Confidence of Aphrodisiac will be joining us to shoot as well” Shangai added.
What makes this new development funny is the fact that they even beg for these roles from production houses. But can they really survive their new found love? More to follow on this topic.
