Royal Arts Academy Production Presents, Genevive Nnaji (Zara Williams), Majid Michel (Tyron), Desmond Elliot Bernard), Nse Ikpe Etim (Tena), Omoni Oboli (Ini); Story, Emem Isong; Screenplay, Uduak Isong Oguamanam/ Bola Aduwo; Director of Photography, Alex Effiong; Producer, Emem Isong; Directors, Daniel Ademinokan, Desmond Elliot.
I’ve never been so humiliated in my life…I’m tired Zaira, I’m tired of fighting, I’m tired of trying to live to everyone’s expectation, I’m a disappointment to everyone including myself…I have a career going down the drain, and here I am running errands for people, and I’m in love with a girl I can’t have-Tyron
Bursting out is an excellent story that needs telling. One of the movies you can watch from part one to part two without feeling loses of time. I must have missed it if there’s any part three out there, but to be honest, the screen chemistry between Majid and Genevive in this film is notable.
Zara Williams (Genevive Nnaji) have a chance Valentine party date with Tyron (Majid Michel), and their lives never remain the same. It is a chemistry with the formula made in heaven. Well, not quite like heaven, because like ours here on earth, it has its hurdles with tear-jerking moments. Tyron is celebrity soccer player whose fame is put on hold for a scandal, not his doing. Or not quite made explicit in the story, and to make ends meet, has to run errands on the Okada around town.
Zara Williams is not a small potato in the business world and can call a board meeting and cancels at her wishes, but she cannot quite get the natural feel for all the suitors with whom her friends set her up. With all the money in the world, she starves for love. Pure love. Not Bernard (Desmond Elliot) type of love, laden with insolence, disrespect, and disregard for womanhood.
When Zara and Tyron’s path cross, as a philosopher once said, they fall in love at first sight. But it has to take pure love to stage-manage the relationship. Zara has friends, uppity ones too who think dating Tyron is a mismatch for her. Tyron too has an old dead-beat flame who won’t let Tyron go, and doesn’t mind causing trouble or heartache for him.
There’s a climax in this story when Zare runs into Tyron running errands on the motorbike and Tyron is confronted about it. This incident is the scene where Genevive’s acting prowess shows. Acting cannot only be in the dialogue, but it also comes through individual nuances, body movements, facial muscles, the hiccups in your utterances, in the voice and when you deliver, the audience can sense pain in your voice. With Genevive in form, you can see and hear in her delivery actual acting, as in real life.
Then comes the moment for Tyron too when Zara’s girlfriend meet him and Zara at the restaurant, and the friend calls him ‘it.’ That is when Tyron takes a reality check to the relationship. But he delivers a line or two that, only those who have been there, up there and by misfortune, have fallen off the bridge, can rightly understand the predicament of Tyron’s character. ” I’ve never been so humiliated in my life…I’m tired Zara, I’m tired of fighting, I’m tired of trying to live to everyone’s expectations, I’m a disappointment to everyone including myself…I have a career going down the drain, and here I am running errands for people, and I’m in love with a girl I can’t even have.”
In an interview with Woody Allen, they ask if people think he was a loser because he plays loser parts in his films. He said he is a loser in movies, but in real life, he’s a winner. Majid has played so much looser parts in movies: Guilty Pleasures (2009), 4Play Reloaded(2010), Scandal(2010) and so on where Majid plays characters not quite noble in the real world. It is only a film though. This Emancipation Day Award winner who had got seven nominations for the lead role in “Agony of Christ( 2008) and won Best Actor, African Movie Award in 2012, is gradually etching his name on both the pavements of Nollywood and Gallywood Boulevards. Like Woody Allen, Majid is a loser on screen but a winner in real life.