Tosin Igho’s movie ‘The Eve’ is easily the most colourful and beautifully shot Nollywood film so far in 2018. It is not just the picture that is amazing and full of life, the choice of cast involves beautiful actors who are pleasing to the eye.
Mawuli Gavor, Beverly Naya, Hauwa Allahura, Meg Otanwa, Efa Iwara, Kunle Remi and the lead Adedu Adefarasin are all actors who are fan favourites. John Okafor (Mr Ibu) brings his humour into this one. His combination with Ronke Oshodi is one to watch out for.
At a time when the yearnings of the typical Nollywood audience has drifted towards the romantic comedy genre, the Eve delivers much more than just romance and comedy. It adds a couple beautiful twists in the mix. Tunde Babalola, Tosin Igho and Martin Adieze combine to try to cook an uncommon dish with this.
Talking about Igho, he is a name that might not be very familiar in the minds of the typical film audience in Nigeria but regular entertainment fans will know him as one who has been playing in the music video waters for several years. He has directed videos for D’banj, Terry G, Faze Yungl, Aramide and Sammy Okposo. A wealth of experience that is no doubt evident in the kind of pictorial stories this film tells.
Despite not being the quickest name to come to mind in film making, Igho does well for his rising reputation in the industry with ‘The Eve.’ Nigerian films haven’t been great with sound production in the past few years, but this film does very well on that front.
Music on The Eve is great and the film can easily pass for a musical, you will be forgiven for asking for the acapella renditions to appear more frequently than it did. That is how good the renditions and the production are.
Beverly Naya interprets her role of the forward saucy talkative girl friend who is about to marry the good guy. Her role is one of the numerous comic points in the film. There is also the Reverend father played by Femi Durojaiye. Iwara also brings his comedy A game to the fore here and he even almost takes the shine off the other actors whenever they appeared together in a scene.
Mawuli Gavor’s performance as the Mcmiorate man is also quite commendable and the Adefarasin and Otanwa, despite it having the capacity to have been better is also worthy of gaining positive recognition.
It is not a perfect film though and the twist in the plot does not drop until some of the film has strolled by. A few more days in the writer’s room would have made the story even sharper than it turns out to be, but this does not make the film any poor. Expect this film to dominate the cinemas for the next few months.
This talk of the town movie which premiered in the cinemas on Saturday 30th March 2018 at Ember Creek, Lagos is already causing guans at cinema houses: The Eve is a romantic movie produced by cut 24 productions, a new movie production outfit that is fast making a name for itself with credits including some fantastic movies including movies like ‘Gidi Blues’ and ‘4th Estate’.