Mako Jerera
Award winning film director, Sydney Taivavashe in collaboration with Ngoni Chinovava aka Baba Rah, President of Productions at Nelned Pictures, continues to make waves in the entertainment industry with an upcoming movie entitled, “Poor Cousins”.
In an interview with TateguruTV, Baba Rah, who is the Production Manager of the movie, explained that what encouraged the team to work on the film was the need to address social and cultural decay pervading society today.
“Its really sad to see many young people living a lie just to please social media. Rising cases of girl child abuse, drug abuse, and infidelity among young couples is worrying. A lot of men are sleeping with under-age girls.
These are some of societal realities that we seek to address through film,” said Baba Rah.
The movie will be released August 14, 2021.
‘Poor Cousins’ is story of two cousins who manage establish a close friendship with a rich family. They fell in love with the fast and comfortable life of the rich and famous, while forgetting their difficult past realities.
Like the proverbial prodigal son, they soon discovered that they were not the rich ones as their sad background always served them painful reminders.
The movie is expected to continue to put Zimbabwean film industry on the map internationally.
The cast include the flamboyant businessman and philanthropist Prophet Passion Java who plays rich cousin.
Nelned Pictures, creators of the famous movies Gonarezhou and The Story of Mbuya Nehanda have more projects in the pipeline.
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