By Hilda Oghuma
The film, which premiered at the Expo centre of the Eko Hotels and Suites on Saturday, March 17, 2012 in Victoria Island, Lagos is Afolayan’s third solo effect, following Irapada and The Figurine. And the actor-director says he’s happy that project is done and ready; as he gets set to roll up his sleeves again and start work on a new one.
Huge stars turned out in colourful attires to see Phone Swap premiere, and as Afolayan, who’s the son of late theatre great Ade Love thanked everyone, he announced ‘The movie took 8 months to be ready’.
The movie which is rich in comedy, humour and in languages had four languages to its uniqueness, which were English, Yoruba, Igbo and Ghanaian to its credit.
PS tells the story of Akin and Mary who meet for the first time at an airport where they accidentally bump into each other and mistakenly swap their identical Blackberry phones . This leads to a destination mix up after they receive one another’s text regarding a travel destination.
Consequently, Akin ends up traveling to where Mary is supposed to go and vice versa. Neither knows about the swap until they have reached their opposite destinations and “the phone” stops ringing (In Mary’s case) and “Won’t stop ringing” (In Akins’s case) .
As a result of the phone swap, they agree to help carry out each other’s missions, armed with the information and data on each other’s phone.
But it’s not as easy as they both think as new obstacles and complications rise at every turn as they both struggle to adapt to their alien environment and situation.
Mary has to walk in Akins shoes and represent him in a company meeting while Akin has to represent Mary in her the family meeting. This they do with hilarious results…
The movie which stars Nse Ikpe-Etim, Wale Ojo, Ada Ameh, Joke Silva Chika Okpala, Lydia Forson is also to be premiered in Ghana, UK and US.
Kunle Afolayan also has successful movies ‘Irapada’ and ‘Figurine’ to the his credit; the latter claimed 5 awards at the 2010 edition of AMAA.
'Phone Swap took 8 months' – Kunle Afolayan
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I will like to watch the premier of Afolayan’s if is coming to Ibadan.