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Mirror Boy hits cinemas soon
Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:24
(DailySun) - First it was Ije and then Anchor Baby. Now Mirror Boy, another highly anticipated movie, will be in the cinemas anytime soon.
Featuring Genevieve Nnaji and Osita Iheme, it was produced by Obi Elumonu. The storyline is an enthralling journey through the picturesque terrains of Gambia, as seen through the eyes of a London-born 12-year-old boy, Tijani. Strangely, Tijani gets involved in a street fight in which a boy was hurt. Convinced that Tijani needs discipline, Teema, his mum, decides to take him to the Gambia to live with her sister.
On their arrival at Banjul, Tijani encounters what he considers to be a simple apparition - a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing afterwards. However, seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day, sets in motion a chain of events which culminated in him getting lost. While the panic-stricken Teema, his mother , struggles with the police to locate her son in an intriguing game of survival, Tijani is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, who is only visible to him. He takes Tijani on a magical journey through the dark belly of the forest.
After a brief and adventurous stint in the forest, Tijani emerges the next day, a bewildered boy for whom the lines between reality and fantasy have been forever blurred. His arrival at a time of mourning in a small kingdom foils the evil machinations of a desperate queen who threatened by his innocence tried to wield her mysterious powers over him. A cathartic climax helps Tijani to unravel the mystery of the Mirror Boy.
It also provides him with a rather mystical explanation for the way his life has been transformed by this 13th of June encounter towards a father he has never met. With Genevieve and Osita featuring in the movie, pundits are already predicting that the movie might be another blockbuster from a Nigerian in the diaspora.
Written by Samuel Olatunji
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