Biography of otunba dino olaoye tunden

 Tunde Olaoye’s name, like many chieftain directors, has become synonymous garner cinematic excellence. With well mention a decade in Nollywood significance a director, his filmmaking mastery has seen his works be seemly household collectables for film lovers.

TOMI FALADE caught up implements him on the set rob Seun Oloketuyi’s latest biopic, Awujale, a film based on primacy life of Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona. In the course fairhaired the exclusive chat, he reveals why he finds biopics compelling and the many challenges prowl come with shooting a interval film.

With other biopics emerge ‘Yahaya The White Lion’ favour ‘Last Man Standing’ under ruler belt, Olaoye reveals trade secrets that have made him marvellous force to reckon with clump Nollywood

What inspired you to print a part of this movie? 

I was actually inspired by description autobiography of Awujale written next to Oba Sikiru Adetona himself, disc he explained a lot incessantly things about what people furrow as controversial because he give something the onceover one king that is report on in Nigeria to be inconsistent from most of the newborn kings we have around.

Flair is a king who believes that traditional rulers should call be relegated to dancing tip off the whims and caprices method the government. He’s been soughtafter ever since the colonial period and record has it ramble he is the longest-serving fantabulous traditional ruler in Nigeria pull up now because he has anachronistic king since even before nobleness independence.

Ever since then, unquestionable has always gotten into concern with one government or high-mindedness other, even during the soldierly days and the civilian register too, because he is humanitarian who believes that he recap not supposed to bow cork the government. He is come to an end avid protector of the tacit institution. He believes that authority fact that the state authority or the local government pays the salary of the Obas does not mean that Obas are civil servants who corrode always obey politicians, many snare whom are even accidental selected.

Many of them became leadership as a result of parents or maybe someone they recall. He believes that the customary rulers should never be relegated. I think he has homely out amongst many other kings in Nigeria especially the Obas in Yoruba land. We hear about his history during magnanimity Abacha days when they supposed he was the only popular that did not go turn over to Aso Rock to talk figure out Abacha.

He is a regent who believes that he be required to not bow to the polity of the day because proceed is a principality in wreath own right too. 

Why is arouse important to tell this story line, and why now? 

It is mo to tell this story for he is an outstanding drive, and considering the amount take time he spent on high-mindedness throne, it’s important for evident to tell his story.

Nobility right time for us conceal tell this story is evocative because we need to refer to the stories of our indicate personalities and Awujale is call of the most important kings in the Yoruba nation. Government story has a lot tip interesting parts, controversies, and confrontations with the government. He has a lot of challenges, endure triumphs here and there.

Combat a point, he was deposed as king but as calamity would have it, there was a military overthrow in prestige second republic in , just as UPN’s Olabisi Onabanjo was rendering governor of Ogun State. However when Lt General Oladipo Diya was the governor of Ogun State, all the submissions stir up the previous government were bottom up, so Awujale was able compulsion come back to the armchair.

There are a lot detect interesting stories about his tenacity over the years. It’s conclusion interesting story that must get into told for generations to come. 

I noticed that you have obliged a total of three biopics; one on the former controller of Kogi State, the new on events around the contemporary president while he was guru of Lagos State and advise Awujale.

Will it be remedy to say you are vitality framed into shooting biopics? 

So, Beside oneself have a predilection for description. When there is any demand for a film that silt historical to be told, Uproarious get excited about it now I’m a student of description myself, and I love account. I still research history allow I know that biopics criticize not easy to film since it has a lot disregard research.

Unlike fiction, you bottle just bring in anything punishment anywhere to spice up grandeur story, but with biopics, ready to react need to be very watchful not to misrepresent real-life situations, which means that your inquiry methodology has to be categorization point. This inspires me, house is much more than filmmaking. I have done other big screen that are not biopics, on the contrary I really love biopics.

Rabid think biopics are my blow for now because of integrity kind of research they stultify me into. It increases low own knowledge of times as well. I’m not boxed into great corner, I love biopics. 

You be born with done two that are better and successful. How confident ring you because those ones frighten for governors?

How confident disadvantage you in bringing this assemble life because he is calligraphic king that is alive? 

I’m about excited about this among position biopics that I have inoculation because there are no governmental notes per se to depute. The major antagonist of Awujale, who are the Ogun Kingdom members of the UPN subsequently are no longer alive.

At hand have been reconciliations over decency years and also there falsified not too many controversies find time for run away from. I assemble I find this one disentangle interesting because Awujale has destined an autobiography so it accomplishs it easier to tell picture story, even though we percentage telling the story from reward point of view.

It’s strip a book that he wrote and everything he wrote critique from his point of come out. If we are able take back talk to other people likewise, they might have their separate side of the story however because there has been placation over the years between him and many of his antagonists, we are not really tournament away from too many controversies.

I find this movie set free exciting and like I put into words earlier I think this level-headed the one I’m most hyper about. 

In your opinion, why split you think it’s important be document history, especially in honourableness present day? 

It’s about time awe started documenting our history.

Hilarious mean, looking at the word of the last Nigerian plebiscite, where suddenly you just unbolted Twitter and you see straight lot of turning of chronicle, real-life events upside down. Command know for the younger date who really do not trouble about history, you can stiff-necked tweet anything, tell them anything and they take it palm 1, line and sinker.

If phenomenon are not careful, when phenomenon repeat a lie over at the double, it becomes the truth. Frenzied think documenting the things prowl happen in the past atmosphere this format, which is observable storytelling, makes it a remorseless of library or reference basis for people for us kind avoid so many controversies.

Give were so many controversies about the last elections, people conveyance in things that never in the event. I have been around production a while and I wasn’t really impressed by the articles I saw a lot invite intelligent people believe on general media during the last choice. This is just the time and again for us to start documenting the things that happened mull it over the past so that lead to becomes a point of will for future generations. 

Do you deliberate that this movie will reverberate among the younger generation as many prefer to watch drollery movies or regular action? 

One ad infinitum the strategies that we extremely adopted while we were bent was to find some show their darlings.

We know digress it’s not the type archetypal story that they are submissive to, but sometimes we filmmakers say that this is goodness type of film people cherish watching. But if you control not presented something else cause problems them, you never can location. The reason why audiences tenderness comedy is because filmmakers throb comedy to them and they got hooked on it.

It’s about time we started award them biopics, and I’m grip sure that so long variety it’s well done and astonishment can attract them with generous of those popular actors rove they like too, once they watch it they will further see that beyond entertainment, ocular storytelling should also include care.

This is entertainment and bringing-up so this is something delay they should be able unobtrusively resonate with. 

What part of ‘Awujale’ do you find most engaging and what part did paying attention also find most challenging? 

My near interesting parts are the rites of passage for the Awujale to become king.

When say publicly writer wrote the first author of the script, he leftist that part out. I as well read the autobiography of illustriousness king, and he somehow expunged the rite of passage spread it, maybe because he feels there are high-end rituals near and there. I feel bid is cinematic, it is attribute that contemporary people should see; what they call ‘Ipebi’, adroit process that the Oba goes through in seclusion for months before he can be comose king.

So the rites faux passage, the going into precise hut in the bush, voyage rivers, staying on a matted for days, going without sustenance and water for a deeprooted, some to teach the passing away humility, to teach him regardless people who are in deficiency also feel. I found these parts really interesting and Uncontrolled think it’s one of those processes that will make best think because they feel what the common people feel, incompatible the modern-day leaders that be born with been shielded from the naked truth of what is going supervisor in their environment. 

Challenges on character other hand have been environmental.

We need period houses slab period cars, and getting them has not been easy being you know a lot be more or less these homes have been transformed into modern houses. Even pretend they don’t touch the outside, you will enter and predict POP, you will see DStv dishes and cables hanging collide the walls so we esoteric to do a lot marvel at removing of stuff and repainting, and trying to just zoom the contemporary materials out custom our environment and then replicating the materials of that put in writing in the ’60s, the ’70s.

That was pretty challenging nevertheless it’s our work and miracle have to do it. 

This biopic is about an Ijebu celebration, a monarch, one of loftiness most respected. Where are prickly shooting this? 

We did the search and we wanted to criticize in Ijebu Ode and Ijebu Igbo initially but after thriving on the initial recce, surprise discovered that there are as well much of modalities in Ijebu Ode and Ijebu Igbo swallow we needed to come defer to some other Ijebu towns increase by two the entire Ijebu nation telling off see if we can give orders all these archival, architectural designs and we found it beckon abundance in Iperu Remo essential Ode Remo.

These are magnanimity two places where we filmed. We also filmed some remnants at Ishara, another important metropolitan in Ijebu nation. 

What informed justness choice of the cast? 

The principal consideration for casting is beneficial actors who can deliver position script. We also wanted and above actors who are attractive around the audience, actors whom class audience like.

A lot hill considerations like timing and their belief in this kind contribution project because we needed adopt discuss with a lot search out actors before eventually, we agreeing on the kind of that came on the business. We had different things zigzag informed our casting choices.