After going hiatus for a while on
my blog, massive events have happened in my life that if I begin to share, you
will open your mouth and will not close it until a creeping insect finds its
way down your throat.
The throttle pace with which things just
unfolded in the space of two months has mammothly overwhelmed even me and a lot
of people have sent me inboxes, email, calls and text asking why the blog seems
not to be really functioning for a while now but the truth is, when the mind is
as crowded as mine, it is harder to find the pen that can express it.
But here we are, yet unfortunate that this is not the gist for today!
Today’s gist is about a premiere I
attended on the 7th of December 2014 at the Oriental Hotel by Maxima
Production outfit and I really had a great time at the place. First, it was my
first time of attending a function at the Oriental Hotel (supposedly owned by
the Godfather of Lagos Politics; Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu) and you should hear
my wife sounding out directions on the phone to me; she was feeling fly that
that she had been to Oriental Hotel and I hadn’t; as if they paid into someone’s
bank account for that singular reason. Shiooooor!
Secondly, the drama which
premiered at the Oriental hotel had all the trappings of quality mixed with
ingenuity. The executive producer is a young man who goes by the name Femi
Ogundolo and like Uti Nwachukwu, who was the MC of the occasson rightly said
about him, he was a very unassuming man. He birthed this idea and it is a
masterpiece.
The drama, Allison’s Stand season
2 is a soap opera about a career woman, Bolatito, who had to contend with the
choice of family or a career path. The inevitably conflicting journey pans out
in our contemporary society as more and more women take up Executive positions
in big multinationals and the stress of combining these huge responsibilities
can be telling. The story is just a reflection of the realities on ground and
Mr. Ogundolo spelt out the mission of his company while giving his welcoming
speech that the purpose of the soap opera was ‘not only to show to the people
drama for its sake but also to provoke the thought process about contemporary challenges
for real time players in our society and the best possible way to create unique
solutions to them’.
Clips were shown and the audience
clapped resoundingly for the energetic purpose with which the project was
birthed and the excellent work from pre-production through to post-production. The
cast and crew were invited to the floor, exhibited to the audience; asked
several questions and asked to take a bow.
Undoubtedly, it was a WOW night,
full of energy, pomp and this soap opera will not be your normal TV drama
series but one that will change the thought process of a nation or continent
for years to come.
It will start showing from 20th
of December 2014 on stations like AIT, Silverbird, African Magic and the rest
of other terrestrial Stations in the continent. Our fingers are crossed and we
can’t wait to see the first episode of the season 2 of Allison’s Stand. Apparently,
the season 1 came out last two year as a test run but this is far better and
more improved as the Producer, Directors and cast made us to know.
Allison’s Stand may not favour a
lot of people but if thrown in such a scenario, where will you stand?
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