A 15-second drum roll and the title of the film, "Deceptive Heart," comes crashing onto the screen in a groovy 1970s font.
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept, 18. 2013, Nollywood actors perform a scene in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Less
than 10 minutes into the Nollywood movie, the heart of plot is
revealed: A woman has two boyfriends and doesn't know what to do.
The
story moves as quickly as the film appears to have been shot. Some
scenes are shaky, with cameras clearly in need of a tripod, and musical
montages are often filled with pans of the same building.
Most Nollywood movies are made in less than 10 days and cost about $25,000.
Fueled
by low budgets and whirlwind production schedules, Nigeria's film
industry has grown by some estimates over the past 20-plus years into
the most prolific on Earth, pushing out more movies a year than
Hollywood in California or Bollywood in Mumbai, India.
Hollywood
tends to portray Africa as an exotic land of deserts and giraffes,
populated by huddling masses, according to Samuel Olatunje, a Nollywood
publicist known in the business as "Big Sam".
Nigerian movies are
popular because they portray African people more accurately, Big Sam
explains outside his single-room Lagos office.




















When
ENCOMIUM Weekly got across to her on her mobile phone, a happy Yetunde
said all is now over. Not only that, she is back fully in the industry
to continue with what she knows how to do best as against her previous
plan to quit the profession after the disgraceful episode of Sunday,
January 12, 2014.

















