{"id":54846,"date":"2022-01-22T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/?p=54846"},"modified":"2022-01-22T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T07:18:19","slug":"new-movies-lack-focus-actor-emeka-ossai-knocks-new-nollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/22\/new-movies-lack-focus-actor-emeka-ossai-knocks-new-nollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New movies lack focus,&#8221; Actor Emeka Ossai knocks &#8216;New Nollywood&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nollywood actor and director, Emeka Ossai has shared his sentiment about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/29\/nollywood-veteran-kanayo-o-kanayo-celebrates-chieftaincy-title-with-new-mansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;New Nollywood&#8217;<\/a> blaming originality in Nollywood movies on the new hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emeka Ossai made this statement during the visit of members of the Creative Industry Group visit to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos where he claimed that most of the new movies lack focus.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Nollywood was pulled out of nothing by the deliberate efforts of the veterans and they keep working to keep that name afloat regardless of whatever happens.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe veterans started the path called Nollywood some years back and were able to colonize Africa and the diaspora to love our contents and to love Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo sustain Nollywood, the kind of story we tell should be original and indigenous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people have infiltrated the industry with colonial mentality of doing business. They want to adulterate our culture by bringing in some content outside our cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople acting and mimicking the whites when they are blacks by speaking through their nostrils and changing the trajectory from contemporary Africa stories should rethink.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54849\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/ogbeniskilla\/2022\/01\/21\/Emeka-Ossai.jpg\" alt=\"Emeka Ossai on New Nollywood\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/ogbeniskilla\/2022\/01\/21\/Emeka-Ossai.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/ogbeniskilla\/2022\/01\/21\/Emeka-Ossai-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/ogbeniskilla\/2022\/01\/21\/Emeka-Ossai-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/01\/ogbeniskilla\/2022\/01\/21\/Emeka-Ossai-750x430.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emeka Ossai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The actor and director also had something to say about bringing untrained actors into the industry and giving them big roles without assuring quality performance.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that in his days, an individual could play the &#8216;waka pass&#8217; role for ten years before getting the chance to play a big role.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome producers of movies have created &#8216;New Nollywood&#8217; by bringing in untrained artistes. 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