FORGET ME NOT

Director: Ikechuwu Onyeka
Story/screenplay: Chisom Juliet Okeke
Make-up: Temisan Isioma Etsede
Location manager: Vera Kanu


Cast (starring)
Desmond Elliot-Kelvin
Muna Obiekwe- nelson
Ini Edo- chioma
Kofi Adjorlolo- Cheif Jumbo
Tonto Dikeh- Olivia
Cassandra Odita- Ngozi
Esther more- Dora
Nosa Obaseki
Ifunaya onunwa
Uche oduputa- Alex
Chukwudi Nwafor- Jonah
Esther Aikopokpoje- Olivia’s mother
Jim Lawson- Chief Mbah

Genre: though it was difficult to pick the genre I will say it is comedy.
Name of reviewer: Onabanjo Olusola
Review (plot summary)
Two couples find themselves in relationships of circumstance and convenience rather than love. Kelvin ends up marrying his wife (Dora) after she tells him that she is pregnant after casually sleeping with him. He does not love her but wants to face up to his responsibilities as a man and make an “honest woman” of her. His best friend (Nelson) knows that he is pining to his true love that he has recently split up with and advises him against the marriage seeing it as a recipe for disaster.
Kelvin does not heed nelson’s advice and he rushed into the marriage with Dora in the registry. The bride’s father is not even present in the marriage. It is not long that his forever alcohol guzzling wife informs him that she is not pregnant for him and was never pregnant for him. She said it was simply a story she concocted to trap him into marriage.
Chioma(ini-edo)on the other is in a relationship with a very nice, caring and supportive man that dotes on her and her five year old daughter Benita from a previous relationship with Kelvin though he did not know he had a daughter. He proposed to her many times but she is always refusing and finally one day she accepted after he pleads with her. Chioma cared for the man but she did not love him. She told her friend Olivia.
Kelvin found out about his daughter with Chioma through the help of his best friend. She begs for her forgiveness and they came back together happily ever after.

Some things I found funny about the movie.
1) What was up with Tonto Dikeh’s pregnancy bulge? The pregnancy looked like bulge like a box-like shape, totally unrealistic. A pregnancy bulge should be curvy not box-like or angular.
2) Why were Ini Edo and Tonto Dikeh so matchy matchy (too colourful)? The styling was too much. There were a lot of fashion blunders in the movie and colours were everywhere in the air. Though there were nice dressing but the matching were too much. Be careful of colours.
3) Y did Ini Edo dress in such skimpy clothes? Is it that the producers told her to wear them or she just felt like. She wore too tight dresses and short ones. She doesn’t portray a good Nigerian woman.
4) D lady Dora wore a very ugly wedding gown and obvious wigs with weird colours? She should have at least worn a better wedding gown so as to portray a good image of her as a rich kid. She should also have gone for colourless wigs. Black would have been the best.
Conclusion.
The film was enjoyable. All the cast did a great job, except for the lady that played Dora (that was a little messy) and the little girl that played Benita (she was wooden) as in stiff. There were a few nice twists although on the whole it was predictable. Kelvin needs a little more work on his character development in a minute, he was coming across sincere like he loves chioma and the next time he becomes arrogant and behaves as if he does not care about her (chioma)


Themes: marriage of convenience, friendship and love
Rating: 65%
Location: ikeja, Lagos Nigeria.
Quotes: “you are bastards”,” I think I like him.......love him”
Sound track: I love it that way by westlife.
Camera movement: the film finished in a sharp way for the audience to still be reminiscing in their minds.