MAFISERE

TITLE: MAFISERE
GENRE: MELODRAMA
WRITER: SALAMI MUFUTAU
DIRECTOR: NURENI AREMU LARRY
RELEASE DATE: 2009
REVIEW: BY ABAH AJUMA MARY
PLOT:
Mafisere, an interesting and educative Yoruba movie is about a beautiful but self-centered and foolish young woman, Layo (Bukky Raji), who has many male admirers and therefore toys with her true love. She has little appreciation for character in a man and she is not even sure of what she wants in her man.
This confusion of hers is seen when she keeps cheating on Tunde (Ibrahim Chatta) who is supposed to be her boyfriend. She even leaves him twice for other men only to come back pleading for forgiveness.
Tunde loves Layo so much that he breaks his engagement to a princess whose father gave him a house and a company of his own when Layo comes back to him promising to marry him. But she cheats on him again. This time, she loses him for good as he impregnates and promises to marry her friend Bolanle (Mercy Aigbe), saying that he loves Layo but his destiny is not compatible with hers.
Layo ends up pathetically as the third wife of an illitrate and goes to live with his mother in his village because he cannot pay for her upkeep in the city.
MAIN CAST: Ibrahim Chatta, Bukky Raji, Mercy Aigbe, Biola Adebayo and Akin Olaiya.
CINEMATOGRAPHY; CAMERA SPEED: there was no slow motion in the entire film.
CAMERA SHOT: The predominant shot used in the film is close up medium shot.
CAMERA PLACEMENT OR ANGLE: mid angle
THEME: compatible destinies, not only love is the key to a lasting and better romantic relationship between a man and a woman.
SETTING: Lagos city
COUNTRY: Nigeria
LANGUAGE: Yoruba