MOVIE TITLE: TALOYE

PRODUCER: DIPO OLAJIDE

DIRECTOR: TAIWO BELLO

ARTIST: KAYODE AKINBAYO, TOPE BALI, BIODUN OKEOWO, MAYOWA

PRODUCTION YEAR: 2009

LENTH OF FILM: 1HR 50MIN

GENRE: MELO DRAMA

CAMERA ANGLE: USED ALMOST ALL THE CAMERA ANGLES

CAMERA SHOT: USED MORE OF CLOSE-UP SHOT AND MID-CLOSE UP SHOT

REVIEWER’S NAME: ADEOLA FISAYO REBECCA

PLOT:

The central idea of the movie is about two best friend, Ayo (tope bali) and ola(biodun okero). Who found themselves entangled with a guy named gbolahan (Kayode Adebayo) who happened to be the son of senator godfred Jones. Ola and Ayo’s friendship came to a halt and betrayal set in when Ola fell in love with Gbolahan, Ayo’s friend whom she met during a chart on the internet.




Ayo, who already had a finance’ named mayowa was dumped by him because ola’s jealousy pushed her to report Ayo’s interest in gbolahan to him. The result of Ola’s action caused Mayowa to call off the engagement he had with Ayo claiming that she was a slot and wouldn’t make a good wife to him.
In a mission to revenge what Ola did, Ayo decided to pay her back by sleeping with gbolahan behind her back and she ended up getting pregnant for him but refused admitting it her friend pretending they were still best friends that she would tell her when the timing was right.
After nine month, Ayo was rushed to the delivery room to have baby and Ola was called to come to the hospital. But as she was on her way to the hospital, she had an accident and lost her sight. Because she lost her sight, she was forced to live with gbolahan and Ayo took advantage of this situation and promised to stay with her so that she could be helping around the house. But with an ulterior motive of making gbolahan her husband.
Gbolahan’s mother caught Ayo and her son making out together and decided to set a trap for her. She took Ola to the hospital for an operation that turn out successful and she regained her sight again. But she begged Ola to still pretend she was still blind so that she could see what she wanted her to see. Ola obeyed her and decided to play along not knowing why she was to hide the joy of her sight recovery to her fiancée and her best friend.
On their arrival from the hospital, Ola pretended she wasn’t seeing, that the operation did not go well. Ayo hearing the operation wasn’t successful decided to have a nice time with gbolahan in the sitting room but was got by Ola. Ola could not believe her eyes and she started screaming and calling Ayo bad names but Ayo reminded her of how she caused her to lose her fiancé and told her is pay back time that she already has a child for gbolahan.
The movie ended with both Ayo and Ola losing gbolahan because gbolanhan’s mother said that she would never allow anyone of them to marry her son because if they were that evil to betray each other in that manner, they would end up killing her son. The son Ayo had for gbolahan was taken from her and taken care of by gbolahan’s mother.

COMENTS: Although storyline was good, but there were little lapses and flaws in the movie.