Singer, Simisola Ogunleye, popularly known as Simi, is set to feature in a Nollywood movie by ace producer and actor, Kunle Afolayan and we’re super excited.
The songstress shared a funny boomerang on her Instagram page while holding a movie script.
She wrote;
@kunleafo and a girl with a script she likes very much ?
Simi will be playing Simi; daughter of a Buka (cafeteria)owner whose character holds a significant part in the movie plot.
The songstress will be acting alongside notable actors like Femi Adebayo, Ayo Adesanya, Faithia Williams, Lateef Oladimeji and comic actors like Wale Akorede (Okunu), Ayo Ogunshina (Papa Lolo) and Dayo Akinpelu (Alabi Yellow).
‘Mokalik’ (Mechanic) follows the career of an 11-year-old boy, Jaiye, from the middle-class suburbs who spends the day as a lowly apprentice at a mechanic workshop in order to view life from the other side of the tracks. Afolayan says ‘Mokalik’ is a slight departure from the flicks he had shot in the past, adding that there will be two versions of the film; one for the Nigerian market – the other for the international market.
Screen-played by Tunde Babalola, inspiration for the story, according to the filmmaker came during his constant visit to the mechanic workshop where he refurbished his much publicised Vintage car (Thunderbird Ford 1965) recently, while the film title, a Yoruba corrupt pronunciation of mechanic is from a scene in one of his late father (Ade Love)’s classic, ‘Taxi Driver’.
We can’t wait to see Simi display her acting talent as she is already doing great with her music and sound engineering.
