MAAMi: A FILM BY TUNDE KELANI

TITLE: Ma'ami

RELEASED: 2011

WRITTEN BY: Femi Osofisan

SCREENPLAY: Tunde Babalola

CAST: Funke Akindele, Wole Ojo, Tamilore Kuboye, Ayomide Abati

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES: Yinka Davies, Kayode Balogun, Olumide Bakare, Fatai Rolling Dollar, Biodun Kupoluyi

Log Line

She has always been the center of his world, but now, he longs for an absent father, with a dark secret...!

Synopsis

Single parent MAAMi, and her young son are desperately poor. Gifted with a loving heart, enterprising spirit, and brave soul, she is the center of her son's world, until he longs for a father he has never known, a man with a terrible secret.

Set over a two day period, leading to the 2010 World Cup, MAAMi is an inspiring story of a poor conscientious single parent's struggles to raise her only child Kashimawo, who, eventually, rises to international stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero. Adapted by Tunde Babalola, from Femi Osofisan's novel, of the same name, this film is about love, perseverance, and fate unfolds though Kashimawo's reminiscences of his hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta. 

 

Tunde Kelani and Ayomide Abati

Funke Akindele in action

Wole Ojo in action

Tamilore Kuboye

Tunde Kelani checking the weather