Odunlade Adekola Accepted N130K To Feature In My Movie – Habibat Jinad

Odunlade Adekola

Nollywood actress Habibat Jinad has said that she once paid Odunlade Adekola N130,000 to star in her latest movie. She recently had her say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, she was very shocked when the veteran actor accepted her humble payment because the amount is far below what many top moviestars would normally charge.

Appreciating Odunlade for supporting her career as a producer, she declared that his kind gesture left a permanent mark on her heart.

Her words, “Brother Odun, God bless you. If I remember what he did, my heart prays for him.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.