Odunlade Adekola No Longer Invites Me To His Productions – Lalude

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Veteran actor Fatai Adetayo, also known as Lalude, has said that Odunlade Adekola no longer invites him to act in his movie productions. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, despite featuring in a movie that helped bring Adekola to public attention, the popular moviestar no longer features him in his movies.

His words, “Odunlade no longer invite me to his productions and I acted in part of the movies that brought him to limelight.”

Lalude has also spoken in previous interviews about his long career in theatre and film, emphasizing that even though he regularly plays the role of a traditional healer on screen, he does not possess any mystical powers.

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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.