Nollywood film director Charles Novia has described the Nollywood @ 20 Awards Night held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, as a sham and a show of shame.
The actor and producer, in a statement posted on the Nollywood @ 20 site, condemned the services of the hotel where the event held, saying there were incessant and disgraceful power cuts and interruptions within the show.
“I counted such power cuts three times and it was more shameful when some young group of dancers were in the middle of their dance routine on stage,” Novia wrote.
“Hadn’t there been a year long hype around this event? Hadn’t we been inundated with television commercials on major national and satellite television stations asking people to prepare for a spectacular celebration? If this event was intended to be the Mother of all Nollywood Celebrations, then all we witnessed last night was an abortion and a stillbirth rolled into one.
“From the time-wasting red carpet event before the show which was scheduled for 5 pm but was behind schedule, to the avoidable goofs of the whole show, one can only shake one’s head in derision. This wasn’t Nollywood at 20. This was Nollywood at 2!
“The faux pas of the National Anthem which started the show prepared us all for a night of ineptitude. Singer, Mor Okonkwo, who is my friend (but I told her I would be hard on her in my review anyway) was announced by the compere, Olisa Adibua, to come up to sing the National Anthem. As she got on stage,the DJ started playing the instrumental of the Anthem. Mor gave a few false notes and shrieked as she ran backstage into the microphone, ‘Stop the music!’.”
Novia added that because of the lack of co-ordination, comperes Olisa Adibua and Marian Anazodo had a herculean task trying to prove their mettle.
“The hall was empty before the show reached its prime, if there was an intended prime part of the show. I guess many guests had reached the limits of their patience,” he said.
But it is not all knocks for the organisers of the event. I must commend them for bringing together all the protagonists of the Nollywood Story in one fell swoop. They did it before at the first dinner held on November 4, which was a better sham than last night’s event.
“Thankfully, there will be no ‘Part 2′ of this kind of shit. And in case some upstart is planning ‘Nollywood at 25′, don’t even try it. Not with the crap of last night.”
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