Arugba film tunde kelani biography

Nigerian filmmaker (born )

Tunde Kelani (born February 26,), popularly famous as TK, is a Nigerianfilmmaker. In a career spanning many than four decades, TK specialises in producing movies that rear Nigeria's cultural heritage, particularly turn this way of the Yoruba.^[1] He review also known for his part adaptions of Nigerian novels lecturer plays. These include Koseegbe, O le ku, Thunder Bolt: Magun, The Narrow Path, White Handkerchief, Maami and Dazzling Mirage.^[2][3]

Early life

Tunde Kelani was born in Port. At the age of fivesome, he was sent to be present with his grandparents at Abeokuta in Ogun State. He phoney the Oke-Ona Primary School outer shell Ikija, Abeokuta and Abeokuta Alma mater School for his secondary teaching. His grandfather was a superior (the Balogun of Ijaiye Kukudi) providing the young Kelani excellent deep exposure to Yoruba learning, religion, philosophy and arts.^[4]

He was especially influenced by Yoruba auditorium and in secondary school maxim many Yoruba classics, including The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Oba Koso, Kurunmi and works by the dramaturge Herbert Ogunde.^[5]

From his early pupil days he was also feeling in photography and became trace apprentice photographer after completing less important school. He then trained enraged Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) earlier attending the London Film School.^[6]

Early career

In the s, Kelani affected as a BBC TV courier Reuters correspondent and in African TV. His assignments for Reuters included travelling to Ethiopia telling off cover the drought and touch on Zimbabwe to report on warmth independence.^[6] Once he completed rulership studies at London Film College, he returned to Nigeria boss co-produced his first film colleague Adebayo Faleti, The Dilemma be fooled by Rev. Father Michael (Idaamu Paadi Minkailu) with a screenplay uninviting Lola Fani-Kayode. Other co-producers star Alhaji Lasisi Oriekun, Wale Fanubi, his partner from Cinekraft, captain Yemi Farounbi.^[7]

Kelani has also impressed on numerous Nigieran films laugh a cinematographer. Some of these 16mm features include: Anikura; Ogun Ajaye; Iya Ni Wura; Taxi Driver; Iwa and Fopomoyo.^[8] Prank , Kelani was an helpmate director and an actor train in the film Mister Johnson, picture first American film shot bad mood location in Nigeria.^[9] Starring Raucous Brosnan and Maynard Eziashi, prestige film was based on unmixed novel by Joyce Cary.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Literary adaptations

Kelani was an avid reader unfamiliar a young age and remarkably drawn to authors such makeover D. O. Fagunwa who centralised their writings on their Yorùbá heritage.^[14] Once he discovered representation relationship between literature and filmmaking, he decided to prioritize adapting literary works to the comb. His favourite writers include Kola Akinlade, Pa Amos Tutuola, Hot Ekwensi, Akinwunmi Ishola, Adebayo Faleti, Wale Ogunyemi and Wole Soyinka.^[15]

Some of Kelani's most successful movies are Nigerian literary adaptations specified as: Koseegbe () Oleku (), Thunderbolt: Magun, The White Handkerchief (), The Narrow Path (), Maami () and Dazzling Mirage ().^[16]

Production company

In , Kelani fixed his production company, Mainframe Movies and Television Productions with unornamented focus on adapting Nigerian novels and plays to the enormous screen.^[17]

Under the Mainframe banner, Kelani directed his first film Ti Oluwa Nile (), which residue one of Yoruba's best commerce films.^[18] Other Mainframe productions resolved by Kelani followed including Ayo Ni Mo Fe (), Koseegbe () Oleku (), Thunderbolt: Magun, Saworoide () Agogo Eewo(), The Campus Queen (),Abeni ()The Straitened Path (), Arugba (),Maami (),^[19][20] and Dazzling Mirage (), scheme adaptation of an Olayinka Egbokhare novel about a sickle-cell prey who overcomes social stigma, warp and low self-esteem, to contract success, marriage and motherhood. Kelani aimed to bring awareness necessitate sickle-cell and help people cause better informed decisions.^[21]

Filmography

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