By AGBO FAVOUR AMARACHI
“THE PARTY” serves us a young man’s mysterious death at a lavish Lagos party which triggers an investigation that uncovers hidden truth and ulterior motives
The movie featured Kunle Remi, Uzor Arukwe, Ben Touitou, Ray Adeka, Ayoola Ayolola, Shaffy Bello, Bimbo Manuel, and Kehinde Bankole, among others.
Directed by Mayowa Bakare and Nmachukwu Lebechukwu, “THE PARTY” all started when Bobola’s colleague(James Gardiner) was acknowledging him for his hard work and all the people he has helped over the years and when he was about to lift a toast to him, suddenly, he fell from a high building into a swimming pool and Chidi(Ben Touitou) jumped inside the pool and brought him out but before then, he was already dead! Everyone was shocked and Bobola’s mother’s Pastor saw a vision that the “the person who killed your son will give you a spotless gift”
Bobola(Kunle Remi), his parents Chief Akintunde Balogun(Bimbo Manuel) and Chief Mrs Mojoyin Balogun(Shaffy Bello), was the CEO in his father’s company and had four good friends, John Paul(Uzor Arukwe) Martins(Ayoola Ayolola) Chidi( Ben Touitou) Ayo(Ray Adeka) and they used to call themselves “the single guys club” until Chidi married first, though nothing changed but when Bobola married Motunrayo (Kehinde Bankole) everything changed. Because of Bobola’s wife, the ‘Single Guys’ stopped doing things together, his wife also stopped Bobola’s mother from visiting.
During Bobola’s death investigation, the investigators took their time to look at the crime scene and investigated everyone including Bobola’s friends and his parents but all fingers pointed at his wife. But as the investigation progressed, the viewer got to find out that his wife was innocent and the intrigue got deeper till it got to the point it was revealed that Bobola’s father was cheating on Bobola’s mother with her best friend, Kafayat (Funmi Martins) for 20 years and they had four children within those years!
As it is in Yoruba culture, parents are not expected to be in their child’s funeral. The parents of Bobola drove by their son’s grave and was crying because they can’t go near it and suddenly Bobola’s colleague(James Gardiner) came by and gave her a gift and she remembered the apostle’s vision and knew that her son’s killer was standing In front of her.
The movie is a great one, it’s filled with suspense but it was left unresolved because it did not clarify who the actual killer was. Perhaps a sequel is being planned, but all the same, ‘The Party’ is a good Nollywood try.
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