Kunle Afolayan has been on a Nollywood movie streak for the longest while now, and the honest truth is that the filmmaker and movie producer doesn’t look to be hanging his boots anytime soon.
From the desk of movies such as Citation, Anikulapo, Gold Statue, amongst many other movies accredited to his name, Kunle Afolayan has been able to carve a well established niche for himself, and establishing himself as a filmmaker who is able to capture vividly the Yoruba culture in his movies.
A very recent movie of his which is now available on movie streaming platforms such as Netflix is Ijogbon (Chaos). The movie which dropped on the 13th of October, 2023, is yet another mark of Kunle Afolayan’s brilliance, and his ability to tell stories while not deflecting from the Yoruba culture.
The movie starring legendary actors such as Yemi Solade, Bimbo Manuel, Yemi Shodimu, Sam Dede as well as new cats of the Nollywood industry such as Ruby Akubueze, Kayode Ojuolape, Fawaz Aina, amongst many others.
The movie’s location was set in Oyo State, and follows the plot of four teenagers in the rural village of Oyo-Oke who stumbled on a pouch of uncut diamonds, which metamorphoses into a phase of chaos and troubles for them.
However, as enjoyable as the movie is, there are also some certain gaps of the movie which borders on annoying characters in the movie whose actions were tiring as well as repulsive.
Though delivering their roles exceptionally well, the annoyance of their characters perhaps is what makes their cast deliverance flawless.
Here are five characters from Ijogbon we think were annoying —
1. Jamiu (Kayode Ojuolape)
Jamiu represents a typical teenage boy who has the undying need to be ahead of his peers, has eyes bigger than that of an owl and will do absolutely anything to be revered by everyone. First, his curiosity in discovering the pouch of diamonds and the bossiness to keeping it to himself, even risking his friend, Ranti’s life when the real owners came for their property.
Let’s not even start on his obsession with “Canada”.
There would be no way to portray Jamiu’s annoying role other than imploring you to watch the movie.
2. Broda Kasali (Gabriel Afolayan)
While his annoying self did not really surface as much, Broda Kasali indeed happens to be the dumbest character in the movie. Explain to us why you would steal a pouch of diamond and decide the next stop would be a woman’s house? To make matters worse, you dangle the woman before her other lover and end up in his own pool of blood — his actions are nothing short of foolish. Looking on the bright side of things, the popular saying “something must kill a man” applied to him, only he died for the cause of a woman. No woman, no diamond.
3. Bisi (Dorathy Bachor)
Bisi’ role from the start of Ijogbon, to the end, where she was callously slayed by her lover, Chief Owonifaari, is somewhat hilarious. Her role as a bitter side chic was annoying, with her incessant gum chewing and side snicks. For someone who carried herself with such air of “amebo” and cheap Oyo-Oke “high class babe” energy, she died a pitiful death because her ‘other’ lover, Broda Kasali, won’t stop yapping. This is what you get when you’re not selective about choice of lovers!
4. Chief Owonifaari (Yemi Solade)
This man had no business whatsoever in the affairs of the stolen pouch of diamonds! His death could have been avoided solely by him, if he had quietly purchased the four stones of diamond, and went about his illegal car importation business. But no! Imagine going through so much stress for diamonds that aren’t yours, and ending up dying for no reason whatsoever. Diamonds, no, life, no. Just died for no reason. He humorously got hit on the head even by young teenage girl, Oby; which is super funny.
He didn’t die like that though, he murdered Kasali, his loyal boy-boy and his “loyal” lover, Bisi.
5. Kafachan (Funky Mallam)
Kafachan explains the rizz that ‘abokis’ carry about these days. For someone with so much rizz and boastful strength, young teenage kids outsmarted him not once, but twice. His role wasn’t all that annoying, only his stereotypical roles in movies did not allow one to fully embrace his “bad boy” vibe in Ijogbon, which was quite annoying.
We won’t be spilling everything about this movie here, but do well to watch Ijogbon (Chaos) on Netflix this new week, it’s a solid 8/10 project!