Sunday, October 07, 2007

Albashi 2 trailer

Today I called my friend Abbas Sadiq, the intense, one-of-a-kind-dressing Hausa actor and director, to see how he is doing during this suspension of the Hausa film industry. "Babu aiki, wallahi," he told me. "kawai muna jira..."

So, one of the things that upsets me so much about the Hausa film wahalla is that thousands of people are out of work. How exactly are they supposed to live now...? And when the suspension is finally lifted will anyone have any money left to make films?

And the dancing and singing has been banned as well (See Ba Haushe Mai Ban Haushi's post on the new censorship guidelines). Wallahi, ina so in kuka da na tunani a kansa."

Not being able to do anything about it really, other than write and rant, I spend the afternoon that I was supposed to be spending writing a grant application, uploading singing and dancing numbers to You Tube....

So, here's the trailer for Abbas Sadiq's Albashi 2, the sequel to Albashi (salary) that I wrote my big paper on that I've given at so many conferences. How can they ban this wonderfully creative dancing and singing? How? Kash! Wayyo! Kaico!

3 comments:

Christian Writer said...

Dear Talatu, how body? Long time. I've been running around like a headless chicken for the couple of weeks.Good to see you're back.

Funding applications are a pain. I used to work for a charity so I know! Hope it all goes well.

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Talatu-Carmen said...

@christian writer,
hey there. the body is holding together, other than the headless running around bit, which i too have been doing. funding applications are indeed a pain. i've got to totally rewrite this one, which i knew i'd have to do... but... i'm TIRED of writing proposals... but then i'm not tired of the money from grants--so we dey try small, small.

lapa, erm.... thanks. nice blog, you have there. if only i read portuguese...