Tunde Kelani begins Ayinla Omowura's biopic film – The Nation Newspaper

By Olaitan Ganiu

FORTY years after the dying of Apala style of music icon Ayinla Omowura, ace filmmaker Tunde Kelani has begun taking pictures a biopic on the late musician.

The person behind Mainframe movies just lately gave a touch on the challenge, when he took to his Instagram web page to disclose the concept behind the idea.

Kelani mentioned the ideation for the biopic refused to die regardless of the consequences of COVID-19 on the world.

“The ideation or obsession which supplies delivery to this story lasted greater than three years and refused to die regardless of twists and turns together with the covid-19 pandemic,” he famous.

Persevering with, the storyteller mentioned, “This is a vital however uncommon movie by many requirements.”

Already, the filming for Omowura’s biopic has kicked off with the crew, gear, and solid already within the Abeokuta location base.

Omowura churned out a number of tracks to evangelise in opposition to unhealthy management, fornication, and different unwell acts in society.

The late Apala singer was born in 1933 in Itoko, Abeokuta, Ogun state. He was stabbed to dying throughout a brawl in his hometown in 1980.