I am so a man with so many hats and one of them includes doing film reviews for Fashions Finest TV and on Saturday 6th November I was dispatched to Planet Nollywood for the film preview of 'Natasha the prodigal' which is a Nollywood film produced in the UK by M and M Entertainment in conjunction with the Nollywood College of Arts UK and featured the film debut of Vanessa Adekola who is multi talented as she also wrote the script for this film.
The Story Line...
NATASHA de PRODIGAL is a true life story of a suddenly GOOD girl turns BAD, the ever so lovely highly talented and God fearing Natasha starts to do the unspeakable, putting her Dad's reputation into tumult and every youth in the community wants to be just like NATASHA. A good girl next door goes wild into the dark part of the world with the most powerful man in London (THE DON)
The Movie which was shot in Birmingham is full of Jealously, Glamor, Rivalry, Hatred, Suspect, Drugs, Backbiting, Mischievousness, Death, Bulling and many more
The Movie teaches the viewers to SAY NO to the use of DRUGS, GUNS and unpleasant ways to acquire WEALTH and FAME, The Stars of Natasha de Prodigal come from different UK based African countries like, Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Mali, Gambia and Jamaica.
MR Mahogany's View
It was definitely over acted and the script and the story line seemed disjointed at times and for future productions they need to work on the sound quality and bring in a high quality sound man. I would also say the same about the lighting which at times was poor.
I would recommend that they stick to industry standards and make the films no more than an hour and a half or an hour forty minutes, having parts one and two is never the best thing. The talent scenes were at times very devoid of people and it would be good if they brought in lots of extras and this is easy to do as people will always give their time for free to be in a movie and it would give some substance and reality to the talent scenes.
On the plus side the overall quality of the filming was good and I am confident that with time Vanessa Adekola will become a top Nollywood actress as she was one of the few that did not over act too much and seemed a natural actress. There were funny moments in the film but I am not sure if they were funny because they were meant to be or simply because they were silly funny.
I can't say it is up to the quality of the Figurine or Aje but for a low budget film it should be commended and I look forward to more films from M and M Entertainment and will closely follow the career of Vanessa Adekola.
I will end by saying congratulations as the movie has already been nominated for the Music Movie Screen Award by the Black International Film Awards.
In my bid not to live in my house ever again I was once again out on the streets of London attending an audience 
