I Spent 6 Yr, & N52M Making Movies With Over 2,000 Cast- Popular Yoruba actor, Ebun Olaiya Reveal

Actor, Ebun Olaiya popularly called ‘Igwe’ and fondly described as ‘Mr One Year, One Film’ has disclosed exclusively that he spent six years, and N52m, working with about 2,000 actors to produce his new movie, “Mystery of Unity” “Aditu Isokan,” write BIODUN KUPOLUYI and TOFARATI IGE.
The veteran thespian who is currently on the set of Tunde Kelani’s adaptation of Femi Osofisan’s “Yeepa Solarin Nbo” to “Yeepa” revealed that though he didn’t have the menace of the deadly Boko Haram sect in mind when shooting the movie, many of the messages in the film are playing out in the terrorists’ murderous activities. According to him, “I did not produce the film because of the Boko Haram issue, but everything I put in the film is already playing out with Boko Haram, so maybe I was chosen by God to produce a film to educate the country; I thank God for the inspiration.”

Speaking further about the movie which was released on Monday, September 8th, 2014, he stated, “I’ve been making a movie since 2008, and by the grace of God, it would be released on Monday, September 8th, 2014. It is titled, “Mystery of Unity,” or “Aditu Isokan” and I spent about N52 million shooting two versions of it: one in English, and the other in Yoruba…I worked with actors like Dejumo Lewis, Yomi Obileye and about two thousand others.”

Explaining the reason why he’s called ‘Mr One Year, One Film,’ Olaiya quipped, “People do call me ‘Mr One Year, One Film,’ and it has become a tradition for me personally. I believe that a film is an intellectual property that is bigger than even the owner. If I die today, I believe that my films would be everlasting objects that would live on after me, and I don’t believe in producing too much of them. However, you should also consider the economic situation of the country before doing anything. The economy has affected all the sectors of the country, and our fans and viewers need to have money before they can buy our films, so we have to consider them too, but I promise I won’t disappoint my fans,” he enthused.