Juliana takes to the silver screen

Mar 27, 2008

GET over Kiwani, the song and brace yourself for Kiwani The Movie, starring Theatre Factory’s comedian Hannington Bugingo and renowned songbird Juliana Kanyomozi.<br>

Title: Kiwani The Movie
Stars: Juliana Kanyomozi, Hannington Bugingo
Director: Henry Ssali
Running time: 90 minutes
Premiering at: Commonwealth Resort, Munyonyo on April 12
Preview by: Nigel Nassar

GET over Kiwani, the song and brace yourself for Kiwani The Movie, starring Theatre Factory’s comedian Hannington Bugingo and renowned songbird Juliana Kanyomozi.

The movie, written and directed by Henry Ssali, a journalist, chronicles what has, over the years, been just a tale of Kampala city and its street-smart crooks, otherwise known as bafere.

Demystifying the whole concept of conmen, the urbanite movie in a way screams out at you: “Watch your back, lest you are the victim.”

It takes us into the lives of two Wilson Road fraudsters and their exploits at ripping off unsuspecting people in a series of premeditated scams.

In the hilarious mirror of a typical Ugandan (or Kampalan at that), comic Bugingo, in a leading role, plays Kaggwa, a hard-edged, street-smart conman who never runs out of schemes to rip off whoever falls for his pranks in the name of getting rich hastily.

Seemingly a genuine guy, Kaggwa convinces his victims with promises of making them rich through telegraphic transfers, getting them visas to the US and the UK, hooking them up with black-box shillings dealers and other lucrative deals.

But the promises do not seem to materialise. Meanwhile, his friend Mwesigye (Allan Tumusiime) is a mobile phone thief, but Kaggwa is trying to initiate him into his supposedly high-stakes conning.

When Mwesigye falls for Pam (Flavia Tumusiime), a beautiful university girl, and gives her a stylish phone he stole from his official girlfriend, Judith (Juliana Kanyomozi), it turns out Pam is Judith’s niece. And that Mwesigye is not from the UK like he claimed in order to win Judith’s heart.

Now behind bars, Mwesigye has to enlist the help of Kaggwa to bail him out.
And it seems like Kaggwa’s time to go to the dogs has come because the man he conned of sh4.5m in a telegraphic transfer scam is the one in charge of Mwesigye’s case. Fate must take care of its own. And this duo happens to be the one.

About 1,000 guests are set to walk the red carpet when the movie premieres at the Commonwealth Resort, Munyonyo on April 12, 2008.

A ticket for the premiere goes for sh30,000. Tickets will be on sale at Nando’s on Kampala Road, beginning Monday. There will be no tickets sold at the venue since the function is entirely formal.

The movie is also set to screen at Cineplex Cinema and in all universities before going to Jinja and Mbale in May, Masaka, Mbarara and Fort Portal in June, Gulu and Lira in July and Arua in August.
Ssali says the movie will also show outside Uganda.

“It has been a year of hard work and sacrifice, but we are happy that the film is finally ready.

The public has been asking what was taking us so long to release the movie, but I can say that when they watch the movie, they will appreciate why it has taken us this long,” says Ssali.

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