crummy nigerian movie: BUKA GIRL

First Thoughts

This movie was the glorification of Stockholm’s syndrome and 

The Cast and Crew

Stylish Brown as Dave
Stefania Bassey as Whitney
John Ekanem as Williams
Chioma Okafor as Ekene
Ani Amatosero as Lizzy

Written by Xander Presh
Produced by Isoken Joy Holmes
Directed by Kingsley Iweru
Soundtrack: 

Full Story

Williams is in a relationship with Whitney and he is a nag. Every day he has something to bitch about because Whitney neither cooks nor cleans or works. She just sits at home and delivers the cooch on a platter for Williams and he’s tired of that. 

Whitney also always demands money from Williams. Sometimes it’s fifty thousand, other times five hundred and he gives it to her without question. 

In the same city is a Buka girl, Ekene. She is quite popular around the area because of her delicious meals and even Williams’s friend, Dave patronises her. Since neither Whitney nor Williams can cook, Dave orders meals from Ekene’s buka and then takes the food to Williams to eat. 

One day when Williams is hungry, he calls Dave, asking him to bring food. Dave says he is busy and can’t get it for Williams but gives Williams, Ekene’s buka address instead. Williams goes to Ekene’s buka and she is very polite, welcoming him to her shop but oh…

Chooses to be rude. He calls her buka dirty and stinky. Ekene defends herself, asking if Williams is mad and he calls her mad. Then Ekene demands that he leave her shop but he doesn’t: he is acting all boze. So Ekene pours dishwater on him to leave. 

After that encounter, Williams takes it upon himself to make Ekene’s life a living hell. First, he drops his shirt for her to wash. Ekene doesn’t, she flings it back at him. 

Next, he reports her buka to health inspectors but that doesn’t do much. Then, he kidnaps her. 

This particular move shakes Ekene as she is unsure if she will make it out unharmed. Williams comes to gloat and reminds her that he will deal with her. While he is doing all of this evil to her, he is still eating the food from her “dirty buka”. Dave buys the food and Williams chows it like a hungry lion. 

After Ekene regains her freedom, she retaliates by sending some boys to deflate Williams’s tyres. Williams is unaware she did it but that doesn’t stop him from continuing with his bullying. While walking on the street, Williams almost hits her with his car. He then proceeds to threaten her, assuring her that she will never know peace. 

For his final act of evil, Williams purchases the land Ekene’s buka is on and gives her quit notice. Ekene is shocked and for the first time, swallows her pride to beg Williams. Then the asshole gloats making useless demands like, she should call herself an idiot, she must wash his clothes and her rent has been increased — all of which Ekene agrees to do. 

While this fool was busy being a satan to Ekene, he didn’t know that his house was on fire. His girlfriend, Whitney was cheating on him. In fact, she did not see herself as his girlfriend. Williams was just a maga, Whitney was using to raise money for herself and her boyfriend to travel abroad. 

Whitney’s betrayal breaks Williams’s heart and he throws her out of his house in the middle of the night without a pin since everything she has, he bought for her. Then he stops eating, always drinking and even the last time he goes to Ekene’s shop, he looks downcast. 

Dave sees Williams in a terrible state and decides to take action. He goes to Ekene’s Buka to order food and takes Ekene to Williams’s house to deliver the food. Williams asks him why he did that and Dave says that he wants Ekene to bring Williams food daily. Dave also pays for all the food deliveries Ekene makes to Williams.

Ekene continues to deliver food to Williams and even helps with chores since Williams is a dirty pig who can’t clean up after himself. In the end, Williams starts liking Ekene and confesses his feelings to her. She says she likes him too and they kiss. 

Rating out of 10

I give it 🤦🏿🤦🏿

This movie was frustrating and not because of the story. Yes, the plot was bad but the production was even worse. 

It was hard to hear the dialogue in this movie because there was this persistent LOUD soundtrack in the background. I cannot for the life of me understand why these filmmakers never rewatch their movies before uploading. 

Just do a rewatch, if you struggle to hear the dialogue, re-edit the film and then upload. 

I’m tired men.