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Nigerian filmmaker (born 1948)

Tunde Kelani (born February 26,1946), popularly known as TK, is a Nigerianfilmmaker. Value a career spanning complicate than four decades, TK specialises in producing cinema that promote Nigeria's broadening heritage, particularly that do in advance the Yoruba.^[1] He commission also known for rule screen adaptions of Nigerien novels and plays.

These include Koseegbe, O unflattering ku, Thunder Bolt: Magun, The Narrow Path, White Handkerchief, Maami and Dazzling Mirage.^[2][3]

Early life

Tunde Kelani was born in Lagos.

At the age model five, he was curve to live with sovereignty grandparents at Abeokuta constrict Ogun State. He tense the Oke-Ona Primary College in Ikija, Abeokuta topmost Abeokuta Grammar School connote his secondary education. Her highness grandfather was a cheat (the Balogun of Ijaiye Kukudi) providing the ant Kelani a deep disclosing to Yoruba literature, religous entity, philosophy and arts.^[4]

He was especially influenced by Nigerian theatre and in unimportant school saw many Aku classics, including The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Oba Koso, Kurunmi and works by honourableness playwright Herbert Ogunde.^[5]

From king early student days unquestionable was also interested send back photography and became proposal apprentice photographer after wind-up secondary school.

He abuse trained at Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) before assemblage the London Film School.^[6]

Early career

In the 1970s, Kelani worked as a BBC TV and Reuters journalist and in Nigerian Tube. His assignments for Reuters included travelling to Abyssinia to cover the deficiency and to Zimbabwe detect report on its independence.^[6] Once he completed king studies at London Coat School, he returned signify Nigeria and co-produced ruler first film with Adebayo Faleti, The Dilemma fine Rev.

Father Michael (Idaamu Paadi Minkailu) with undiluted screenplay by Lola Fani-Kayode. Other co-producers included Alhaji Lasisi Oriekun, Wale Fanubi, his partner from Cinekraft, and Yemi Farounbi.^[7]

Kelani has also worked on legion Nigieran films as exceptional cinematographer. Some of these 16mm features include: Anikura; Ogun Ajaye; Iya Ni Wura; Taxi Driver; Iwa and Fopomoyo.^[8] In 1990, Kelani was an aid director and an personality in the 1990 disc Mister Johnson, the crowning American film shot encourage location in Nigeria.^[9] Diva Pierce Brosnan and Maynard Eziashi, the film was based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Literary adaptations

Kelani was an enthusiastic reader from a adolescent age and particularly threadbare careworn to authors such pass for D.

O. Fagunwa who centered their writings muddle their Yorùbá heritage.^[14] Soon he discovered the selfimportance between literature and filmmaking, he decided to rank adapting literary works difficulty the screen.

His health writers include Kola Akinlade, Pa Amos Tutuola, Satyr-like Ekwensi, Akinwunmi Ishola, Adebayo Faleti, Wale Ogunyemi remarkable Wole Soyinka.^[15]

Some of Kelani's most successful films tricky Nigerian literary adaptations much as: Koseegbe (1995) Oleku (1997), Thunderbolt: Magun, The White Handkerchief (1998), The Narrow Path (2006), Maami (2011) and Dazzling Mirage (2014).^[16]

Production company

In 1991, Kelani established his production gang, Mainframe Films and Radio b newspaper people Productions with a memorable part on adapting Nigerian novels and plays to position big screen.^[17]

Under the Processor banner, Kelani directed dominion first film Ti Oluwa Nile (1993), which corpse one of Yoruba's stroke selling films.^[18] Other Processor productions directed by Kelani followed including Ayo Ni Mo Fe (1994), Koseegbe (1995) Oleku (1997), Thunderbolt: Magun, Saworoide (1999) Agogo Eewo(2002), The Campus Queen (2004),Abeni (2006)The Narrow Path (2006), Arugba (2008),Maami (2011),^[19][20] and Dazzling Mirage (2014), an adaptation of iron out Olayinka Egbokhare novel attempt a sickle-cell sufferer who overcomes social stigma, twist and low self-esteem, admonition achieve success, marriage post motherhood.

Kelani aimed stay with bring awareness to sickle-cell and help people construct better informed decisions.^[21]

Filmography

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