Lion Heart Movie on NETFLIX

Besides making history as the first Nigerian movie to be acquired by NETFLIX, Genevieve Nnaji’s Lion Heart has given Nollywood a new face by its theme of “Business ownership tussle”, depicted through merger and acquisition.  

If I’m not mistaken, Genevieve Nnaji directed movie, Lion Heart is the first Nollywood movie to feature transport business as a respectable and worthy to be celebrated and protected business. Some of the Nollywood movies that I happen to have watched, that featured transport business only featured it as a business of last resort or a business of the nobodys. 

Most movies rather feature and celebrate professions and businesses like medical, legal, engineering, oil and gas, manufacturing, production, etc, but not transportation, because it is not worth celebrating; but Genevieve’s Lion Heart has brought it to limelight, letting us know that transport business is also a noble venture.

Again, Lion Heart movie of Genevieve Nnaji and Co came with a different message, which is ‘managing a transport business’ and ‘dealing with business competitions’, as compared to most Nollywood movies that send across messages of crime, cultism, witchcraft, love and vengeance.

What thrilled me in the movie, Lion Heart is that Adaeze (Genevieve Nnaji) being a woman, was the one who greatly desired to run her father’s transport business and longed to take over from her father. She showed so much passion to keep their transport business alive – a business considered tough, and ought to be managed by a red eyed man, because majority of its workforce are wild.

More so, I enjoyed the code switching and code mixing in Lion Heart movie. It was wrapped up in English and Igbo languages, including little of Hausa. 

Lion Heart movie will not be celebrated without other wonderful castes like Pete Edochie, Nkem Owoh, Ngozi Ezeonu, Onyeka Onwenu, Kanayo O. kanayo, Kalu Ikeagwu, Chika Okpala, Peter Okoye, etc. When Nkem Owoh, who played the role of Adaeze’s uncle in’ Lion Heart’ suddenly appeared in the movie, I thought he has come to play a fast one on Adaeze and her father, but I was wrong; he was good this time.

The featuring of one of the biggest transport company in Nigeria, Peace Mass Transit (PMT) also made Lion Heart movie unique. One of the scenes of Lion Heart movie took place in a Peace Mass Transit Park, Holy Ghost Round about, Enugu, and it made the movie look so real. Another unique message of the movie, Lion Heart, which is unity in diversity, is what I will not forget in a hurry.

Ideal Olive congratulates Genevieve Nnaji and her team; Pete Edochie, Nkem Owoh, Ngozi Ezeonu, Onyeka Onwenu, Kanayo O. Kanayo, Kalu Ikeagwu, Chika Okpala, Peter Okoye, etc. for a job well done. Genevieve’s lion heart has indeed taken Nollywood to the international playground through NETFLIX.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi