Peter Fatomilola, Pete Edochie, Nollywood ‘herbalists’ go head-to-head in Macaroni’s ‘The Avengers of Nollywood’

The saying, ‘The place your energy ends, one other’s begins,’ involves life in Mr comic Mr Macaroni’s newest skit, ‘The Avenger of Nollywood’, as common actors recognized for taking part in herbalists interact in a dramatic conflict.

The skit, launched on Saturday, was the second a part of ‘An Ancestor Needs to Marry My Daughter’, by which veteran actor Pete Edochie performed an elder looking for to marry Mr Macaroni’s fictional daughter, Motunde.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Macaroni’s rejection of the 77-year-old’s proposal on the grounds of age and his cheeky reference to him as an ancestor led to Edochie disappearing with Motunde.

After years of looking for his daughter’s whereabouts, Mr Macaroni sought the assistance of herbalists to wage a non secular battle towards the long-lasting actor, famend for his debut function in ‘Issues Fall Aside’ 37 years in the past.

The herbalists he approached have been well-known for portraying such roles in movies.

The star-studded skit additionally featured veteran actors, together with Chiwetalu Agu, Peter Fatomilola, Fatai Lalude, Adewale Alebiosu, Tajudeen ‘Abija’ Oyewole, Emeka Ani, and Harry Anyanwu, who showcased their supernatural powers.

Battle of herbalists

The skit opens with Mr Macaroni, Ajayi Korede (often called Otunba in skits), and Alebiosu coming into by Edochie’s gate to confront him and take away Motunde, who’s selecting beans.

Alebiosu confronts Edochie, who is set to rescue Motunde however meets resistance. Edochie, who sees Alebiosu as inferior to him in energy, calls Anyanwu and supernaturally empowers Alebiosu.

When Alebiosu realises he isn’t sturdy sufficient to overpower Anyanwu, he summons Lalude. Lalude seems and overpowers Anyanwu, prompting Edochie to summon Ani, who then overpowers Lalude.

Lalude calls on Abija, who defeats Ani, however Edochie counters by summoning Agu, who in the end overpowers Abija.

Agu orders Mr Macaroni to maintain sweeping till he returns after which disappears, whereas Edochie makes use of supernatural powers on Otunba, forcing him to maintain waving.

With Mr Macaroni and Otunba underneath a non secular spell, Lalude, Abija, and Alebiosu name for a superior herbalist—Fatomilola.

The three herbalists anticipate Fatomilola to hitch them in wielding non secular powers and breaking the spell over Macaroni and Otunba, however their expectations are unmet.

Fatomilola arrives, exchanges pleasantries with Edochie as a fellow occultist, and in the end brokers peace.

He appeals to Edochie, who casts out the spells he positioned on Motunde, Mr Macaroni, and Otunba. Motunde regains her senses and follows her father dwelling.

The skit supplied a lighthearted and entertaining tribute to Nollywood’s iconic actors.

The veterans

Fatomilola is a Nigerian dramatist, poet, Ifa priest, and prolific playwright.

In 1967, he joined the Olokun Theatre Group underneath the tutelage of the late Professor Ola Rotimi, a famend dramatist and playwright on the College of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo College.

He was the primary actor to play ‘Papa Ajasco’ the lead function in a comedy movie produced by Wale Adenuga. He has additionally featured in a number of notable Nigerian movies, together with ‘Sango’, a 1997 epic African movie produced by Obafemi Lasode and scripted by Wale Ogunyemi.

All through his profession, he has portrayed the function of a priest in quite a few Yoruba movies. Some movies he has starred in embrace Orisa Aiye, Keji, Igbale, Strangers, Love Fort, King Invincible, Ebute, and Irapada.

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In the meantime, Edochie, broadly thought to be one among Africa’s most gifted actors, has appeared in a whole bunch of award-winning motion pictures and stage performs regionally and internationally.

He started his profession as a seasoned administrator and broadcaster with the Nigerian Tv Authority (NTA), Enugu station, earlier than rising to prominence within the Eighties when he performed the lead function of Okonkwo in an NTA adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s bestselling novel, ‘Issues Fall Aside.’

He obtained his main schooling at Saint Patrick’s and Saint James Main Faculties in Zaria, Kaduna State, earlier than attending Saint John’s Secondary College, Kaduna.

He additionally attended programs overseas, together with research on the College of Journalism and Tv in England.

Watch the skit under.