Kunle Afolayan's Premiere 'Phone Swap' Draws Closer

jess

October 16, 2013 10:38 AM

Gliding on the wings of the teeming success recorded with his previous movies; 'Irapada' & 'Figurine' multi award-winning actor and producer, Kunle Afolayan has reassured his Nigerian fans that his new movie, 'Phone Swap' would premiere in March as earlier scheduled.

The celebrated film maker recently made this known while fielding questions at the Press Screening of the movie at Ozone Cinemas in Lagos adding that the Lagos premiere has been scheduled for March 17, 2012.

Meanwhile, the Abuja and Ghana premiere of the movie have been scheduled for March 24, 2012 and April 5 respectively.

The presence of one of the lead casts; Nse Ikpe Etim added a bright dash of colour to the event as she confidently spoke about some of the challenges she encountered in the course of shooting the movie. “For instance, I am not Igbo yet I had to play the role of an Igbo-speaking lady and that took a while to get used to. It took me 6 months to learn the language just so that I could perfect the role,” she confessed.

The event had in attendance representatives from supporting corporate bodies like Globacom, Golden Effects Pictures and the official distributing company for the movie, Blue Pictures.

The movie parades the likes of Joke Silva, Chika Okpala, Wale Ojo, Nse Ikpe Etim, Lydi Forson and Ada Ameh amongst others.

Synopsis of 'Phone Swap'

Akin and Mary meet for the first time at an airport where they accidentally bump into each other and mistakenly swap their identical phones.

This leads to a destination mix up after they receive one another's text regarding a travel destination.

Consequently, Akin ends up traveling to where Mary is supposed to go and vice versa.

Neither knows about the swap until they have reached their opposite destinations and 'the phone' stops ringing (In Mary's case) and 'Won't stop ringing' (In Akins's case).

As a result of the phone swap, they agree to help carry out each other's missions, armed with the information and data on each other's phone.

But it's not as easy as they both think as new obstacles and complications rise at every turn as they both struggle to adapt to their alien environment and situation.

Mary has to walk in Akins shoes and represent him in a company meeting while Akin has to represent Mary in her the family meeting. This they do with hilarious results.

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