UCHE JOMBO SCORES HIGH WITH DAMAGE

UCHE JOMBO SCORES HIGH WITH ‘DAMAGE’

Star actress Uche Jombo recently added another feat to her list of achievements with the premiere of the first part of her planned movie trilogy ‘Damage’ on July 31, 2011at the Silverbird Galeria in Lagos.

The grand premiere that will go down in the diary of Nollywood events for a long time had an almost endless list of stars and celebrities graced the red carpet, some of whom are; Omotola Jalade, kate Henshaw, Funke Akindele, Stella Damasus, Iyabo Ojo, Chidi Mokeme, Yole Edochie, Nse Ekpe-Item, Basorge Tariah Jnr, Osita Iheme, Tonto Dike, Peter of the Psquare duo, Omoni Oboli, Yul Edochie and so many others.

The thrilling movie ‘Damage’, tells the story of love and the pain of domestic violence with a style that projects the subject as one that has not been threaded before in a movie. A man (Kalu Ikeagwu) and his wife (Uche Jombo) love each other immensely yet their day to day life can only be described as a ‘cat and mouse’ situation. They fight violently almost on a daily basis and one of the long run effects of their fights is the psychological torture their children had to go through.
One may want to ask, with a million and one Nollywood stories that have been told about battery what did Uche do to Damage to make it outstanding? But then, the answers are readily available. The producers decision to look at domestic violence from both the male and female perspective in the family, the timely comic relief’s in the movie, timely and precise shots, great acting and directing as well as out of the box casting all added to Uche’s resolve to tell her story of battery in a different way.

For a young filmmaker who is just arriving the cinema what does she expect from movie goers, Uche Jombo has this to say, “I’m coming to the cinema with the first in a series of three movies and I have no fears at all about the success of the movies in the cinema. I believe the true value of any entertainment product lies in its ability to educate, entertain and inform, all of this can be gotten from ‘Damage’. I believe we treated issues that concern us all so I expect a good response and I am certain that this is a risk well taken”.

Featuring Nollywood finest, Uche Jombo herself, Kalu Ikeagwu, Tonto Dikeh, Basorge Tariah Jr and others, ‘Damage’ will start showing in cinemas across the nation from August 5, 2011.