THE BILLIONAIRE’S CLUB: NOLLYWOOD’S LEGENDARY EPIC RITUAL MOVIE

20 Years later. The movie “Billionaire’s Club” is an Epic Ritual movie that was released in the year 2003 by the movie director “Afam Okereke”. This movie had an in-depth glue that stuck  in the minds of people and could not be forgotten easily, especially those who were born by then. A lot of scenes encrypted in the minds of young children and adults who have passed from generations to generations. Till date, the movie still runs through the minds of people, and they brought it back on social media. This movie happened to be the favourite movie of lots and lots of people within the period it was released. Some people still watch it till date for nostalgia.

The movie actually talks about a secret society of men who use their occultic powers to control people and make money. Sources say this movie was taken from a real-life story. it illustrates the extend men can go just to have money. Something we mostly see in our day-to-day society. It also talks about a lady who was pushed by her parents to get married most especially to a rich man something we still see till date in reality. The lady suffered the consequences of a forced marriage. Young men are also seen in the movie struggling to be like the rich billionaire’s they see but they do not know that “All that glitters is not gold”.

The cast of this movie are Nollywood veteran actor who made it a legendary movie till date people still talk about the movie. Such actors were: “Kanyo O Kanayo”, “Pete Edochie”, “Clem Ohameze”, “Tony Umez”, “Sola Sobowale”, “Chidi Ihesie”, and many others though not all of them still act till date.

This movie is one of the movies that set a record in the Nollywood Industry and through this movie a lot of movie inspirations were developed producing other ritual movies and if one notices majority of the characters in this movie happen to always feature in such movies. Their roles in movies are mostly that of ritualists because they act it so perfectly well (Pete Edochie, Kanayo O Kanayo, Clem Ohameze, and Tony Umez). The movie as well teaches a lot to the generation of today. Those who want to make money by all means remember that “Hard work pays”, “There is no shortcut in life” and also for the fact that “All that glitters is not gold”.

Delia Nyadi