By David Kabiyesi
The demand for Yoruba blockbuster movie, Jagun Jagun is spreading like wildfire. But its acceptance as one the best Yoruba movie of the year did not come cheap but with a huge price.
Shedding more light on the financial cost of the film, producer Femi Adebayo took to his verified Instagram account to narrate his experience. The son of a veteran actor Adebayo Salamir evealed that he had to sell off some of hismulti-million naira properties to ensure the film becomes a reality.
“Jagun Jagun is a multi-billion naira project and I can’t say the exact amount I spent on shooting it.
I used the proceeds of Agbeshinkole to produce Jagun Jagun. I was working on not getting funded by finance houses and individuals. At a point, I was out of finance and because I had faith that the project would work, I sold my properties.”
“We built from the scratch the warrior school. We were faced with the challenge of purchasing that land, we wanted to own the land.
And at a point, we had an agreement and paid for it, but the children of the owner of the land changed their minds about the sale. We built the school halfway when the children who came from Lagos told us to stop.
They were ready to destroy all that we built and that held us up for almost a week, going to the police station and Oba appealing to them and we were told to only shoot there and not buy it.” he said
