Cinema Africa 24/25 - Interview with "Dilli Dark"' main actor Samuel Robinson
Abstract
- Abstract
- Samuel Abiola Robinson was our guest for the November edition of the Cinema Africa film festival 2024/25. The Nigerian actor stars in the movie "Dilli Dark" that was presented on 11.11.2024 in Cineplex Bayreuth. Before Robinson was present for the screening and subsequent discussion, he sat with the festival's organiser Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler for an interview talking about his career, life in New Delhi and forthcoming projects.
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- Title
- Cinema Africa 24/25 - Interview with "Dilli Dark"' main actor Samuel Robinson
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Cinema Africa 2024/25
- Date
- November 21, 2024
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- yeah hello Samuel nice to have you with us here in B the University of b thank you welcome thank you very much it's a pleasure to be here it's really great occasion because there we we never had actually an Indian film in our program for the African Cinema so this will be kind of a premere but with a Nigerian actor so we are really very curious to learn more about your careers what how how did you how did you come to be in Indian films long story I guess I'll try to keep it uh brief uh yeah uh thank you very much for the question um so I I started working as an actor in my country uh Nigeria um and there I had um been fortunate enough to work on some uh some of the top projects in the country uh and in Africa as well uh I did a project for Disney called desperate houses Africa um and there was a project by a big uh production called MTV base which did a show called trigger which I was a part of so I had already um built up a little bit of a career in in Nigeria and so uh the film the first film I did the first Indian film I did Sudani from Nigeria uh they were when they were casting for it they were looking for uh a Nigerian actor within a certain age bracket who had certain features and looks um and they had had auditions and they were not finding what they wanted so um the director this is what he told me said he just Googled young Nigerian actors and saw a pictures of me there and then he sent that picture out to agents in the country to ask them to contact me that's how they reached out to me it was just supposed to be a very small film it was made with a very limited uh budget I mean by by Indian standards very limited small budget but the film ended up being a very uh very good success for them made a lot of money got a lot of critical claim as well it won a national award two national award the name of the film was Sudani from Nigeria um so it was a a malum film uh in a it's a regional very small Regional language uh in Kerala which is a state in in India uh… Read the full text about 5,173 words
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