All Hausa film Fans convo...

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[Anonymous]

Iyye! Kan mage ya waye. Like Dante said, we don't seem to appreciate anything local. I think it is naive to say hausa films "na koyar da wasu tarbiyyu na banza". In ba ku sani ba, bari in gaya muku tarbiyar mu ta dade da lalacewa. Tun kafin a fara fim din hausa tarbiyyar mutanen najeriya, bama na hausawa kawai ba, ya fara baci. Skekaru aru aru da suka shude kuna kallon finafinan turawa na batsa da internet da wake-waken su na tsiraici, baku ce tarbiyyar yaranmu zai baci ba sai yanzu da naku suka fara. Don't deceive yourself. Most of you that condemn hausa films as teaching bad morals have either satelite dishes at home or access to and watch those "barbaric" semi-pornograhic shows called American films, filled with western propaganda. Or, as our "wayayyun" ladies prefer, watch Usher, Snoop doggy etc. Yet you have the temerity to castigate our "proudly made local films".

Ni dai wallahi, 'yan fim din hausa sun yi rawar gani. I have watched quite a few and I loved them. Most of you have not bothered to watch even a single one, yet you sit comfortably and condemn them. What you can't deny them is that they are full of lessons with respect to the happenings in our society. They are not perfect and need polishing but  I say KUDOS TO THEM!!!

[Anonymous]

I like hausa movies, but i dont like all the wake-wake they do in films.

Yeah it used to be a good thing somedays back..... but still, they are trying their best.

What do you think about hausa films/movies, are they improving or not?


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Zan ari bakin shi in ci mas albasa.  :lol:  The hausa ifilms are improving, especially with regards to quality of production, visual effects etc, if you get my drift. The only drawback I noticed is the proliferation of producers, thereby increasing the chances/numbers of films with uninteresting and/or repetition of story lines. But you get quite good ones with excellent themes.

[Fateez]

Iyye! Kan mage ya waye. Like Dante said, we don't seem to appreciate anything local. I think it is naive to say hausa films "na koyar da wasu tarbiyyu na banza". In ba ku sani ba, bari in gaya muku tarbiyar mu ta dade da lalacewa. Tun kafin a fara fim din hausa tarbiyyar mutanen najeriya, bama na hausawa kawai ba, ya fara baci. Skekaru aru aru da suka shude kuna kallon finafinan turawa na batsa da internet da wake-waken su na tsiraici, baku ce tarbiyyar yaranmu zai baci ba sai yanzu da naku suka fara. Don't deceive yourself. Most of you that condemn hausa films as teaching bad morals have either satelite dishes at home or access to and watch those "barbaric" semi-pornograhic shows called American films, filled with western propaganda. Or, as our "wayayyun" ladies prefer, watch Usher, Snoop doggy etc. Yet you have the temerity to castigate our "proudly made local films".

Ni dai wallahi, 'yan fim din hausa sun yi rawar gani. I have watched quite a few and I loved them. Most of you have not bothered to watch even a single one, yet you sit comfortably and condemn them. What you can't deny them is that they are full of lessons with respect to the happenings in our society. They are not perfect and need polishing but  I say KUDOS TO THEM!!!

I'm with u! i really luv da stories. Even though some people call me

a "local". {na their business} wallahi i dont mind watching hausa films.

and if i was a parent, i'd prefer my child to watch hausa movies rather

than some western movies. Another benefit is these hausa movies

teaches da viewers karin magana and useful proverbs. If there is a

problem, then it shud be da dancing. i dont mind them having a

soundtrack, amma dancing and running through flowers and climbing

mountains and tsalle-tsalle and wuntsulawa, dat is so Bollywood! i think if

these scenes r eliminated, da movies wud be much better and da movie

wud be more religiously acceptable. apart from dat and minor

adjustments in quality, i see nothing wrong with these movies.

[Dante]

Well, fateez you are honestly telling the truth... I myself have learnt alot of proverbs (karin magana) from hausa movies.

[jummai hadi]

Sokoto to ban songs, dances in films

Plans are on top gear by the Sokoto state government to ban the use of songs and dances in films produced in the state.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youths, Sports and Culture, Alhaji Bello Wamakko, said this in Sokoto.

The occasion was the maiden ``Sokoto films award, `` sponsored by a Sokoto-based Algerian CD and video company that the move was to ensure that all films, produced in the state, conformed with the Sharia.

He reiterated the state government's concern over dances and songs in most Hausa films in the country, saying dances and songs were against the rule of Sharia.

``We, therefore, want such indigenous films to reflect on the cultures, religions and norms of the people,'' he stressed.

``We should desist from borrowing any hazardous foreign culture. We should only copy the good ones,'' he added.

Wamakko pointed out that many committees had been set up to ensure that film producers operated within the Islamic legal system.

Many top ranking state and federal officials, notable media practitioners and film producers, actors and actresses were honoured at the event.

Some of them included Alhaji Bello Abubakar, the Sokoto zonal Manager of NTA, Alhaji Ibrahim Isa, the General Manager, Rima Radio and the General Manager, Rima Television, Alhaji Abu Shekara

[Anonymous]

Banning songs won't be the ultimate solution they assumed it to be. These film producers/actors/actresses are business people and for them, like all business men, the overriding factor in any venture is the returns (profit). Sour as it taste to some, the fact is that these songs are what sell the films! Why? Because the market for these films largely consist of young people (mostly women) who love these songs and consider them the in-thing now. A case in point is how these songs revolutionalize the advertisements in our radio stations. This has economic importance, in case those dudes don't know. Ban these songs and other features and the industry would certainly be moribund! Is the government prepared to cater for the thousands who are presently gainfully employed in the industry? The only person who made any sensible statement regarding this issue is governor Ibrahim Shekarau who allegedly said "karatun fim yafi karatun zaman banza!".

All those screaming for one surgery or the other in hausa films do not even constitute 4% of of the patronizers of the films. Most of them are just "modern day" critics who revel in arm-chair criticisms. For God's sake if you don't like the songs fast-forward them, and if you don't even watch them, then what's your problem? What beats is how suddenly hausa film bashing is the vogue now :?  If our governments are seriuos about social malaise there are more important issues to confront like prostitution, begging, unemployment, hooliganism etc etc etc! Other societies would be proud of such things. But no, in our case, we have to "kill" it! Gyara yana da kyau amma ayi a hankali dai!!!

[Anonymous]

I'm with u! i really luv da stories. Even though some people call me

a "local". {na their business} wallahi i dont mind watching hausa films.

and if i was a parent, i'd prefer my child to watch hausa movies rather

than some western movies. Another benefit is these hausa movies

teaches da viewers karin magana and useful proverbs. If there is a

problem, then it shud be da dancing. i dont mind them having a

soundtrack, amma dancing and running through flowers and climbing

mountains and tsalle-tsalle and wuntsulawa, dat is so Bollywood! i think if

these scenes r eliminated, da movies wud be much better and da movie

wud be more religiously acceptable. apart from dat and minor

adjustments in quality, i see nothing wrong with these movies.

Yeah, Fateez. People would call you local. The laughable thing is that they are the local ones if they believe watching indigenous films is local.

[Anonymous]

I'm with u! i really luv da stories. Even though some people call me

a "local". {na their business} wallahi i dont mind watching hausa films.

and if i was a parent, i'd prefer my child to watch hausa movies rather

than some western movies. Another benefit is these hausa movies

teaches da viewers karin magana and useful proverbs. If there is a

problem, then it shud be da dancing. i dont mind them having a

soundtrack, amma dancing and running through flowers and climbing

mountains and tsalle-tsalle and wuntsulawa, dat is so Bollywood! i think if

these scenes r eliminated, da movies wud be much better and da movie

wud be more religiously acceptable. apart from dat and minor

adjustments in quality, i see nothing wrong with these movies.

Kin san ci gaban mai haka rigiya! Wai in kana kallon fim din hausa sai a ce kai local ne. Wannan abu na bani mamaki. Mai ce maka local bai san shine jahili ba in har yana takama cewa fina-finan turawa da kade-kaden su  sune abin kallo da ji. You know one funny thing? That person accusing hausa film producers of injecting foreign culture (a la dancing/singing) is probably wearing T-Shirt and Jeans! Or he/she can't even properly express him/herself without making recourse to english language. Yet he would sit down and talk about culture. Daddawa gaya manda baki!

Fateezz, with the advent of globalization/civilization, there comes the gradual fusion of traditions and cultures. You can't run away from borrowing one or two things from other cultures. Am not defending these features in hausa films, but somehow I don't really believe you can have a "pure" hausa film, devoid of all elements of foreign cultures per se. This is even evident in our everyday life; the way we eat, dress and behave are all influenced one way or the other by other cultures be the Arabic, American, Asian etc.

[gogannaka]

Banning songs won't be the ultimate solution they assumed it to be. These film producers/actors/actresses are business people and for them, like all business men, the overriding factor in any venture is the returns (profit). Sour as it taste to some, the fact is that these songs are what sell the films! Why? Because the market for these films largely consist of young people (mostly women) who love these songs and consider them the in-thing now. A case in point is how these songs revolutionalize the advertisements in our radio stations. This has economic importance, in case those dudes don't know. Ban these songs and other features and the industry would certainly be moribund! Is the government prepared to cater for the thousands who are presently gainfully employed in the industry? The only person who made any sensible statement regarding this issue is governor Ibrahim Shekarau who allegedly said "karatun fim yafi karatun zaman banza!".

All those screaming for one surgery or the other in hausa films do not even constitute 4% of of the patronizers of the films. Most of them are just "modern day" critics who revel in arm-chair criticisms. For God's sake if you don't like the songs fast-forward them, and if you don't even watch them, then what's your problem? What beats is how suddenly hausa film bashing is the vogue now :?  If our governments are seriuos about social malaise there are more important issues to confront like prostitution, begging, unemployment, hooliganism etc etc etc! Other societies would be proud of such things. But no, in our case, we have to "kill" it! Gyara yana da kyau amma ayi a hankali dai!!!

A perfect explanation.
God bless you.

[bakangizo]

Banning songs won't be the ultimate solution they assumed it to be. These film producers/actors/actresses are business people and for them, like all business men, the overriding factor in any venture is the returns (profit). Sour as it taste to some, the fact is that these songs are what sell the films! Why? Because the market for these films largely consist of young people (mostly women) who love these songs and consider them the in-thing now. A case in point is how these songs revolutionalize the advertisements in our radio stations. This has economic importance, in case those dudes don't know. Ban these songs and other features and the industry would certainly be moribund! Is the government prepared to cater for the thousands who are presently gainfully employed in the industry? The only person who made any sensible statement regarding this issue is governor Ibrahim Shekarau who allegedly said "karatun fim yafi karatun zaman banza!".

All those screaming for one surgery or the other in hausa films do not even constitute 4% of of the patronizers of the films. Most of them are just "modern day" critics who revel in arm-chair criticisms. For God's sake if you don't like the songs fast-forward them, and if you don't even watch them, then what's your problem? What beats is how suddenly hausa film bashing is the vogue now :?  If our governments are seriuos about social malaise there are more important issues to confront like prostitution, begging, unemployment, hooliganism etc etc etc! Other societies would be proud of such things. But no, in our case, we have to "kill" it! Gyara yana da kyau amma ayi a hankali dai!!!

A perfect explanation.
God bless you.

Thank. I have finally registered (or rather re-registered) :)

[gogannaka]

U are welcome.U should note that the issue of hausa films had caused a lot of trouble in kanoonline.Most of the members strong critics of the hausa film industry.
Nevertheless,your ideas on how to improve the hausa film industry will highly be appreciated,and im sure will help the bashed industry.

[bakangizo]

U are welcome.U should note that the issue of hausa films had caused a lot of trouble in kanoonline.Most of the members strong critics of the hausa film industry.
Nevertheless,your ideas on how to improve the hausa film industry will highly be appreciated,and im sure will help the bashed industry.

Thanks. Yeah, I've noticed the hostility against the industry here. But I would like to relate it to the "bandwagon effect" we Nigerians are known for! Simply that everyone wants to join in the criticism 'cos it is what everyone is doing :lol:  As I pointed out earlier most of these people haven't a clue about the films 'cos they don't even watch them.

As regards how to improve the industry, I think the best bet is encouragement from the government and not open hostility. You know the carrot and stick approach. Kano state government had organized a yearly award for the industry, rewarding the films that "conform" to acceptable principles. I think that's a step in the right direction. Besides, if the government feels strongly about the film industry, it can be a stakeholder by either financing the "right" films or subsidizing the production costs. Otherwise it is unfair to force these producers into producing what the government feels are the right type of films, and which would most likely not sell. They are in business and not charity.

[Anonymous]

I'm with u! i really luv da stories. Even though some people call me

a "local". {na their business} wallahi i dont mind watching hausa films.

and if i was a parent, i'd prefer my child to watch hausa movies rather

than some western movies. Another benefit is these hausa movies

teaches da viewers karin magana and useful proverbs. If there is a

problem, then it shud be da dancing. i dont mind them having a

soundtrack, amma dancing and running through flowers and climbing

mountains and tsalle-tsalle and wuntsulawa, dat is so Bollywood! i think if

these scenes r eliminated, da movies wud be much better and da movie

wud be more religiously acceptable. apart from dat and minor

adjustments in quality, i see nothing wrong with these movies.

Kin san ci gaban mai haka rigiya! Wai in kana kallon fim din hausa sai a ce kai local ne. Wannan abu na bani mamaki. Mai ce maka local bai san shine jahili ba in har yana takama cewa fina-finan turawa da kade-kaden su  sune abin kallo da ji. You know one funny thing? That person accusing hausa film producers of injecting foreign culture (a la dancing/singing) is probably wearing T-Shirt and Jeans! Or he/she can't even properly express him/herself without making recourse to english language. Yet he would sit down and talk about culture. Daddawa gaya manda baki!

Fateezz, with the advent of globalization/civilization, there comes the gradual fusion of traditions and cultures. You can't run away from borrowing one or two things from other cultures. Am not defending these features in hausa films, but somehow I don't really believe you can have a "pure" hausa film, devoid of all elements of foreign cultures per se. This is even evident in our everyday life; the way we eat, dress and behave are all influenced one way or the other by other cultures be the Arabic, American, Asian etc.

Yeah i agree with inter cultural fusion and as u put it "it's oky to borrow

1 or 2 thingz" but these days what they add r somehow beyond "1

or 2 things". The songs sound really nice but they are not always very

original. U see in after watching one movie i think it's Khusufi, i went to an

indian place and they were playing Bollywood soundtracks i tell u da song

was exactly da same! same tune, same beat, same instrument, same

everything, only difference was da lyrics. And another one is Nelly & Kelly

Dilemma, also da same beat and da same "gangster dressing" do rags,

dog chains etc etc dat is so not hausa! Infact, dat one don pass be

careful! if we want to have songs and dancing scenes, fine, be more

creative and original.

[Fateez]

By da way, dat waz me