For Zomba residents, the creation of humour was supposed to be a familiar thing, what with claims that Zomba-based Chancellor College\u2014 University of Malawi\u2014 is the cradle of the arts?<\/p>\n
However, the opposite has lately been true as, among other sleeping giants, Zomba filmmakers have been screen-shy and kept their distance from movie production business.<\/p>\n
At least until the last quarter of this year when some filmmakers realised that movies can be used as a tool for entertainment as well as a weapon against the absurdities of justice.<\/p>\n
However, barely two months after Inobic Pictures director, Innocent Bisika, premiered \u2018Mlenje\u2019, a movie that lays bare the under-hand dealings of politicians on grisly activities such as the hunting down of people with albinism, there is more brewing in the Zomba pot of creativity.<\/p>\n
Just this month, aspiring filmmaker, Bright Chayachaya, started working on \u2018The Game Plan\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Game Plan\u2019 is a story that revolves around a college boy, Vitu, who is love-smitten and falls in love with two beautiful girls who, if such an obvious thing needs a mention, equally love him.<\/p>\n
But, as in real life, Vuto has to make a choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd a game plan has to be devised to get to know who loves him the most,\u201d Chayachaya said.<\/p>\n
In fact, shooting started ahead of the rains, on November 7. When The Daily Times visited Zomba on Wednesday last week, it found Chayachaya and Bisika shooting the final episodes.<\/p>\n
The Game Plan\u2019 is written by Nehemiah Jere but the screenplay has been done by Bright Chayachaya, who is also directing.<\/p>\n
However, Chaya chaya observed that, even after covering some ground, there is need to inject extra funds into the project; otherwise, the dream may fall short of reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is my sincere desire to have this dream come to reality. However the major constraint is finances. We have a small budget but, still, the money that\u2019s available cannot see us through the project,\u201d Chayachaya said.<\/p>\n
He implored well-wishers to fund this project so that it may reach its logical conclusion and make Zomba, which should be great, great.<\/p>\n
Chaya chaya is not as strange as fiction in artistic productions. Recently, he co-established a theatre group, The International Alliance for University Theatre, with Jere, who is working somewhere.<\/p>\n
This year, he was also the director for \u2018The Marriage Proposal\u2019, a renowned play written by Anton Chekhov, Russian physician, renowned short story author and playwright. Chekhov was born in 1860 and died in 1904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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