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How Yemi My Lover made me famous, broke Yemi Ayebo
Veteran filmmaker and actor Yemi Ayebo has bravely shared the challenges he faced after releasing his breakout film ‘Yemi My Lover’.
Released in 1993, the film, which introduced a Bollywood-style flair to Nollywood, tells the story of Yemi, a young man who falls in love with a beautiful woman named Moji, a mystical water spirit lineage member.
Speaking in an interview with content creator Akin ‘Mrlilgaga’ Abolade, posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Ayebo revealed that despite the film’s success, it left him financially devastated.
He reflected on the movie’s toll on him: “After Yemi My Lover, I produced several other films—almost seventeen, but it surpassed them all. I didn’t profit from that film because it was created during the analogue era. There was no social media then, so I didn’t have the opportunity to promote it widely. The awareness was low, and I was struggling, doing the little I could to promote it. As a result, the movie was pirated, and the marketers were not pleased with me because I handled the marketing myself. The marketers waged war against me, which marked the beginning of my problems with them.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/794425-how-yemi-my-lover-made-me-famous-broke-yemi-ayebo.html
