A Nollywood Veteran and Film Director, Mr Emeka Ossai has said that most veterans in the industry were off the screen because movies produced by the so-called “New Nollywood actors” lacked originality.
Ossai said this when members of the Creative Industry Group (CIG) visited the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Lagos Office, that chunk of the movies lacked focus.
Ossai said that the Nollywood industry was pulled out of the woods by the efforts of the veterans and ensured it remained afloat.
“The veterans started the path called: Nollywood some years back and were able to colonize Africa and the diaspora to love our contents and to love Nigeria.
“To sustain Nollywood, the kind of story we tell should be original and indigenous.
“Some people have infiltrated the industry with colonial mentality of doing business; they want to adulterate our culture by bringing in some content outside our cultural identity.
“People acting and mimicking the whites when they are blacks by speaking through their nostrils and changing the trajectory from contemporary Africa stories should rethink,” he said.
Ossai argued that there had been some unwritten values in the Nollywood industry, which had helped it grown and must be protected.