Bollywood
is regarded as one of the largest movie makers in the world and its
influence permeates the entire Asian world. For many years before the
advent of Nollywood, the movie world in Nigeria was overshadowed by the
dominance of the dance and song-filled Indian movies. However, an
evangelical or gospel movie segment of Bollywood is never known the way
we have the gospel side of Nollywood.
Interestingly, however, it
can be confidently said this year that Nollywood have walked into
Bollywood through the gospel angle. The Mount Zion Film Productions
probably becomes the first Nigerian movie-makers to penetrate Bollywood
with a gospel movie shot in New Delhi by a modest Nigerian crew, and
starred entirely by Indian Christians. This has become a landmark
project.
According to Evang. Mike Bamiloye, President of Mount
Zion Film Productions, they were invited to an annual church conference
in New Delhi in 2013, during which they caught the divine revelation
from God about reaching the people of the land with an evangelical movie
that would address the spiritual problems of the people.
Following
this divine idea, a relevant inspiring script was written in Nigeria
and sent to our partners in New Delhi for review and to fit into the
relevant spiritual and social backgrounds of the people. The script was
translated by Ashima Batra, a member of an India ministry, Shiloh Global
Ministries Inc., who produced the movie. A team of script editors
comprising Indian linguists later worked on the script to avoid
religious or spiritual controversies. Then, some sessions of auditions
were held for Christians and church members who came from different
churches within the city of New Delhi.
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