3rd August, 2011
Actress Uche Jombo recently added another feat to her list of achievements with the premiere of the first part of her planned movie trilogy, Damage, recently at the Silverbird Galleria in Lagos.
The grand premiere that will go down in the diary of Nollywood events for a long time, had an almost endless list of stars and celebrities gracing the red carpet, some of who were Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Kate Henshaw, Funke Akindele, Stella Damasus, Iyabo Ojo, Chidi Mokeme, Yole Edochie, Nse Ekpe-Item, Basorge Tariah, Jnr., Osita Iheme, Tonto Dike, Peter of the P-Square duo, Omoni Oboli, Yul Edochie and so many others.
The thrilling movie tells the story of love and the pain of domestic violence with a style that projects the subject as one that has not been trod before in a movie.
A man (Kalu Ikeagwu) and his wife (Uche Jombo) love each other immensely, yet their day-to-day life can only be described as a ‘cat and mouseâ€
One may want to ask, with a million and one Nollywood stories that have been told about battery, what did Uche do to Damage to make it outstanding? But then, the answers are readily available. The producerâ€
And for a young film maker who is just arriving the cinema, what does she expect from movie goers? Uche has this to say: “Iâ€
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