Dancehall's Jamaican singer Sizzla Kalonji will make your film debut in comedy “Jafaican”, A film starring the British-Australian singer and actor Peter Andre that has unleashed controversy even before its premiere.
The interpreter of “Praise Ye Jah” will have a secondary role in the plot, in which the protagonist, Magpie (Peter Andre), A London London of Little Mounted, It embarks on a high -risk scam to cover an invoice of 35.000 pounds from the nursing home of his grandmother.
The plan consists of impersonate a well -known gangster and steal 3 millions of pounds, While receiving an intensive course of 21 days to immerse yourself in the Jamaican culture and make their way between London and Jamaica.
Opinions found about the film
After the trailer was released in mid -April, The tape has had very divided opinions, with accusations of being a moche of Jamaica's culture or even being a “black face” modern, How to read in some of the opinions of the film advance.
“Peter Andre starring a movie called Jafaican, where he pretends to be Jamaicin and use a wig with dreadlocks, It is not something I hoped to see in the year of Our Lord 2025, But here we are ...”, It was one of the opinions.
But nevertheless, others were less subtle: One said: “Peter, With all due respect, What is this disaster?” And another said: “Garbage”.
further, The British environment The Voice He affirmed that “A Caribbean filmmaker resident in the United Kingdom, that preferred not to be identified, He saw the trailer and directly contacted the Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF). Described Jafaican as ‘An atrocious act painted modern black and a shameful sample of cultural mockery disguised as comedy '”.
Before this, The organizers of the festival in which the film will be released assured that “Peter Andre has a long trajectory of musical collaboration with Jamaican musicians ... and co -starring the film with the outstanding Caribbean musician Sizzla… The film seeks to show the Jamaican culture, do not make fun of her. further, The film is made by a predominantly Jamaican creative team and rolled mainly in Jamaica”.
Director: I would never do something derogatory for a country
Meanwhile, The film director, The British filmmaker Frost “Circle” drink it, In an interview for the BBC1Xtra He argued that in no case in the film is treated to Jamaica in a derogatory way.
“I think people see a trailer and a trial is formed based on what they see. But you have to watch the movie. The trailers are trailers, They are designed to achieve what they do: That people watch the movie”, Nwaka said in the interview.
The filmmaker stressed that Jamaica visits regularly and emphasized in the interview that “I would never do something that would consider derogatory for the country, that made it feel, did you know?, or to discredit it. I would never do it. And I went very, Very careful before release this movie”.
The premiere of “Jafaican” It will be this Friday 9 May at the Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF), In Australia, and then the cinemas of that country will reach the cinemas 14 May and the Odeon cinemas from the United Kingdom and Ireland exclusively 20 of May.
At the moment it is unknown when “Jafaican” will be released in the rest of the world.
