(Nondumiso
Tembe & Darrin Dewitt Henson)
The official trailer for Zulu Wedding, the much anticipated
romantic-comedy from producer/director Lineo Sekeleoane, has just been
released!
Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/sP2IXewPkw0
The film will be released nationwide on February
23, 2018, by Ster Kinekor Entertainment.
Unashamedly romantic, glamorous and
hilarious all at the same time, the film pays loving tribute to the richness of
African culture. It acknowledges the, sometimes schizophrenic, reality of many
urban South Africans who live sophisticated modern lives which are nonetheless
shaped by their family cultures, traditions and expectations.
Feisty choreographer, Lu “Lungile” (Nondumiso
Tembe), will do anything to avoid falling in love. Even more to avoid going
home to South Africa, where she’s traditionally engaged to a king. However,
when she meets her soulmate Tex (Darrin Dewitt Henson) she is forced to
confront the tradition she’s been running away from since the death of her
parents, when she turned 18, and the ancestral debt they left her. She hatches
a plan to confront the King and convince him to forget about her, but when she
prevails upon handsome royal advisor Zulu (Pallance Dladla), to help her get
into the Royal Compound, he proves to be a dangerously seductive charmer, one
who seems to represent all the best aspects of her background.
Tex, his wise-cracking best friend Nate
(Carl Payne), Lou’s eccentric traffic officer sister Mabo (Makgano Mambolo),
and her tell-it-like-is alcoholic best friend Sam (Bubu Mazibuko), set off to
‘the rurals’ to rescue her while the shifty Uncle Phineas (Jerry Phele), his
sexy wife Yvonne (Kelly Khumalo) and “The Basotho 10,”(led by TKZee Family’s
Gwyza) stay behind. The stage is set for hilarity, hi-jinks and heartbreak.
With an effervescent screenplay by Julie
Hall and stunning cinematography by award-winning Lance Gewer of Tsotsi fame, Zulu Wedding promises a lush, playful,
escapist experience which should appeal to fans of films like Happiness is a Four-letter Word and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
The star-studded cast includes Nondumiso
Tembe (True Blood, King Kong The Musical);
Darrin Dewitt-Henson (Soul Food, Lincoln
Heights, Stomp The Yard); Pallance Dladla (Tempy Pushas, Isibaya, Hard To Get); the hilarious Carl Payne (Martin, The Cosby Show); Bubu Mazibuko;
Kelly Khumalo; Lorcia Cooper, S’thandiwe Kgoroge; Treasure Tshabalala; Kole
Omotoso and Makgano Mamabolo with cameo appearances from DJ Tira, Carolyn Steyn
and many of South Africa’s best-loved celebrities.
The Luju Pictures Film was produced in
association with Brand Contact, the DTI, NFVF and Tsoga Afrika.
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