Title: BLIND VIRGIN OF MY TOWN (1 & 2)

Sequel: EYE OF THE BLIND (1 & 2)

Starring: Queen Nwokoye, Charles Awurum, Salome Okeke, Stephanie Ekwu

Synopsis:

A young woman with her entire life ahead of her marries a blind, 40-year old man, but her ulterior motives surface after the nuptials.  

Review:

Ugbor (Charles Awurum) is forty, blind, and a virgin. His only desire in life was to have the love of a wife and children but no woman in his village was attracted to him. His loving mother was on a mission to get him married and tried to persuade various women to take his hand in marriage. Not one woman was interested.  

One day Ugbor went to the market with the sole purpose of mingling with women but he still didn’t succeed at finding a wife. He did meet a new friend, Tracy (Moyo Lawal) but she only had a platonic interest in him. 

Ndidi (Queen Nwokoye) was a woman from Ugbor’s town and she was friendly with his mother. Ndidi was yet another woman who wasn’t impressed with Ugbor and she actually found him repulsive. But suddenly, she  changed her mind and agreed to marry him. 

Ndidi made it clear to Ugbor’s mother that in exchange, she had to be taken care of financially. Ugbor didn’t work so his mother paid her handsomely to ensure that she would give him children. The mother believed that Ndidi would be good to him and she was unaware of Ndidi’s hidden agenda. Ndidi had every intention of starting a new life in the city with her boyfriend, Emeka (Ben Chisom) and in no way was she going to get pregnant for a goat, as she often called Ugbor.  

It turned out that Emeka spent a lot of time in the city searching for a job and he was clueless about Ndidi’s marriage to Ugbor and that she was extorting money from his mother.

As the story progressed, Ndidi was forced to rethink her motives when Emeka found out about her secret marriage and Ugbor unexpected;y took a second wife. Desperation set in as her plan began to crumble and she had nowhere to turn. 

Let’s talk. This is what’s called a “dramedy” (drama + comedy) and Writer/Director, Tchidi Chikere gave the story a nice balance of both. He kept it simple – a forty-year-old blind man desperately wanted a wife but he shook things up by adding a woman that was willing to take advantage of the handicapped in order to fill her pockets. 

The writing was good in that it was able to keep the story engaging. Every character had a purpose and the Tracy character was cleverly blended into the story with her function revealed at the end. 

As for the main characters, Ugbor was blind but he wasn’t completely stupid but his heart played a role in allowing Ndidi to take advantage of him.

Ndidi was a character that thought she was smarter than everyone else but she was the one that was actually stupid. She slept with a blind man for money and then turned the money over to her boyfriend – a man that eventually left her for someone else. 

The humor came in when Ndidi pretended to be affectionate toward Ugbor in the presence of his mother but mistreated him behind closed doors. Whenever Ugbor threatened to expose her, she shut him up with sex. But Ugbor lost interest in her when he married his second wife, Oge (Stephanie Ekwu). Then Ndidi found herself doing something she thought she would never do – compete for Ugbor’s attention – the very man that she loathed! Hilarious. The story came full circle when Ndidi would have given anything to have Ugbor’s heart again. 

The movie had loads of funny scenes. One was when Ndidi requested that her bride price be paid to her. She had a list ready! Crazy. Another was when Ndidi turned Ugbor into a beggar on the street. But the funniest was Ugbor’s “happy dance” when he believed Ndidi was pregnant. 

There was one tidbit regarding the poison scene. How did the culprit know that only the intended target would eat the food? Anyone in the household could have eaten it, which would have spelled disaster. 

As for performances they were pretty good. Charles Awurum was no prince charming but he certainly fit the bill. He had the skill to provoke sympathy and humor with his character. Well done. I loved Queen Nwokoye in this. She must have had a blast playing the scheming character because I had a ball watching her. 

“Blind Virgin” warms the spirit. Tchidi Chikere has not only written some good stories but equally important, he’s created some great characters for actors to play. His work is a true blessing to Nollywood. RECOMMEND