With the recent release of the short video film accompanying Soldier, Falz’s second duet with Simisola Ogunleye (SIMI), it can be said that both musicians are guilty of the Midas touch.
To keep up with the success of Stories That Touch, Falz’s sophomore album and one of the best musical albums of 2015, early this year, he teams up with Mr Clarence Peters, the ace music video director, to make a film of almost 15 minutes.
The short film dwells on recent happenings and many of the scenes are reminiscent of the popular Academy snubbed Beast of No Nation film scripted from the eponymous book written by Uzodinma Iweala. Falz stars as chief lieutenant or sergeant whilst Simi plays the role of his village love interest/school teacher.
This video is almost reminiscent of the video for Simi’s breakthrough song Jamb Question, but it is longer and clearly more ambitious. It begins in the middle, a popular trick, with scenes of the kidnap of six females including Simi from an unnamed location presumably in western Nigeria, and an ensuing rescue mission led by soldiers.
Soon enough, a tender love story of promenade between a soldier and a civilian village girl is told. It is comical with Falz deploying his Television friendly alter-ego, Brother Taju, speaking with his H Factor.
This is expected especially from Falz who recently clinched Best Comic Actor at the AMCVA and performed the song, Karashika, a tribute to a film of same name made in the 90s.
Watch the video here:
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