Nollywood meets Bollywood: the director combines two cultures
Hamisha Daryani Ahuja’s ‘Namaste Wahala’ marks the beginning of collaboration between the two film giants HARE: The yoga-related greeting “namaste” and the Pidgin word for trouble, “wahala,” widely used around the world thanks to Afrobeats, speak of Indian and Nigerian influences on the English language. But the two countries’ film industries, each a regional behemoth, have rarely crossed cultures. Indo-Nigerian director Hamisha Daryani Ahuja, however, has done just that, naming her first film – aimed at bringing together the world’s two biggest film industries, Bollywood and Nollywood – ‘Namaste Wahala’. “Nollywood has grown into Bollywood,” Mumbai-born, Lagos-raised Ahuja told AFP
