How a Simple Movie Scene Turned Into a Cultural Catchphrase: Francis Odega Shares Behind-the-Scenes Story
His words
Gerara Here was actually from a movie I made in Umuahia with Bishop Okon, and the late Dede One Day. However, there was no line like Gerara here in the movie script, I crafted it myself. I can show you the script.
There was nothing like “Hold up, N*g*g@”, ‘You don’t know nothing’ na me put am myself. The movie was about returning from south Africa and normally you know say if you dey speak English give villagers after you return from South Africa, you no go dey use pidgin na.
That’s why I used that ‘You don’t know nothing’. The script wanted us to use the pidgin ‘Comot here’ so I changed it to ‘gerara here.’ but the guy no kuku understand, so I add am for Igbo, ‘Si ebe a puo’.”
