Several Nollywood Stars Envied Me Back In The Day – Hanks Anuku

Nollywood actor, Hanks Anuku has come out to allege that some of his colleagues in the Nigerian film industry are diabolical.

He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, some Nollywood stars were diabolical, envious, and jealous of his shine back in the day, and he finds it hard to understand why we can’t just love one another as Nigerians.

Hans added that the truth of the matter is that human beings need each other because we can’t do it all alone.

His words, “In life, we must always keep space for falling down and standing up again. There was a bit of diabolism in the industry. Some people were diabolical, envious, and jealous of my shine back then.

In life even if you have a different opinion or heart of stone towards another man or woman, you should seek deliverance in church. We all need deliverance because we are not meant to condemn others.

We are not meant to be condemned; we are meant to be loved. Just imagine, if I were truly what they claimed, God forbid would they love or be of help to that person who gave you joy, who made you laugh, who gave you sweetness of life somehow that you did not understand but loved it. What is the problem of loving one another there is no problem in that, we need to learn how to love one another.

We need each other; we can’t do it alone. life is not going to end for me now because God is not finished with me yet.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.