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Vaya (2016)

Vaya (2016)

GENRESDrama
LANGZulu
ACTOR
Warren MasemolaHarriet ManamelaMncedisi ShabanguSihle Xaba
DIRECTOR
Akin Omotoso

SYNOPSICS

Vaya (2016) is a Zulu movie. Akin Omotoso has directed this movie. Warren Masemola,Harriet Manamela,Mncedisi Shabangu,Sihle Xaba are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. Vaya (2016) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.

Three people board the train bound for Johannesburg. Strangers, each on their own mission, with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the very people whose protection they sought, they find themselves trapped in the city - invisible and alone. Vaya interweaves three separate plots, that intersect and intertwine in a gripping, deeply moving and often funny narrative about struggling for survival and dignity in the city. In the first story a rural man has been promised a job, by his big city cousin. The money from the job will allow him to pay lobola back home which will change his life forever. He's excited; his cousin is an important man, whose patronage the village has relied on for many years. To work for him is a great honour. But on arrival he discovers that the job is not quite what he thought. He is required to kill his cousin's rival. In the second story a young man is sent to Jozi to reclaim his father's body, only to ...

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Vaya (2016) Reviews

  • Three mystery tours through Johannesburg, not to sightsee architecture but rather how people there interact, mostly self-serving their own interests but not always

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    Seen at the Berlinale 2017, where it was part of the Panorama section. After reading the synopsis about three people going to Johannesburg, or Joburg for short, none of them prepared for what to find there, we can expect sort of a mystery tour through the city. Better still: we get three such tours, a few times crossing each other's paths, while following three people (four, as one has a little girl with her). Their respective backgrounds as well as their mission in Joburg are shown to us in some introductory scenes, demonstrating most of all their unpreparedness for their tasks ahead. In the seemingly lawless parts of the city, it looks very well as if our protagonists are all doomed to end nastily, or at best to return "tail between legs" healthy but missions unfulfilled. They are going downhill from the start, and get deeper in trouble with every step. The world where they come from, is very different from what they find here in Joburg, where survival of the fittest is the norm. In short, the very opposite of the "one for all, all for one" principle. Initially they don't see their problematic situation yet, and trust the people they meet as they are used to do where they came from. Important in this context is to note that, the whole movie long, there is no sight of any authority, police force, or anything else that can enforce laws and other rules of engagement. All in all, an interesting sightseeing tour, not so much for the architecture but rather the people living there and how they interact, most of the time self-serving their own interests, yet a few times helping each other but not as a matter of course. The screenplay is well designed, even the man in the phone booth who we see appear a few times in the beginning, despite his initial defiant attitude, gets an important and positive role in the end. Finally, two small facts I learned from the Q&A. A lot of stories are combined in this movie, so "based on true stories" is true but it is not possible to provide for a solid reference to one book or some such. The title Vaya translates to: Go Away.

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