Frank Rajah keeps away budget on 'Iyorie' movie

Director Frank Rajah has refused to put onto the public-know about the budget for his upcoming movie, 'Iyorie: The Return; A Life After Life'. It is a story about his homeland, Benin City, in Nigeria.

However, to shoot down speculations that the movie was his biggest budget movie so far, he said yesterday that the movie was not his biggest budget movie. The comment came less than two weeks after he remarked that the Iyorie was his best.


“It wasn’t an easy task but being my very first movie to be filmed on the ground and soil of my birth, I had to put in an extra effort to make sure this movie is rated best out of my best and multiple award-winning movies,” he said last week.


But according to him the new movie, which starred award-winning actress Rita Dominic, and actors such as Joseph Benjamin, Yemi Blaq, Okawa Shaznay and others is his second biggest budget movie.


He said his other upcoming film, The Refugees, starring Yvonne Nelson, Okawa Shaznay, Belinda Effah and Diana Yekinni, which was partly shot in the USA, was his biggest budget movie.


“I put-in my all to make Iyorie the best of my movies but it is the second highest in terms of budget. My highest should be The Refugees because we shot in and out of Africa," he said.

"I can’t at the moment tell you the budget of the movie because I am still spending. Perhaps when everything is done then we can talk about the budget. But wait for Iyorie, you will love it,” Frank revealed yesterday.


The Somewhere In Africa director, released the movie’s trailer on Thursday, July 31.


Below is a photo from the scene of Iyorie set: