Nigerian hip-pop singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly called Tuface, on Wednesday celebrated comedian Ayo Makun, fondly called AY, for his movie “30 Days In Atlanta,” officially recognized by the 2017 Guinness World Records.
Ay’s first produced movie “30 Days In Atlanta,” was on Tuesday officially recognized by the 2017 Guinness World Records as one of the films with the highest domestic gross in the territories of Bollywood, Nollywood and Hollywood.
The comedy movie was listed alongside “PK” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
Tuface took to his Instagram page, @official2baba, moments ago to congratulate Ay for the laudable achievement.
The songwriter wrote, “Wow!! Comedian Ay’s first produced movie ’30 Days In Atlanta’ which was directed by Robert Peters, has been officially recognized by the 2017 Guinness World Records as one of the films with the highest domestic gross in the territories of Bollywood, Nollywood and Hollywood. The record breaking movies listed are ‘PK’ from India, ’30 Days In Atlanta’ from Nigeria and ‘Star Wars’ From The United States of America.
“This is the first time ever that the Nigerian film industry which is one of the largest in the world, will be achieving a tremendous success that will be registered by the ‘Guinness World Records’ since 1955 when it was first published.
“As we celebrate this milestone by Ay, it will be nice to see him break his own records with his highly anticipated new movie ‘A Trip to Jamaica’ premiering on September 25th, and showing across cinemas in Nigeria from September 30th.
“Congratulations AY!!@aycomedian.”
WuzupNaija recalls that Ay had announced the achievement on his Instagram page earlier on Wednesday, writing, “I am dedicating this milestone in my career to all the casts and crew of 30 Days In Atlanta. Also to everyone who went to the cinemas to see the movie when it came out.
Let’s do it again with my new movie ‘A Trip to Jamaica’ premiering on September 25th, and showing across cinemas in Nigeria from September 30th.”
The movie stars AY Makun, Vivica Fox, Lynn Whitfield, Karlie Redd, RMD, Ramsey Noauh, Desmond Elliot, Mercy Johnson, Rachel Oniga, Ada Ameh, Uti Nwachukwu, Kese Jabari, Majid Michel, and Juliet Ibrahim.