{"id":987,"date":"2014-04-01T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=987"},"modified":"2014-04-01T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T08:18:53","slug":"sdumo-mtshalis-star-shines-in-inumber-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2014\/04\/01\/sdumo-mtshalis-star-shines-in-inumber-number\/","title":{"rendered":"S’dumo Mtshali’s Star Shines In iNumber Number"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018iNumber Number<\/a>\u2019, the South African thriller written and directed by Donovan Marsh, opens in cinemas nationwide on 25 April 2014. Starring in the lead role is one of South Africa\u2019s favourite young talents, S\u2019dumo Mtshali, inthe role of honest undercover cop Chili.<\/p>\n

Mtshali was discovered when he entered and won the SABC1 reality competition \u2018Class Act\u2019, in 2010. After that, he landed his first leading rolein the SABC1 drama series \u2018Intersexions\u2019. The series went on to win a PeabodyAward in 2011. In 2011, he took on a recurring role on the hit daily drama,\u2018Rhythm City\u2019, as Maidi Kotwe, a married medical student involved in a torridlove triangle. Mtshali went on to star as Kuti Daniels in SABC1\u2019s \u2018TempyPushas\u2019, a drama series set in the glamorous fashion world and juxtaposed withSouth Africa\u2019s vibrant township culture. In 2012, he played Spikiri in thefeature film, \u2018Inside Story\u2019, directed by Rolie Nikiwe and produced byDiscovery Channel Global Education Partnership and Quizzical Pictures. In 2013and 2014, he has starred as Sibusiso, or \u2018S’bu\u2019 Ndlovu, in the Mzansi Magic telenovela \u2018isiBaya\u2019.<\/p>\n

Mtshali says he dreamt of being an actor from a young age. Hestudied acting at Durban University of Technology before entering Class Act in2010. As the winner of \u2018Class Act\u2019, his prize included representation from thetop SA casting agency, Moonyeenn Lee and Associates, an eight-week actingcourse at New York Film Academy and the lead role in the action feature film,\u2018iNumber Number\u2019. \u201cTo star in a film where corruption is the norm and gangsters from the streets of Soweto and Johannesburg relate to each other in \u2018tsotsi taal\u2019 was a huge amount of fun for me, as well as an exciting step upin my career,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

An action-packed movie, \u2018iNumber Number\u2019 is about a pair of copsbattling corrupt colleagues as well as a gang of armoured-car thieves. Chiliand Shoes (Presley Chweneyagae of \u2018Tsotsi\u2019 and \u2018State of Violence\u2019 fame) havebeen partners in the police force for eight years. After they make a riskyarrest, their corrupt superior refuses to give them the reward they are due.Enraged, Chili realises that honesty does not pay and reluctantly sets aboutinfiltrating a gang of armoured car thieves. The film boasts an oddball cast that brings comic relief to the ruthless thuggery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a top-quality film with outstanding performances,\u201d saysHelen Kuun, CEO of Indigenous Film Distribution, which is distributing \u2018iNumberNumber\u2019 in South Africa. \u201cIt recently won the audience choice award at the JoziFilm Festival, which indicates what a great crowd pleaser the film is. S\u2019dumoshines in the lead role and it\u2019s not hard to see why he\u2019s becoming so popularwith local audiences. He\u2019s a talent to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Producer Harriet Gavshon agrees. \u201cAs a heist movie, the film has anintricate plot and S\u2019dumo delivers on every level. Chili is an essentially goodguy who is disappointed because the system he believes in lets him down. Tornbetween participating in the caper and saving Shoes, Chili attempts to do both.When it becomes clear that innocent guards are going to be killed during the heist, Chili must decide if he is going to let the heist go down or not. S\u2019dumo captures Chili\u2019s struggle as the film reaches its climax.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018iNumber Number\u2019 is South African director Donovan Marsh\u2019s fourthfilm. An award-winning director, writer and editor, Marsh has worked in thelocal film industry since 1992. He wrote and directed the feature films\u2018Dollars and White Pipes\u2019, \u2018Spud<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Spud 2: The Madness Continues<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival inSeptember 2013. Los Angeles-based production and distribution company WrekinHill Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to \u2018iNumber Number\u2019and is looking toward a US nationwide theatrical release of the film in thespring of 2014. In addition, Universal Pictures optioned the remake rights to \u2018iNumber Number\u2019 at the end of last year,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a major coup for us as filmmakers because it highlights thequality of the film,\u201d says Gavshon. \u201cThe international film market is highly competitive and securing a US release and a remake are big wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

iNumber Number was produced by Marsh, Quizzical Pictures’ Harriet Gavshon, JP Potgieter and Mariki van der Walt, and executive produced by Nim Geva and Owen Kessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018iNumber Number\u2019, the South African thriller written and directed by Donovan Marsh, opens in cinemas nationwide on 25 April 2014. Starring in the lead role is one of South Africa\u2019s favourite young talents, S\u2019dumo Mtshali, inthe role of honest undercover cop Chili. Mtshali was discovered when he entered and won the SABC1 reality competition \u2018Class… Continue reading S’dumo Mtshali’s Star Shines In iNumber Number<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}