A new Kenyan crime film MTAA YANGU has premiered at leading cinemas countrywide with a successful premiere event held last week (6th October 2023) at Anga Diamond Plaza. MTAA YANGU is currently screening at Motion Cinema, Greenspan Mall in Donholm, Anga Diamond Plaza, Prestige Plaza and Century Cinemax Junction.

Tickets to watch MTAA YANGU are going for Ksh. 1,090 and available via Kenyabuzz.  

Prepare to be transported to a world of intrigue and drama as themes including love, betrayal, greed and corruption take centre stage in Kenya’s latest cinematic masterpiece featuring Makovo Mbatha (plays Gunner Kiprotich G), Benta Wesonga (plays Wambui Kamau), Emily Nene (plays Catherine Njeri) and Mary Kinya (plays Nancy Lubanga).

The action-filled film, directed by Likale Washington Muyonga, is centered around Kiprotich - a local gang leader and his gang members who benefit from exploiting locals by forcefully collecting illegal ‘tax’ from them. Residents of Mwiki Town suffer from that but ironically still take refuge and security from Gunner ‘G’ - the crime lord.

As if the unrest isn’t enough for the locals, they start to receive eviction leaflets from the area MP (Okelo) - played by Nathan Songa, the Governor who has an intention of attracting foreign investment. Mwiki Town is engulfed in unrest, as the residents demand for their rights and place of home. 

Gunner ‘G’ is forced to get into talks with the MP, who turns a deaf ear to the plight of the residents. An entitled G feels betrayed, especially following the fact that he helped the MP win and get into power illegally. After their heated meeting, the MP plots G’s murder using two rogue cops: Lurther and Ben. 

G finds love in Catherine Njeri - a resident of the area. In an operation, Ras - one of G’s gang members, kills Njeri’s brother. With the knowledge that this might jeopardize his relationship with Njeri, he decides to bury the truth about her brother’s death, unbeknownst of the guilt that would tear him apart. 

He decides to send Njeri to a medical school, as a means of running away from facing the truth and his guilt. To save the residents of Mwiki and his relationship, G hatches a plan to quit a life in crime.  However, he first has to rob money from the MP.  Will he succeed? 

MTAA YANGU shall simultaneously premiere Worldwide, to all 195 Countries & Territories, via Digital Cinema Extension - MyMovies.Africa™, to #RentFor2Days.

“This is the second Likale Washington Muyonga feature Film on MyMovies.Africa™”, says Trushna Buddhdev-Patel, Co-Founder, CEO & Content Director at Award-winning Kenyan Entertainment Technology Start-up – YAKWETU™, owner of the Service. “A year ago we premiered his TESTED globally too.  As you can see, we are Committed to making Kenyan and African stories, by Kenyan and African filmmakers, available across The Motherland and to her Diaspora.”