House of Lungula (2013)

Country

Kenya

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How it feels

This Kenyan comedy follows three people dealing with relationship and money problems. A man struggles to gather money for his fiancé's dowry, a wife gets back at her husband for having a mistress, and a younger woman dates older men for financial support.

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What happens

House of Lungula is a 2013 Kenyan comedy film directed by Alexandros Konstantaras. It focuses on the sex life of typical Kenyans.The word "lungula" means "sex" in Kenyan slang, Sheng. The film stars Gerald Langiri, Lizz Njagah and Ian Mbugua. Langiri plays a hardworking man who needs money to pay for his fiancé's dowry, while Njagah plays a wife who decides to play a tit-for-tat game when she finds out that her husband had a mistress. Mbugua plays a man who maintains a secret relationship with a younger woman, played by Sarah Hassan, who in turn represents girls who date older men for money. The film was rated 18+ by the Kenya Film Board Association. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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