Burna Boy is stepping into producer mode and stirring up serious intrigue with 3 Cold Dishes, the upcoming thriller from director Asurf Oluseyi. The first trailer dropped with his voice booming over the opening beat of “Monsters You Made.” Burna Boy introduces the ride by counting down: “3, 2, 1, pow.” From that moment the tension snaps.
The story spans borders: Nigeria, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mauritania. It follows three women (Osas Ighodaro, Fat Toure, and Maud Guerard) trying to settle old scores. Trauma, betrayal, violence. Flashbacks of captivity with Ruby Akubueze as a younger version of Ighodaro’s character. Vows of revenge. Bits in French and English. Scenes shift from present to past, pain to fight. The women are hunting the men who trafficked them and betrayed them. The stakes are both personal and global.
The cast is stacked. Femi Jacobs, Mentor Ba, Amelie Mbaye, Wale Ojo join the chase. With co-producers like Bose Ogulu’s Space Films and cross-continent production partners, this film feels bigger than Nollywood. It feels Pan-African, crossing languages, cultures, cinematic styles. The trailer shows shootouts, crisis, explosive betrayals. It does not promise comfort. It promises reckoning.
The premiere is scheduled for October 3 at Cineworld O2 in London. After that it rolls out theatrically across West Africa, France, other Francophone nations, and beyond. The project already has two Septimius Award nods for Best Actress and Best Screenplay. That adds legit validation.
For fans of gritty stories and emotional truth this one lands. 3 Cold Dishes looks like it will challenge what Nollywood can do with women’s stories. It is not just about vengeance. It is about justice earned, silence broken, borders crossed in search of what is owed. Cinephiles should mark their calendars. This might be the role Burna Boy plays behind the camera that echoes loudest.
Source: NollyWire
