Belinda BW comedy grows
Baone Babosi (Belinda BW) also famed for his tag line ‘Swaris’ has made a tremendous impact in the local comedy industry. Since the inception of his comedy last year, Belinda BW has made great strides over time. The comedy has added more characters and broadened his talent.
This time around, the comedy brought on board more characters such as Sehadi, Moerikho, Kuna and Polena who play as Sehadi’s mother. Babosi plays the role of Belinda BW, where he is a stubborn and hilarious ex-wife to local television personality Matlhare Matlhare and ex-girlfriend to a character called Bethuele played by Jujuvine. The young comedian takes pride in his native Setswana language as all his video clips are recorded in rich Setswana. He is also multi-talented as he is is a gospel and jazz singer as well as a folksong writer.
Speaking of how his production has grown over the time, Babosi said the new characters and his current story were focused on telling and teaching people about issues that affect Batswana everyday.
He said the story showed poor parenting skills many parents more especially in marginalised areas portray towards grooming their children. “Belinda BW comedy has grown tremendously over time.
We have introduced new characters and new faces in the production such as Sehadi, Kuna, Moerikho Swari and others who are doing pretty well. The play shows poor parental guidance.
If you look at Sehadi, you will realise that she grew from a poor family background where parents do not chose what they say in front of their children.
This child always goes to Belinda and tells her about every gossip her parents had about Belinda. Even though she fell in love with Moerikho, Belinda is trying hard to lead him astray,” he said. The new characters are trending more especially Sehadi whose behaviour does not reflect her age. Belinda, who was left by her husband Matlhare because of her bad behaviour, ends up as a single mother.
Belinda likes men more especially those with money. Marriage is an accomplishment to her. She is described as a gold digger who is not afraid to leave a man for the one that has more money than the one she is with.
She is a selfish woman who is unable to love or respect other human beings. Belinda BW added that the story teaches people that parents should guide their children and that women must be faithful to their partners to avoid putting their lives at risk because having multi-concurrent partners poses a health risk and also makes one prone to Gender Based Violence (GBV). He said their content was rich in Gender Based Violence (GBV) teachings that increased during this COVID-19 era. “I differ with my colleagues in the local industry because I use our rich Setswana language. I play around with our idioms to make my storylines richer and interesting whilst teaching the youngsters our native language. My content is more of edutainment. I aim to make my viewers laugh their lungs out while learning at the same time. I tell real life issues that affect women through my content,” he said.