Anikulapo Ending Explained: Anikulapo stands for someone who holds death in his/her pouch and that is true for the protagonist of the recently released Nigerian film of the same name on Netflix. The film is about a proud & boastful man named Saro who lives a life of leisure in a village where he is hailed because he can bring dead people to life with his pouch that contains magical dust that came from his past that he seems to have forgotten.
The film starts off with Saro getting killed and get resurrected by an Akala Bird which is a mystical bird that has the power to bring dead people alive and brings back Saro alive so he could know the reason for his death.
Saro after getting resurrected goes to the village where he gets involved with one of the King’s queens and when their effort to run away is ruined by the arrival of the King’s men who beat him to death while Awolake (The King’s Queen) watches and then stays with him until the Akala Bird comes to resurrect him again and send him back to the dead but Awolake comes and scares the bird away and finds a black gourd and takes that with them.
Then, Awolake & Saro go to a village where they find a child dead and upon request of Awolake, Saro brings back the child from death with the help of the gourd and then gets the alias of Aníkúlápó. Years go by and he is the proud & boastful man we talked about at the start of this article and treats his wife Awolake miserably with another wife that he has 2 children.
One day after the situation gets tense and Awolake has enough of that, she leaves Saro with all the black dust that Saro uses leaving him useless when the time comes to make the village prince alive when he so arrogantly asks for the princess’s hand in return for the prince’s life but when unable to do so, he is killed by the King’s men and at the end of the film, the Akala bird comes back to take him back to the dead.
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The film weaves an interesting tale of second chances and how a man can get influenced by the shining lights and can change his nature until that very same second chance slips away again.