Coming up on Rhythm City this Easter Friday, 21 March 2008:
Loads of sex is served up with the traditional confectionery, when Afro-Pop starlet, Sunay (Kelly Khumalo), desperate to resurrect her fallen career, secretly keeps on doing the deed with S’bu (Lungile Radu) in the hope of convincing him to produce as spectacular an album for her, as he’s done for her best friend, gospel diva Rachel (Lucia Mthiyane).
But, being a girl who always likes to keep her options wide open, Sunay also offers her considerable (previously hidden) talents on the sly to S’bu’s dad, Miles (Peter Se-Puma), the owner of Redemption Records.
His wife, Lucilla (KB Motsilanyane), knows that something is up and won’t take things lying down.
David (Jamie Bartlett) appears to be a reformed man following the blackmail ultimatum from his ex-lover Gina (Dorette Potgieter) that he sell her his strippers’ club, the Pussycat Lounge, for R1.5-million within three days - before she hands over incriminating evidence of his involvement in a past murder to the cops.
Homeboys, Suffo (Mduduzi Mabaso), S’bu, and Stone (Zenzo Ngqobe), have a frank and light-hearted discussion, from the male perspective, about sex and the implied social and sexual contracts in relationships with women.
In a separate (but equally forthright) conversation, the girls, Tshidi (Nokuthula Ledwabe), Charlotte (Nozipho Nkelemba), Mpumi (Relebogile Mabotja), and Puleng (Tebogo Carlo), talk about sex and the confounding, continuous mysteries of men and their thought processes.
Charlotte and Stone reach an agreement about intimacy: no sex until they’re good, comfortable, and ready.
Father Kop (Setlhabi Taunyane), to save the day, is infused with the righteous spirit (or does he have ulterior motives, too?) and redeems the citizens of Rhythm City.
He invites his landlord, the forlorn and homeless Fats (Mpho Molepo), to move a couple of paces from his temporary dwelling into the shelter of the Khuse household.
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