Name: Chikin Biznis: The Whole Story!
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1999-09-17
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Fats Bookholane, Sello Motloung, Connie Chiume

This 1999 South African film features decent acting and an unremarkable plot.

Jolly, middle-aged Sipho has just quit his 15-year job as a messenger for the Johannesburg stock exchange to go into business for himself.  He will retail chickens at the open market with the help of a young friend. (The idiosyncratic spelling of the title copies Sipho's lackadaisical signs.) Some humor derives from his interaction with other sellers, particularly a jealous rival at the market.

A complication is that Sipho, married to an at-home dressmaker, is romancing the young wife of a tough criminal currently in jail. Crises develop when Sipho's wife discovers the affair and throws him out, and his girlfriend's man gets out of stir.

"Chikin Biznis" is not a movie I would go out of my way to see, but a pleasant diversion and a peek into South African lower class culture.

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