Malaika and Zaki may not see eye to eye with each other but can they get the biggest investor on board, let’s find out in Married to Work ending explained. The film is directed by Philippe Bresson while the concept is created by Idris Sultan. The screenplay is written by Angela Ruhinda and Nadira Shakur, who also co-produces the film under the banner of Okada Media.
The cast of the film includes Brian Chandrabose, Brian Abajah, Melvin Alusa, Grace Wacuka, Meg Otanwa and Idris Sultan. With a runtime of about 1 hour and 16 minutes, the film is shot in three locations, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. The story follows an ambitious Kenyan woman, who is forced to pretend to be married to her Tanzanian boss in order to save his company from bankruptcy.
Netflix’s description of the film reads:
TO SAVE THEIR REAL ESTATE AGENCY, AN AMBITIOUS BUSINESSWOMAN AND HER ENTITLED BOSS MUST CONVINCE AN INVESTOR THEY’RE MARRIED — DESPITE HATING EACH OTHER.
Married to Work Ending Explained
In the film, we saw that Zaki Mlemba is aspiring to become a music producer but after his parents die in a boat accident, he has to take over their Mlemba & Mlemba estate company. On the other hand, in Kenya, Malaika is the youngest director in her company and is dating her subordinate for the last 5 years.
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But when their picture, in which they are kissing each other is shared among her colleagues, they tell them to either break off their relationship or one of them will have to leave the company. Dating among colleagues, especially where there is a difference in power dynamics, is prohibited. Malaika finds a loophole and asks her boyfriend Mark if they can marry, and will be assigned to different departments instead of having to leave the job.
But Mark says that he is not ready to marry yet and we get to know that Malaika leaves her job instead, to find another. But as soon as she gets an offer from Mlemba estates in Tanzania, Mark tells her that he found someone else and this heartbreak urges her to move to Tanzania. But the new start at a new company doesn’t go all that well due to the cold, indifferent CEO – Zaki.
Somehow, Malaika has been able to keep her job for the past 2 months despite being ignored by Zaki and not acknowledged for her work. She decides to turn things around and takes him on a conference trip to Zanzibar, to make connections and find investors for their company. However, when they reach their hotel, they find out that the assistant had booked only one room instead of two and the hotels are all booked.
They are forced to share the room and spend more time together. It had already irked Zaki how she was bossing him around but when he got to know that the board of directors are thinking of making her the CEO and removing him, he does something unthinkable. He mails to the board head that Malaika is not the right person and behaves unprofessionally.
Meanwhile, in Zanzibar, they meet a foreign investor from Nigeria – Mrs Yvonne Ezenna. Malaika thinks that if they can get her to work with them, the company can be saved from going through a financial crisis. Thus when she mistakes them for a married couple, instead of correcting her, Malaika decides to keep the married couple’s act and get investment from her.
Zaki is opposed to it at first but decides to give it a go and as he spends more time with Malaika and Mrs Yvonne, he gets to know her on a personal level. Meanwhile, Malaika also gets to know that Mark is getting married to someone else when he said that he wasn’t ready to marry her. On the brighter side, things seem to be going well for Malaika & Zaki as the investor was ready to work with them.
Just then, they happen to meet Zaki’s neighbour in Zanzibar and she ends up spilling the truth that they slept together. Mrs Yvonne thinks that he cheated on Malaika and she decides to act heartbroken as well. Frustrated by being wrongly framed as a cheater and being left stranded on the beach, he has an argument with Malaika where he accuses her of enjoying the pretence too much & maybe she is trying to actually get married to him.
The statement upsets Malaika and soon after she gets a call from Mr Temu who tells her that he got a complaint about her behaviour and on doing a background check, they got to know the real reason for leaving her last company. Thus they are terminating her contract with them. Enraged by everything, she decides to go back home while Zaki meets up with Mrs Yvonne to explain everything.
She makes him realise that he actually likes her and wants to be with her. Therefore, he gets Malaika’s tickets cancelled and goes out to meet her and apologize. He tells her that she has been promoted to the position of CEO after he explained to everyone. In the end, we see that the company is doing well and even Mrs Yvonne came on board.
Married to Work is currently streaming on Netflix.
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