The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir
Rating
NC16 Some Mature Content
Language
English / Tamil with English subtitles
Cast
Dhanush, Berenice Bejo, Barkhad Abdi, Erin Moriaty
Synopsis
After his mother’s untimely death, a young Fakir(‘Trickster’) from the streets of Mumbai, ‘AJA’ (“Dhanush”), leaves for France to track down the father he never knew. From the moment, he arrives in Paris, nothing goes as planned. Aja falls instantly in love with a young American woman (“Erin Moriarty”) in a Swedish furniture store, having an existential crisis, wakes up in a truck full of Somalian Refugees (“Oscar Nominee Barkhad Abdi”) headed for England, is held hostage in a bureaucratic war, sorts out the love life of a Movie Star (“Oscar Nominee Berenice Bejo”), gets shot at by a hitman in Rome, travels by private jet from Spain in a branded suitcase, crash lands on a merchant ship from a hot-air balloon and becomes a rich man for a span of a few hours. What was initially supposed to be a simple visit to Paris, turns into an unbelievable odyssey across France, England, Spain, Italy and Libya. Adapted from an International Best Seller Novel – “The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe”, the film is a Comic, Romantic, Adventure dealing with the issues of “Illegal Immigrants” and “Karma”, through a veritable journey of Aja.