The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Directed by	Marjane Satrapi
Produced by	Aditi Anand Luc Bossi
Story by	Romain Puertolas
Based on	The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas
Starring	Dhanush Alexandra Daddario Uma Thurman Gemma Arterton Barkhad Abdi Laurent Lafitte Seema Biswas Abel Jafri
Cinematography	Maxime Alexandre
Language	English

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2017) is a hollywood comedy film, which is based on the novel The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas.

Marjane Satrapi is directing the film and Dhanush is making is Hollywood debut with this film. The original novel was a charmingly exuberant comic debut from an exciting new literary voice, and a “quirky, hilarious, elegantly written farce” (The Daily Telegraph). Indeed, it is the globetrotting story of a trickster from rural India and his adventure of a lifetime.

Plot

One day a fakir leaves his small village in India and lands in Paris. A professional con artist, the fakir is on a pilgrimage to IKEA, where he intends to obtain an object he covets above all others: a brand new bed of nails. Without adequate Euros in the pockets of his silk trousers, the fakir is all the same confident that his counterfeit 100-Euro note (printed on one side only) and his usual bag of tricks will suffice. But when a swindled cab driver seeks his murderous revenge, the fakir accidentally embarks on a European tour, fatefully beginning in the wardrobe of the iconic Swedish retailer. As his journey progresses in the most unpredictable of ways, the fakir finds unlikely friends in even unlikelier places. To his surprise - and to a Bollywood beat - the stirrings of love well up in the heart of our unlikely hero, even as his adventures lead to profound and moving questions of the perils of emigration and the universal desire to seek a better life in an often dangerous world.

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