The Extraordinary Journey of the Tiwari
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir is a 2018 English-language French adventure comedy film directed by Ken Scott and starring Dhanush. It is based on a novel by Romain Puertolas titled The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, which was originally written in French. The film was shot in India, Brussels, Paris and Rome. The film released on 30 May 2018 in France. It was released in India, USA, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia on 21 June 2019.
Plot
Ajatashatru "Aja" Lavash Patel (Dhanush), who has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood, is a street magician and trickster who tricks people into believing that he possesses special magic powers. After his mother's untimely death, he sets off on a journey to find his estranged father in Paris with a fake EUR 100 note. There, he meets a woman named Marie Riviere (Erin Moriarty) in a furniture store whom he initially swindles, but is quickly attracted to her personality. Aja then experiences a series of wide-ranging adventures around the world, initially in an IKEA wardrobe to London, England, then a Louis Vuitton suitcase to Rome, Italy, and a hot air balloon to a ship heading to Tripoli, Libya, while being pursued by Parisian taxi-driver Gustave Palourde (Gérard Jugnot), whom he swindled out of a cab fare back in Paris. Along the way, he befriends a Somalian man named Wiraj (Barkhad Abdi), an illegal immigrant whom he met on the way to London.
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director | Ken Scott |
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genre | adventure comedy |
keywords | around the world england estranged father eur euro hot air balloon ikea illegal immigrant london louis vuitton mumbai paris rome rome italy |
musicBy | Amit Trivedi Nicolas Errèra |
producer | Aditi Anand Genevieve Lemal Grégoire Lassalle Gulzar Chahal Jaime Mateus-Tique Jon Goldman Luc Bossi Saurabh Gupta |
productionCompany | Brio Films Little Red Car Films M! Capital Ventures TF1 Studios |
publisher | Sony Pictures |