The story of Dhanush’s Hollywood production The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir has been revealed officially. The shooting for the film directed by Ken Scott is currently underway Mumbai.
Plot
Aja, a poor but talented magician from a village in India, is sent on a mysterious mission by his sick mother to visit the Eiffel Tower. A disaster with an eccentric taxi driver leaves him stranded outside an IKEA store in Paris, where he falls head over heels for Marie, a lovely Franco-American who befriends him. But his hopes for love are dashed when he accidentally gets stuck in a wardrobe and shipped across Europe! On the run from bandits and border police, he meets a colorful cast of characters as he hops across the globe escaping danger. Can his clever imagination and briefcase of magic tricks get him back to Paris to meet Marie and solve the mystery of his mother’s secret mission?
Dhanush said in an official statement, “So happy to be a part of this film with collaborators from 3 continents, looking forward to an extraordinary journey ahead”.
The movie is jointly produced by Brio Films, Vamonos Films, M! Capital Ventures, Little Red Car Films, Impact Films, Aurora Global Media Capital, Scope Pictures, TF1 Studio and Aleph Motion Pictures.