The Extraordinary Journey Of A Fakir Review: Dhanush Takes The Cake In This Magical Film

Movie: The Extra Ordinary Journey Of A Fakir

Actors: Dhanush, Berenice Bejo, Erin Moriarty, Barkhad Abdi, Gerrard Jugnot, Ben Miller

My Verdict: Watch The Film And Let Your Mind Glide Over All The Negativities And Feel Great About Yourself And Every Moment You Live

Rating: 4 out of 5

What a film! It is perhaps one of those films that got me so amused that I was lost. And trust me, I didn’t want the journey to end. Well, a story is what its characters are and in this one, the narrator himself happens to be the protagonist of it. He wields it the way he wants to, he twists it and turns it in every way he can mind you, there is no sudden jerk!

Dhanush plays the Fakir’ who is actually a cop. He takes three adolescent boys into custody for delinquency and instead of putting them behind bars, teaches them the value of life and karma through a fascinating story that takes his own imagination through the land of love – Paris, to the land of abundance England, to the land of the refugees – Libya, and back to India.

Dhanush is Ajatshatru who is street-smart, intelligent and is also light at his feet. Dhanush has a certain endearing quality to him that is there all throughout. His face, his eyes, his smile, everything oozes a certain charm that, being a guy, I was influenced by it. That’s all that it takes… Doesn’t it?

Everything he concocts throughout the story is plausible. I as a viewer felt as though, that is exactly what I would have done, that is exactly how I would have reacted and that is exactly how fate plays with me. Is it really fate or is it our Karma – The film made me think!

Dhanush took me on this beautiful roller-coaster ride that scared me at the prospect of living like an immigrant in a foreign country and at the same time, put a smile on my lips with the thought that everyone in this world is not bad, it is full of people who care, who love, who believe in the good!

Director Ken Scott’s India is just as it is. Just as a foreigner would see first hand in this country. The slums, the cows, a beloved yet concerned mother. It was all too real and yet magical!

The music by  Nicolas Errera deserves a special mention because it happens to be the backbone of the film. The sounds of imminent danger, the sounds of laughter and fun, the music, the songs, all were lovely to the ears and they fitted the scene or sequence perfectly.

The edit by Phillip Bourgueil and Yvan Thibaudeau was seamless, the decision to use invisible cuts did the trick. It was flowing, it is like I am on some kind of a magic carpet and it is taking me through these exotic lands and countries and I am just gliding over them.

The film is an optimistic, unassuming, light-hearted view of life and the characters it brings with it which makes the journey so mesmeric.