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A fun ride

Director Ken Scott's adaptation features popular Kollywood actor Dhanush as Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod aka Aja who pretends to be a fakir with special powers.

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In 2014, Romain Puértolas, a former French border guard, tasked with investigating illegal immigration networks in Paris, made his debut as an author with The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe. Written on a mobile phone while at work, the novel was a superhit in France where it sold six million copies.