The film stars Dhanush in the lead role, with Bérénice Bejo, Erin Moriarty, Barkhad Abdi, Gérard Jugnot, and Ben Miller as the supporting cast.

[1][6] Ajatashatru "Aja" Lavash Patel, 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 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.

In the ship, he gets robbed the money he earned by selling the shirt on which he wrote an emotional incident from his childhood.

The film was launched in January 2016 with Iranian director Marjane Satrapi and actors Dhanush, Uma Thurman, and Alexandra Daddario in the lead roles.

[11] The makers had previously considered the title Vaazhkaiyai Thedi Naanum Poren for the dubbed version.

The critics consensus reads, "The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir is undermined by its mawkish indulgences, but Dhanush's charming central performance is difficult to resist.