French Biriyani

<p>The film starts with the introduction of Don Charles aka Powder Charles, (who is a and ) on his deathbed. He receives a call from someone who says- “Solomon is landing with the thing.” After that, Charles summons his useless, good-for-nothing son Mani, to whom Charles strictly instructs- “Tell Suleiman that Solomon will bring the thing in the evening.” To ensure that he doesn’t forget, Mani repeats the statement to himself again and again. Then he gets distracted by a , which leads him to forget what his father told him. Due to the disruption, he forgets what his father told him, and goes back to get the instruction again. But by the time he does so, Charles has already passed away. During Charles’ mourning, Suleiman, the driver is given instructions. But Mani fails to recall the proper instruction. It leaves Suleiman no choice but to go the airport and ask everyone if they have the “Samaan” (transl; thing). As he does so, a man named Simon thinks that Suleiman has mispronounced his name, and goes along with him thinking that Suleiman is his assigned taxi driver. Simon knows very minimal English, which leads to a lot of misunderstandings. Then a led by taxi drivers association interrupts the journey. Suleiman is dragged out of the car by protesters for against the association rules, which leads to Suleiman telling Simon to handover the to him and leave. Simon, confused, then grabs the suitcase from him and starts asking for help. A , Malini, and , Kannappa who were covering the protest try to interview Simon asking for his thoughts, but Simon keeps asking for a way to go his hotel. Due to the there is no proper conversation between them. Then comes in Asghar, an driver who has a crush on Malini. She then tells Simon to take Asghar’s help in order to find his hotel. As Asghar and Simon are on their way to the hotel, his auto collides with a car which damages the auto. The driver of the car and Asghar have a fight, and attract a huge crowd. But as they were fighting, a bus drives by and one of its passengers spits out of the window, which lands on Simon. Meanwhile, Mani and his gang capture Suleiman, who is interrogated by Mani. After Suleiman fails to give a proper answer, he is subject to . Next it is shown that Asghar has taken his auto to a mechanic, and Simon has freshened up. He needs a charger for his phone, and gives his phone to a boy who gives it to a fruit seller who has a charger. The charger is on a bunch of bananas, and the boy connects the charger to phone and leaves the phone there itself. Then Asghar asks Simon to pay for the auto damages, and as they are fighting, a man steals the suitcase which was kept on the backseat of the auto and flees. After a chase, Simon fails to nab the . After that, Simon asks for his phone, and he goes to the fruit seller for it. There, a is eating the bunch of bananas, and he realizes that the cow has inadvertently eaten the phone too. He then holds Asghar’s collar and again picks a fight with him, accusing him of stealing the phone, during which he spots a policeman and tries to report Asghar to him. Asghar, Simon, the mechanic, the cow, and a few others are brought down to the police station. Simon tries to narrate his problem to the inspector, who asks what was in the bag. He then explains in his broken English that he works for a , but he uses the word ” ” which makes the officers think that he was part of a that has been transporting drugs from to . The police then disregard it and let him go. Then comes the day of Charles’ . As it is a , his mortal remains were being carried in the streets by a few men. Asghar and Simon go to see the funeral, and realize that one of the men carrying Charles’ remains was the thief who stole Simon’s bag from the auto. It then leads to Charles’ body falling down as a result of Asghar’s chaotic way of trying to nab the thief. Then the story briefly shifts focus to Rahila, Asghar’s sister who with Purshottam, as they were part of an marriage. Due to this, Rahila’s mother in law always torments her for not having a child yet. The couple go to a The doctor says that Purshottam’s , which is the reason for their inability to have a child together. Rahila then returns home, and shows Asghar a notice sent by Purshottam on behalf of his mother. Later, Mani summons Asghar and asks him about Simon. Mani then tells Asghar that Purushottam is planning to flee to Dubai. Then, a servant exposes the fact that Asghar only made Charles’ body fall down, and it leads to Mani’s gang chasing Asghar who fled as soon as he could. The film commenced filming in January 2019 in and finished shooting in forty days. The plot of the film is based on the journey of when he travelled from Bangalore to . When Bharana arrived in Chennai, he was approached by several drivers who took him through small alleyways. The film is about a three-day trip between an auto driver from (played by ) and a French emigrant (played by ) during the latter’s visit to Bangalore. star made her film debut with this film and enacted the role of a news reporter. The songs are composed by , Pannaga Bharana’s cousin. The first single from the film, “The Bengaluru Song”, has lyrics by Vaibhav and Avinash Balekkala and is sung by . The next single from the film titled “Yen Madodu Swamy” sung by was released on 21 July 2020. The film was originally scheduled to have a theatrical release in August 2020, but due to that was dropped in favour of an online release. The film was released on 24 July 2020 on . gave the film a rating of two-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that “The first half of the movie is full of improv humour following the terrifying experiences of the French national. And add to that Danish’s flawless Urdu mixed with urban Kannada dialect, you get plenty of funny moments over the course of two hours”.</p>