![]() After a dramatic reunion, they run out of water, are assisted by a wondering woman, who has never seen a movie before, and permit her to also ride with them while Om gives directions to a mythical fair. Om and Vishnu manage to play quite a few Bollywood movies overnight. Enroute, they are stopped by the police and held until and unless they play some movies for them as well as some villagers. The boy sets out and returns with a mechanic, Om, who fixes it and asks to be taken along. On the latter's insistence, he increases the speed, and the vehicle breaks down in the Rajasthani desert. He stops at a Dhabha, and decides to let the waiter, a young boy, ride with him. The journey proves transformative for each of the travelers, but especially for Vishnu who discovers life, love and laughter on the Indian highway.Īatma and his son, Vishnu, attempts to create a market for the former's hair-oil turn out to be in vain, and the latter decides to take a 1942 antique truck, that was at one time a mobile cinema-house, to a museum. If the films are boring, they face death in the outback. As in 1001 Nights, if the films are good, they live and move on. The key to their freedom is the eccentric collection of films and the two forty-year-old film projectors in the back of the truck. The journey turns dire when they are waylaid by corrupt cops and a notorious waterlord. Together they roam the barren land, searching for water and an elusive fair. Along the way, Vishnu reluctantly picks up a young runaway, a wandering old entertainer and a striking gypsy woman. ![]() As he sets off across the harsh terrain, he discovers he's not merely transporting a battered vehicle, but an old touring cinema. ![]() He offers to drive the antique Chevy across the desert to the sea, where it has been sold to a local museum. An old truck beckons, which Vishnu sees as his ticket to freedom. VISHNU, a restless young man, itches to escape his father's faltering hair oil business. A young man's journey across the mythic Indian landscape becomes a life changing odyssey.
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