The Fakir of Venice is a 2009 film which was halted for a decade due to production related issues and is set to release on 18th January 2019.
The Fakir of Venice is helmed by Anand Surapur, who is also producing the film. He had earlier produced the 2009 film Quick Gun Murugan. The Fakir of Venice is said to be lead actor Farhan Akhtar's first acting role, and also stars Annu Kapoor and Kamal Sidhu in the lead roles. In the supporting cast, we have Mathieu Carrière, Valentina Carnelutti, Umesh Bajpai, Alessandro Bressanello, Jhilmil Hazarika. It was presented as Opening Night Film" on April 2009 at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. The music is composed by A. R. Rahman
Direction: Anand Surapur | Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Annu Kapoor, Kamal Sidhu, Mathieu Carrière, Valentina Carnelutti, Umesh Bajpai, Alessandro Bressanello, Jhilmil Hazrika, Igor Horvat, Sushma Prakash, Marta Paola Richeld, Vikram Sahu, Joginder Singh
Dialogues, Story & Screenplay: Rajesh Devraj
Story Idea: Homi Adajania
Producer: Punit Desai, Anand Surapur
Executive producer: Junaid Pandrowala, Junaid Yusuf
Line producer: Enrico Ballarin, Guido Cerasuolo
Music: Sagar Desai
Cinematography: Deepti Gupta, Preetha Jayaraman
Co-cinematographer: Bakul Sharma
Casting: Daniela Foà, Lilia Trapani
Production Design: Susanna Codognato
Art Direction: Naveen
Costume Design: Isha Ahluwalia, Darshan Jalan
Makeup artist (Italian Unit): Consuelo Vitturi
Unit production manager: Fabrizio Cerato
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Consuelo Bidorini, Neha Kaul
Sound Department: Akilesh, Debajit Changmai, Debasis Dasgupta, Amrit Pritam Dutta, Marco Fazzalari, Shajith Koyeri, Debasish Mishra, Antongiorgio Sabia, Sreejesh, Philippe van Leer
Promo editor: Shaurya Chadha
Location Management: Mauro Fornea, Stefano Dalla Lana, Shoiab Sayed
Music: A.R. Rahman
Music supervisor: Rianjali Bhowmick
Production coordinator (Venice, Italy): Deborah Cesana
Publicity designer: Lalji Wagh
