Actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee’s new film Tiki-Taka follows a Senagalese man Khelechi Ajgubi (Emona Enabulu) who is in Kolkata for p...
Actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee’s new film Tiki-Taka follows a Senagalese man Khelechi Ajgubi (Emona Enabulu) who is in Kolkata for personal reasons. Khelechi and Ajgubi mean “played” and “strange” respectively in Bengali. In Kolkata, where footballers of African nationality are a fixture in the major football clubs, Khelechi is quickly mistaken to be a football player.
Khelechi gets mixed up with Raju, played by Chatterjee, and journalist Bonnie, played by Ritabhari Chakraborty. “Raju is a street-smart taxi driver, and together with Bonnie, they set Khelechi up as a football player,” Chatterjee told Scroll.in. “The film is essentially a comic take on how a lot of African men don’t even come to play football, but are pulled into the sport in Indian cities like Kolkata, for example, Chima Okorie.”
Football clubs compete to sign Khelechi, and the police get involved. Playing the antagonist is PK (Saswata Chatterjee), a North Kolkata showman who is all about “thumris and mujras and chandeliers”, Parambrata Chatterjee said, “but is involved in a lot of illegal stuff”.
The supporting cast includes Kanchan Mullick, Paran Bandyopadhyay, Kharaj Mukherjee, and Shantilal Mukherjee. Shot in Bengal, and dubbed in Hindi, the film is being streamed in both languages on Zee5 from September 11.
