Rohan smiled. “This is our Stephen Chow.”
Over the next year, he became a collector. He traded old marbles and Pokémon cards for CDs of Shaolin Soccer , The God of Cookery , and King of Comedy . Each one had been dubbed by the same mysterious group of voice actors. He never knew their names, but he recognized their voices. The same gruff baritone who voiced the Landlord voiced the bitter soccer coach in Shaolin Soccer . The same bubbly, shrill voice that played the heroine in The God of Cookery also played the mute girl in King of Comedy .
But whenever he has a bad day, he puts it on. He watches Stephen Chow, a struggling actor, begging for a role, and the Hindi voice actor saying the line that never fails to heal his soul:
It didn’t. To Rohan, this was simply magic. The movie was Kung Fu Hustle , but the title on the scratched CD case read: Kung Fu Hustle – Hindi Dubbed – The Landlord vs. The Axe Gang .