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Ramin Bahrani's portrait of breadline living centres upon Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi), a former rock singer from Pakistan - the "Bono of Lahore" - dragging his mobile van through the dawn streets to sell coffee and doughnuts to New York commuters. He wants to save enough money to afford an apartment for him and his estranged son, but circumstances and false friends thwart him. The contrast between Manhattan's opulence and the gruelling routines of a street vendor is poignantly drawn, though the lead performance is so lacklustre one might welcome its end with more relief than is seemly.