There’s a moment in “Superboys of Malegaon” where Nasir (Adarsh Gourav), a young aspiring filmmaker, watches a Bruce Lee movie with his girlfriend. When she laments how sad it is that Lee died so young, Nasir turns to her and says: “He’s not dead. Just look! See how he kicks.”
Film, Nasir believes, can make you immortal. And he aims to gain a little bit of immortality in his lifetime.
“Superboys of Malegaon,” inspired by the 2008 documentary “Supermen of Malegaon,” is based on the life of Nasir Shaikh and other amateur filmmakers from the small town of Malegaon, India, a place primarily known for its loom industry rather than its movies. Despite that, Nasir and his friends work their tails off making parodies of popular Indian movies, taking the melodrama and glamour of those films and turning them into something that fits more with their scrappy, small town sensibility.
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