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‘Superboys of Malegaon’ Review: A Raucous Bollywood Crowd-Pleaser About DIY Filmmaking
Reema Kagti's biopic 'Superboys of Malegaon' is a moving, self-reflexive tribute to scrappy creativity.
Spanning events from 1997 through the early 2010s, the Bollywood biopic primarily follows photographer and wedding videographer Nasir Sheikh (Adarsh Gourav), a lovelorn man in the tiny city of Malegaon, whose few-hundred-mile distance from Mumbai, India’s financial and cinematic capital, may as well be measured in lightyears. Nasir runs a failing movie theater with his older brother Nihal (Gyanendra Tripathi), where he insists on showing Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin classics rather than the latest Bollywood fare, even if it means losing customers. This structural awkwardness stems from the film trying to portray every major event in its subjects’ lives, even though the 2012 documentary on which it’s based, Faiza Ahmad Khan’s “Supermen of Malegaon,” only covers one specific parody production of “Superman: The Movie” shot in the late 2000s, after the far-flung friends are forced to reconcile.
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