Reema Kagti’s ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ is a beautifully made, tragicomic tribute to life and cinema

The film can be seen as a companion piece to ‘Luck By Chance’. It follows a bunch of ordinary folks whose lives revolve around cinema. They make movies, and the movies make them. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

Nasir (Adarsh Gourav) is a wedding videographer in the sleepy town of Malegaon, which looks and feels like a Muslim neighbourhood of Malgudi. One evening, he takes the girl he loves to a movie starring Bruce Lee. She’s more practical: she says the star died early. But Nasir is a romantic: Bruce Lee, the man, may be dead, but Bruce Lee, the performer, is still kicking ass on screen. This is the emotional core of Superboys of Malegaon, written by Varun Grover and directed by Reema Kagti. People die, but actors are immortal. Nasir’s brother dismisses his interest in cinema as a hobby, “jaise ladkiyan sweater bunti hain”. The flavour in the line made me smile. He also warns Nasir that dreams come true only in the movies, not in real life. But Nasir, as we have established, is a romantic, and his growth as a scrappy filmmaker is charted beautifully. 

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