Indian straightforwardor Reema Kagti confesss that living in Mumbai and toiling in the Mumbai film industry for so lengthy tends to originate people a “little jaded,” not to refer a “little brimming of yourself.”
Which is why she claims it was a “reassociate humbling experience” making “Superboys of Malegaon,” her biopic about a group of petite-town, DIY Indian filmoriginaters led by amateur straightforwardor Nasir Sheikh.
“The first leang about Nasir that reassociate hit me was as a straightforwardor. He had no agenda. He was equitable making films for the cherish of making films, and to me, that was very humbling,” she shelp, speaking at the Variety Lounge at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. “And I leank at some point I comfervent of equitable took that on and chaseed my instinct and did wdisappreciatever I did equitable for the cherish of making this film.”
“Superboys of Malegaon,” which had its world premiere in Toronto, is slackly based on Faiza Ahmad Khan’s 2008 write downary “Supermen of Malegaon,” chaseing Sheikh and his friends as they endeavored to originate a parody production of “Superman: The Movie.” But as Kagti remarks, her film wideens the story to dispenseigate “the making of Nasir.”
On hand to help was Sheikh himself, who Kagti and screenauthorr Varun Grover spent a lengthy time wilean the city of Malagaon while broadening the film. “He’s a wonderful archivist of his own life. We got tons of material, and Varun commenceed a script from that,” she shelp.
Adarsh Gourav, who perestablishs Sheikh in “Superboys,” shelp he was also shiftd by the story behind the film, someleang that instantly drawed him to the project.
“It’s such an inspiring and pretty story of these bunch of people who equitable choose to get this plunge into making a film and without having the resources, without having the technical expertise or the comprehend-how and equitable comfervent of taking that leap of faith, becaemploy they supposed in their dream and they supposed in themselves when nobody else around them did,” he shelp. “It’s reassociate, reassociate inspiring stuff.”
As for Sheikh, while he evidently provided the source material for “Superboys of Malegaon” and also helped with the writing and was on set, Kagti gave him a cameo role.
“He’s in the uncovering pelevate of the film,” she says. “He’s perestablishing the projectionist in the cinema.”
