Amateur Filmmakers Bring Bollywood Dream to Small Town in Uplifting ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ Trailer

The true-life story of Nasir Shaikh, an beginner filmmaker from the small city of Malegaon in India who realized his Bollywood dream, is launched within the trailer for Superboys of Malegaon, which dropped on Friday.

In Superboys of Malegaon, smalltown locals look to Bollywood cinema for escape, and Nasir pitches his pals on making a no-budget movie about folks of their lives.

A Sept. 13 gala world premiere on the Toronto Movie Competition shall be adopted by a Jan. 2025 theatrical launch within the U.S. and India for the Amazon MGM Studios comedy.

“, there’s a lot disappointment in Malegaon. All of us want comedy and a few laughter in life,” Shaikh, performed by The White Tiger star Adarsh Gourav, tells his skeptical pals at one level within the uplifting teaser. Director Reema Kagti’s heartfelt comedy then portrays what occurs when filmmaking and friendship in a small city in India collides, when Shaikh makes a campy ode to small city India that turns into successful with regional audiences.

“Nasir will get impressed to make a movie for the folks of Malegaon, by the folks of Malegaon. He bands collectively his ragtag group of pals to convey his imaginative and prescient to life, thereby bringing a recent lease of life into the city. The movie is a poignant but uplifting tackle each filmmaking and friendship — and what occurs when these two worlds collide,” a synopsis from the producers states.

The Excel Leisure and Tiger Child Manufacturing additionally stars Shashank Arora, Vineet Kumar Singh, Anuj Singh Duhan, Saqib Ayub, Pallav Singgh, Manjiri Pupala and Muskkaan Jaferi.

Superboys of Malegaon was directed by Kagti primarily based on a script by Varun Grover. The producer credit are shared by Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Kagti.