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Supermen of Malegaon
सुपरमैन ऑफ़ मालेगांव · 2008
A power-loom town with communal tension and no money makes its own Superman film, with a stick-thin local hero on wires.
- Director
- Faiza Ahmad Khan
- Year
- 2008
- Genre
- Documentary
- Cast
- Shaikh Nasir, Farogh Jafri, Akram Khan
Why it's in the canon
The purest documentary about why people make films at all. Funny, and then quietly enormous.
A power-loom town with communal tension and no money makes its own Superman film, with a stick-thin local hero on wires.
Supermen of Malegaon sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Faiza Ahmad Khan.
- Released in 2008, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Documentary.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Supermen of Malegaon (2008) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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