“I’m the king of thu-thu gutkha. Main
Hindustan ke har bachche ko, har jawan ko, har budhe ko sadakon par, diwaron
pe, schoolon mein, college mein toilet mein... thunkte hue dekhna chahta
hoon…kyunke muje gandagi pasand hai. I love gandagi!”
Thus spoke the indigenous villain
of Malegaon ka
supervillain. Is it a cult in making or what! Like most Indians I haven’t seen
any of Malegaon
cinema but watching this documentary made me salute the passion and spirit of a
man named Nasir Shaikh & his non professional crew who put into shame even
the professionals of film fraternity. They are not only the men who just dream
and live cinema but also desperately going for lot of personal sacrifices and
making the end meet to keep alive the flames of their creativity on silver
screen against all odds and reality. Though making entertaining parody of
Bollywood or Hollywood, they’re aiming to entertain their local audience with creative
spirit of originality in many fronts and not just ripping the film as
shamelessly as many poplar Hindi cinema.
In it’s one hour nine minutes
duration, Faiza Ahmed Khan’s this
documentary or rather a making of ‘Malegaon ka Superman’ not only get us familiar
with the madness of Malegaon’s film loving local crowd and the difficulty of a
working class one man army director but also gave us the insider view of small
town’s social and economical ground reality. The superman here is a working man
in power loom surviving on less than a thousand rupees per month like many
others; and its so unfortunate to know that the man died in cancer last year.
Watching the chronicle of Nasir
Sheikh, the one man army producer-director-camera man along with two other multi
task masters; a local video and sound editing master who not only achieves
special effects editing on old PC and a writer, musician, singer, lyricist all
in one talent who made me think when he recites one of his impromptu poetry on
camera. Watch how the man directing his camera’s panning, close up, dolly
shots, crane shots and moving shots and above all how they manage to make their
superman fly! Long live Malegaon
cinema and their superheroes; for me they are superheroes above fiction and
above fact of their routine power loom reality.
Ratings-8/10
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