Supermen of Malegaon
U; Documentary
Dir: Faiza Ahmed Khan
Cast: Shafique Shaikh, Nazir Shaikh, Shakeel Bharati, Farogh Jafri and Akram Khan
Rating: ****1/2

Documentaries don’t carry the based-on-a-true-story tag for obvious reasons. In a similar way, they usually don’t intend to make us laugh. After all, most of them deal with grim topics leaving little space for humour. To make matters worse, very few amongst them get to hit the theatres and have an even ground. At least that’s the case in our country when it comes to this particular genre. Against these established precedents of inconvenient truth, Faiza Ahmed Khan’s debut project takes a rather different route. And how!

A scene from the film