Supermen of Malegaon.

2008. India/Japan/South Korea/Singapore. Directed by Faiza Ahmad Kahn. Kahnxe2x80x99s irrepressibly charming documentary gives new meaning to xe2x80x9cindiexe2x80x9d filmmaking. In a largely Muslim textile community not far from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai, part-time wedding videographer Shaikh Nasir enlists friends and neighbors to make an action-packed movie of his own. Despite the often hilarious mishaps and conceitsxe2x80x94the pencil-thin actor playing Superman is nearly snapped in two during one of the fight sequencesxe2x80x94their passion and ingenuity become a testament to the magic of cinema. As Kahn observes, “Working at a loom is an underpaying job involving serious health risks…They work six days a week for about ten hours a day and they’re on their feet the whole while. So on a Friday, which is a holiday, they go to a movie to forget the drudgery of their lives. For those three hours, they are Shahrukh Khan running through mustard fields or Abhishek Bachchan chasing a beautiful woman around trees.”

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Het heeft niets met een fiets te maken,
maar wel met India en ….