In 2025, a Hindi cinema film based on the documentary, Superboys of Malegaon, directed by Reema Kagti and produced by Excel Entertainment, was released to critical acclaim.
The town is fraught with communal tensions, poverty and hardship.
To get away from all this, residents of Malegaon take to making spoofs on Bollywood movies.
Supermen of Malegaon (Malegaon Ka Superman[1]) was never meant to be released as a movie and was originally made as a documentary for a Singapore TV channel.
[2] The documentary is set in the city of Malegaon in Maharashtra, India.