Superboys of Malegaon: directing a film about making films
Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti joined Kingdom of Dreams to talk about the filmmaking challenges inside Superboys of Malegaon, a story that is itself about people making movies. Directing a film about homemade cinema means the camera has to love the attempt, not just the finished illusion.
When your characters are filmmakers, every setup risks becoming a lecture about process. The craft move is to let the difficulty live in behavior: how a shot is chased, how a compromise is swallowed, how joy survives a bad day.
Akhtar and Kagti's conversation keeps returning to the work on the ground, the problems a set actually hands you, and why the finished film still has to speak past the people who already love movies.
Go deeper on Kingdom of Dreams
- → EP 210: Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti on Superboys of Malegaon
- → EP 82: Zoya Akhtar on directing The Archies
- → EP 313: Dan Attias on directing The Sopranos and Alias
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Original Kingdom of Dreams craft take based on our conversation with Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti (EP 210).