The work of the world’s most inspiring up-and-coming filmmakers can often serve as a testament to the wonders that can be achieved when imagination is matched with resourcefulness, loyalty and love. The new biographical drama, ‘Superboys of Malegaon,’ explores how amateur filmmaker Nasir Shaikh led his fellow residents of the small titular town to look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from their daily lives.

‘Superboys of Malegaon’ will be available to stream globally on Prime Video beginning this Thursday, April 24. In honor of the coming-of-age feature’s official release, Film Factual is debuting an exclusive clip from the project.

Amazon’s premiere of ‘Superboys of Malegaon,’ which is inspired by the 2008 documentary ‘Supermen of Malegaon,’ comes after the narrative movie won acclaim at numerous global film festivals. The feature was a Gala Presentation screening at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which marked its world premiere. The project also screened at the 68th BFI London Film Festival, the 4th Red Sea Film Festival and the 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Acclaimed filmmaker Reema Kagti (‘Talaash: The Answer Lies Within’) helmed and executive produced ‘Superboys of Malegaon.’ The drama marks her latest collaboration with producers Zoya Akhtar (‘Gully Boy’) and Ritesh Sidhwani (‘Gully Boy’). The movie, which was written by Kagti and Varun Grover (‘Three of Us’), stars Adarsh Gourav, Vineet Kumar Singh and Shashank Arora.

Based on a true story, ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ chronicles the life and work of Nasir (Gourav, ‘The White Tiger’), a self-made auteur. His no-budget, community-sourced productions turned his friends into cineastes and his hometown into an unlikely dream factory.

It’s 1997, Nasir is certain he’s destined for cinematic greatness, but great cinema never came out of his routine hometown of Malegaon. He gets his first taste of success screening mashups of Buster Keaton and Jackie Chan action sequences, leading him toward a bright idea: since Malegaon moviegoers love revisiting the classics, they would flock to see classics reimagined on their own land.

Borrows gear from a wedding videographer and assembling a cast and crew of locals, Nasir sets out to remake Ramesh Sippy’s beloved 1975 film ‘Sholay.’ Nasir’s campy, go-for-broke vision is a regional smash, and a glittering new road seems to open before him.

But Nasir’s journeys prove arduous. Along the way, it requires him to check his ego and recognize that the friendships that helped him start making movies were essential to their magic.