New Delhi, April 15 -- Close to intermission, a particularly intense sequence plays out in Superboys of Malegaon, a coming-of-age drama based on the real-life story of a bunch of amateur filmmakers set in the eponymous city in 1990s and early 2000s Maharashtra. After a huge showdown with his friends, a drunk and disgruntled writer screams: "Writer baap hota hai."

The young man, feeling betrayed by these young boys he has grown up with and with whom he has just made a film on a shoestring budget, wants to remind them that it is essentially because of the writer that everyone on a film set has a job. But like many others in Malegaon, the friends don't seem to get his creative sensibilities, and he soon leaves for Mumbai to chase his dreams...