Justin Falvey

Mara Pappa Superhero is about a 9 year old girl's struggle to establish that her father is a superhero. The film revolves around slum dweller Kanku, whose parents are street vendors. Kanku would stay with her uncle, while parents would go to work. The uncle works in a villa as a create taker. Kanku is friends with the owners daughter, 12 years old Kiara. Kiara is a cartoon fan and she loves watching Superhero cartoons on TV channels. On one such days, when Kanku comes to play with Kiara; Kiara tells her as to how much she loves Superheroes and that her father is a superhero. This thought strikes the mind of Kanku. Kanku goes back home disturbed. She wants to believe that her father is also a Superhero. She tried give this great news to her father. But the father doesn't understand her, he hasn't even seen how the Superhero looks like. Kanku struggles to find a visual reference of a Superhero. Once she finds the reference, she reaches out to her parents, only to get ridiculed by them. The father out rightly rejects the idea of him being a Superhero. Kiara and her uncle also do not believe in her. The only person who believes in her is her best friend from the slum Jamburo. Kanku makes a lot of efforts to establish that her father is a Superhero. At the end she almost loses hopes. But while her mother narrates a mythological tale to her, where the God had forgotten about his super powers and he had to be reminded of his super powers; Kanku realizes that perhaps her father is a Superhero, and he has forgotten his Superpowers. She decides to climb the terrace and jumps in front of his father, thinking his father will fly and save her like a Superhero. Kanku loses her senses. She is almost in a vegetable state. Here is where the father's emotional journey starts. He decides to take up the profession of performing as a Superhero on the streets of Ahmedabad. He wants to show the daughter that he is a Superhero, but the daughter cannot react to him. Eventually, he becomes so famous that people in the city start referring to him as a superhero. So, will the chirpy, bubbly Kanku come out of her vegetable state? Find out in this tear-jerking narrative.