AK Vs AK Review: Anil Kapoor-Anurag Kashyap Film Is Hindi Cinema s Halley s Comet
AK Vs AK Review: Anil Kapoor-Anurag Kashyap Film Is Hindi Cinema s Halley s Comet
AK Vs AK Review: The Netflix original, directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, blurs the line between reality and fiction. Anil Kapoor (AK) and Anurag Kashyap (AK) play themselves and take swipes at each other in a trippy actor-director tussle. AK Vs AK Review: A still from the film. (courtesy YouTube )
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap, Sonam Kapoor
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
An off-the-wall two-hander that bends a whole bunch of Bollywood rules,
AK vs AK is unclassifiable fare. For the sake of convenience, let us call it is a mockumentary where a hostage thriller meets a madcap caper that swivels ceaselessly in a manner that we did not know was within the realms of possibility in a Hindi movie.
Anurag Kashyap and Anil Kapoor in AK vs Ak (2020) | Andolan Films/Netflix
Vikramaditya Motwane’s mockumentary-style parody of the Hindi film industry is perched on the fence between reality and imagination. Anil Kapoor plays a hugely successful actor and a member of a filmmaking clan, while Anurag Kashyap stars as a maverick director who is Bollywood’s ultimate insider-outsider.
In real life, Kashyap had cast Kapoor years ago in a film titled
Allwyn Kalicharan that never got made. In the Netflix movie
AK vs AK, Kashyap, his ego still bruised from Kapoor’s rejection, takes revenge in the only way he knows – he goes meta.
A still from ‘AK vs AK’ | Photo Credit:
Netflix
Starring Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap, AK vs AK has a pulpy premise and is outrageously funny, even though it doesn’t come together as a whole
Vikramaditya Motwane’s
Mank and the timing couldn’t have been more appropriate. In
Mank, we saw the fall of an alcoholic writer Herman Mankiewicz and, perhaps, the only time he refused to budge to power, to claim ownership to something that mattered to him the most. The film, based on Jack Fincher’s screenplay and partly inspired by Pauline Kael’s essay, raised a pertinent point about the authorship of one of the greatest films ever made,
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Actors playing themselves in cameos in films are not a new phenomenon, not just in Hollywood but also in Bollywood. But there have been many instances of actors who play fictional and exaggerated versions of themselves for added effect. For instance, Farah Khan’s OM SHANTI OM [2007] featured special appearances of many actors in such avatars. Recently, two Netflix shows, MASABA MASABA and FABULOUS LIVES OF BOLLYWOOD WIVES were also on similar lines. And now Netflix’s final Indian film of the year, AK VS AK, also takes up the idea but goes into a crazy zone. The trailer has already aroused curiosity and also the marketing campaign of pitting lead actors Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap against one another has caught attention. So does AK VS AK manage to give audiences a thrilling time? Or does it fail to entertain? Let’s analyse.
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