Half the trick lies in the casting. Anil Kapoor plays Anil Kapoor. Anurag Kashyap plays Anurag Kashyap. They get to badmouth each other exposing the other's fallacies in the build-up to an engaging thriller overflowing with wry wit.
Ak Vs Ak has to be the quirkiest film Bollywood made this year.
Vikramaditya Motwane's film thrives on its sheer absence of genre-specifics. It involves real people playing out a fictional storyline, and yet the narrative coldly draws from their lives to set up make-belief. The mocku-mentary style narrative plays out with the clinical precision of a true story, except that none of it actually ever happened.
Avinash Sampath's story is a two-liner. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap (as himself) and veteran Bollywood star Anil Kapoor (as himself) are at loggerheads. The filmmaker kidnaps Sonam Kapoor (as herself), daughter of the star, and sets off the senior actor on a frantic search,...
Ak Vs Ak has to be the quirkiest film Bollywood made this year.
Vikramaditya Motwane's film thrives on its sheer absence of genre-specifics. It involves real people playing out a fictional storyline, and yet the narrative coldly draws from their lives to set up make-belief. The mocku-mentary style narrative plays out with the clinical precision of a true story, except that none of it actually ever happened.
Avinash Sampath's story is a two-liner. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap (as himself) and veteran Bollywood star Anil Kapoor (as himself) are at loggerheads. The filmmaker kidnaps Sonam Kapoor (as herself), daughter of the star, and sets off the senior actor on a frantic search,...
- 12/25/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
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