AK vs AK (2020)
7/10
An improbable curiosity that works perfectly
16 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Here's a film that's out of the ordinary. Anil Kapoor's daughter is kidnapped by a film director to force her to star in his film. The film is a reportage, a documentary, which we follow. Anil Kapoor playing herself, and Anurag Kashvan, the director, playing himself. With a prologue in which both are on a television set where Anurag Kashvan calls Anil Kapoor an actor of the past, and Anil Kapoor mocks Anurag Kashvan's films and their lack of success.

What follows is a film that unfolds before our very eyes, in which Anil Kapoor must find his daughter before dawn, or she will be executed. Director Anurag Kashvan filming Anil on his quest to find his daughter.

This zany and inventive starting point gains even more interest when the story no longer unfolds according to Anurag Kashvan's script. The great strength of the film is the unpredictability of what's going to happen, which is multiplied when the script is changed without the director's advice.

An amazing, crazy film, a hymn to Anil Kapoor, with the help of Anurag Kashvan. To understand what's going on: it's as if Martin Scorcese kidnapped Leonardo Di Caprio's daughter and forced him to find her at night in New York, with a camera following him as he investigated. The film is, we imagine, perfectly written, but the on-the-spot camera treatment makes the viewer forget and follow as if it were real.

A real curiosity.
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