A film director and a movie star take their feud off the talk-show stage and into the streets of Mumbai, with a camera rolling the whole time. AK vs AK is a 2020 Indian comedy-crime thriller from director Vikramaditya Motwane, in which Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap appear as sharpened versions of themselves.
What is AK vs AK about?
The setup begins with an argument that gets out of hand. A filmmaker whose reputation has collapsed is humiliated in front of an audience by a famous actor, and he decides the only fitting answer is a project nobody could ignore. He abducts the star's daughter and announces that the frantic search for her will be shot as it happens, with no retakes and no script. What follows is a single night in which the actor must chase leads across the city while the man who engineered the whole ordeal keeps filming. The movie plays with the line between what is staged and what is real, folding in nods to the Kapoor family and to the Hindi film industry's own habits, and it moves between farce and genuine tension as the hours run down.
About the cast
Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap share top billing, each performing a self-portrait that pokes at his public image. Around them the credits list Sonam Kapoor, Harshvardhan Kapoor and Boney Kapoor, whose presence turns the premise into something of a family affair on screen, along with Sucharita Tyagi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Yogita Bihani.
Context & significance
Vikramaditya Motwane directs, and the film sits within a wave of Hindi-language productions that use the industry itself as subject matter. Running a little under two hours, it mixes comedy, crime, drama and thriller elements rather than settling into one lane, and its meta-fictional framing, where a real director and a real actor stage a fictional kidnapping, is the defining hook. The production is Indian, with Mumbai as the backdrop.
Watching AK vs AK on Ktime
AK vs AK streams on K-Time for signed-in members; reading this page costs nothing, but playback needs a K-Time account. The interface is built in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers abroad. This title is offered in its original Hindi presentation, without a Persian dub or Persian subtitles in the catalogue.