{"id":25992,"date":"2020-12-24T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/dec\/24\/ak-vs-ak-review-anil-kapoor-anurag-kashyap"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T08:00:09","slug":"ak-vs-ak-review-ingenious-meta-feud-of-bollywood-heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25992","title":{"rendered":"AK vs AK review \u2013\u00a0ingenious meta-feud of Bollywood heavyweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anurag Kashyap kidnaps the daughter of Anil Kapoor in a mock-doc thriller that skewers India\u2019s showbiz scene<\/p>\n<p>After an undistinguished pandemic year, Indian cinema closes out 2020 with a postmodern surprise, at once nifty and nasty. Shot under the radar, and announced mere days ago, Vikramaditya Motwane\u2019s mock-doc proposes a seismic smackdown between two industry figureheads. In one corner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/feb\/19\/anil-kapoor-slumdog-millionaire-interview\">Anil Kapoor<\/a>, cuddly patriarch of one of Bollywood\u2019s most illustrious clans. In the other, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/feb\/28\/anurag-kashyap-gangs-of-wasseypur\">Anurag Kashyap<\/a>, film-maker and longtime critic of movie nepotism, going a fiendish extra mile here by kidnapping Anil\u2019s daughter and giving dad 10 hours to find her. Kashyap, by orchestrating this round of meta hide-and-seek, intends to generate \u201cthe most dangerous hostage thriller in the history of cinema\u201d \u2013 spoken like a true showman.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/aug\/02\/sex-drugs-politics-streaming-netflix-amazon-blowing-up-bollywood\">Sex, drugs, politics: how the streaming giants are blowing up Bollywood<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/dec\/24\/ak-vs-ak-review-anil-kapoor-anurag-kashyap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anurag Kashyap kidnaps the daughter of Anil Kapoor in a mock-doc thriller that skewers India\u2019s showbiz sceneAfter an undistinguished pandemic year, Indian cinema closes out 2020 with a postmodern surprise, at once nifty and nasty. Shot under the radar,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,71,69,62,61,1800,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thrillers","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}