When Anil Kapoor called Anurag Kashyap Bollywood’s biggest fraud and the filmmaker threw a glass of water on the veteran star

During the promotions of their film AK v/s AK, which streamed on Netflix and was directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, Anil Kapoor called Anurag Kashyap Bollywood’s biggest fraud and the filmmaker retaliated by throwing a glass of water on the actor’s face.

Vikramaditya Motwane, director of critically-acclaimed films such as Udaan, Lootera, Trapped, and Netflix Original Sacred Games, was excited about AK vs AK, a film he had been working on for seven years.

With Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap in the lead, the film [released on 24 December on Netflix, follows an accomplished director (Kashyap), who kidnaps the daughter of a veteran Bollywood actor (Kapoor) and shows the latter’s desperate search for his daughter (Sonam Kapoor) in real-time – with cameras rolling for 10 hours.

The actor’s quest in finding his missing daughter forms the premise, blurring the lines of real and reel.

Shot on several locations on the streets of Mumbai, there were many challenges shooting this film-within-a-film, says Motwane who wanted to make a masala, commercial movie and had this idea from a writer friend (Avinash Sampath based in Amsterdam) for seven years.

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The biggest challenge for him was finding the right pitch (for performance) for both Kapoor and Kashyap. “Now the film is AK vs AK but earlier, in 2015, it was AK vs SK with Shahid Kapoor. That time it didn’t happen because of date clashes. Anurag was on board from the beginning because I wanted to make it in my style and I always wanted a commercial star for my film, so I approached Anil,” said Motwane.