Directed by: Vikramaditya Motwane
Streaming on Netflix.
It's a kick-ass idea. Right from the trailers, and the marketing campaign - it got me super psyched. AK and AK playing an exaggerated version of the image each of them have, and that along with the premise of a survival thriller - it's bang on. The form has a lot of scope for doing weird, funky stuff. With this film, they still didn't go to inaccessible zones - probably because the form in itself is experimental.
I was laughing at a lot of instances, wherever Anil Kapoor was giving a dramatic performance - like how he begs the cops at the police station, it's making fun of the overdramatic acting we generally have in films. Anurag Kashyap's worry is if they've got a shot, when he knows that a car hit him. I'm sure that's how he would've made his initial films.
The ending twist felt like they wanted to balance, the AK vs AK thing. I would've loved it, if there was a new turn from there. I would've loved if they addressed that this is a film made by Vikramaditya Motwane for Netflix, and that he added these elements without Anurag Kashyap knowing. Improvisation. "Fuck the script". That would've been another level of meta.
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