2020 saw the closure of theatres due to the Covid pandemic. As a result, this was the year that moviegoers were treated to a variety of digital releases. While some failed to entice, a few of them stood out. A film that comes in the latter category for many moviegoers is AK vs AK. It was a metafilm in which Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap both played exaggerated versions of themselves. The unconventional plot received a thumbs up from the audience. The performances were also acclaimed, of both Anil and Anurag. Readers will therefore be surprised to learn that Aamir Khan and even Akshay Kumar were considered for the actor’s role in AK vs. AK before Anil Kapoor was brought on board.
Director of AK vs. AK Vikramaditya Motwane shared amazing trivia in a lengthy chat with Mid-Day’s editor Mayank Shekhar. He claimed that Avinash Sampath, the film’s writer, had Aamir Khan in mind while writing it. When Vikramaditya joined the project, he asked him to abandon the idea because he believed Aamir would never agree to star in such a movie.
Then, since Akshay Kumar shares the initials AK with Aamir Khan, Vikramaditya Motwane and Avinash Sampath went to him. Interestingly, Vikramaditya then said that when Akshay heard the premise for the movie, he nearly threw them out of his office! There is Akshay Kumar, who we did contact. It was a really fascinating encounter — I mean, he didn’t quite say, “Get out of my office,” but it was close enough! Vikramaditya added.
He continued by praising Anurag’s acting skills, saying, “I think he is great. In fact, Anil Kapoor was a topic of conversation on the AK set. Anurag is amazing, in my opinion, especially in the final scene. You shed tears when bad things happen to him.”
In the movie AK vs. AK, an actor and a director engage in an in public brawl. As a result, the filmmaker is shunned. In an effort to gain favour again, he kidnaps the actor’s daughter, who is also an actor, and documents the actor as he attempts to save the girl’s child. On December 24, 2020, a direct Netflix release was made.