![]() ![]() While Motwane is open about getting easy access to the top talents in the industry, he is dismissive of the idea of the movie being seen as an exercise in self-indulgence. “At the end of the day he (Anil Kapoor) is very secure, he is very ready to experiment.” ![]() “I didn’t know if he was going to say yes, no, throw the script at my face…”īut luckily for him Kapoor liked the pitch and came on board. What about Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan, did they ever come into the picture considering their fortuitous names? He laughs it off, “Of course it did, but I think Anil just worked better for us!”ĭespite having worked with Harshvardhan Kapoor for Bhavesh Joshi, Motwane claims he was a bit nervous about approaching a veteran actor like Anil Kapoor. So we decided to rewrite it with him in mind and pitched it and he said yes.” “In fact Anil fits the role better than what anybody else was doing it for the reasons that are in the film. It was then that he and writer Avinash Sampath (credited for both story and screenplay) decided to go ahead with Anil Kapoor. The director then got busy with Bhavesh Joshi (starring Harshvardhan Kapoor) and Sacred Games and it wasn’t until 2019 that he got to take a relook at the movie. “Shahid shot for it in 2015 and then we had a scheduling conflict,” Motwane admits. The movie which had been in the works since 2015 was initially shot with Shahid Kapoor in the lead. “So if he hadn’t done the film I don’t know if this film would have been there honestly.” Hopefully Anil Kapoor isn’t privy to that information considering he and Kashyap are engaged in a very reel ‘public spat’ while promoting the film.ĬT TALK: IN CONVERSATION WITH VIKRAMADITYA MOTWANE “Kashyap is literally the one person it is written for,” he confesses. As for signing on Kashyap for the lead, he laughingly alludes to the story being circulated by the Gangs of Wasseypur director that he was forced to sign on the dotted line by Motwane. In a Zoom conversation with City Times, the director says when the story was pitched to him he found it an exciting enough premise to sink his teeth into. ![]() In dark comedy AK vs AK Kashyap and Kapoor play themselves - a director and an actor engaged in a real-time drama when the former kidnaps the latter’s daughter (Sonam Kapoor in a cameo) and holds her to ransom while he films the ensuing chaos. ![]() But Vikramaditya Motwane ( Udaan, Sacred Games) isn’t bothered. When you have one of your filmmaker buddies, Anurag Kashyap, along with a veteran actor who can still pass for a superstar half his age like Anil Kapoor fronting your movie, chances are you might be accused of being self-indulgent. ![]()
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