AK vs AK
On: Netflix
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap
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Film buffs, you'll often notice, use the word meta to describe some works with such seriousness that you sense it must be something so deeply intellectual—like metaphysics, maybe—rendering it boring, perhaps. What does meta really mean? A self-aware exercise in self-referencing—just a film about a film, loaded with irony, for instance—a comment on itself.

Right from the get go, AK vs AK is therefore as much a clockwork thriller, with a receding timeline, like Anil Kapoor in the Indian 24, as Beyond Two Ferns: The Movie (2019) is a movie. Or Borat is a documentary. Or Curb Your Enthusiasm is a reality series.