You can't bracket Vikramaditya Motwane — just when you think he has a knack for telling tender love stories like Lootera (2013), he surprises you with the gritty Trapped (2016). This time around, the filmmaker has shifted gears to a mockumentary with AK vs AK that sees Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap playing themselves.

Motwane says that he had been toying with the premise of the Netflix film over the past seven years. "One of my writer friends from Amsterdam, Abhinav Sampat sent this concept to me seven years ago. The idea was fantastic — a film director making a movie on a real-life kidnapping. Casting Anil and Anurag was a blessing; the movie works purely because of my access to them and their lives."