Youâve got to hand it to Rajat Kapur.
Termed a master of âindie cinemaâ with films as varied as âAankhon Dekhi,â âMithyaâ and âKadakh,â Kapur has proved his mastery again with âRK/RKay.â
âKadakhâ showed that he could engage the audience even within one room. Now Kapur tries a meta-movie, a film within a film, and the concept is so unique that he has crowdfunded the film, just as he had done once before.
âRK/RKayâ tells the story of filmmaker RK (Kapur himself), who has made hit films and is now making a â60s love story between Mahbub (played by Kapur within the film that is within the film) and Gulabo (Mallika Sherawat), a quintessential â60s reel character. Playing the villain within the film is K.N. Singh (Ranvir Shorey), named after the evergreen baddie of that decade. He plays the spanner in the romantic works, and RK has scripted the film to end with Singh killing Mahbub.