AK vs AK Ending Explained [SPOILER!]

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AK vs AK Plot Summary

The film starts from the camera of an aspiring filmmaker, Yogita, who is filming Anurag Kashyap for a documentary.[b] Kashyap and Anil Kapoor are interviewed by Sucharita Tyagi for a MAMI event. After an audience member asks if the director or the actor is more important, they start arguing about the question and insulting each other’s careers, eventually culminating in Kashyap throwing a glass of water in Kapoor’s face. This becomes a major scandal for Kashyap and causes other film personalities to cut ties with him and back out of his projects. As he sits in his bedroom enraged, Yogita says that she has an idea.

Later, on Christmas Eve and Kapoor’s birthday, Kashyap goes to his set along with Yogita and tries to pitch him a new story about a mad director who kidnaps the daughter of an aging actor, who has to find her. Kapoor is initially uninterested, but realises that his daughter, Sonam, has actually been abducted by Kashyap, who wants to capture his real actions and emotions as he searches for her. Kashyap tells him that he has ten hours (until sunrise the next day) to find her and sets three rules: he can’t get the police or anyone else involved, all his phone calls must be on speakerphone, and that Yogita’s camera must stay on.

Kapoor first tries going to the police, but Kashyap and Yogita catch up and convince them it is just a rehearsal for their film. Kapoor is still somewhat unconvinced that Sonam was actually kidnapped, so Kashyap shows a live feed of her being held by a masked man with a knife. After talking to his son Harshvardhan, Kapoor finds out through her driver that she was last seen at the hotel Crescent. At the hotel, he bribes the manager with an endorsement to see the CCTV footage, and spots the getaway driver’s face. He searches for him on the streets of Mumbai with little success. Kapoor goes home and stealthily texts Harshvardhan the truth, but his confused reaction alerts Kashyap and causes him to confront Kapoor upstairs. As they exchange blows, the masked man cuts Sonam’s finger off, so Kapoor relents. Eventually, someone directs him to a Christmas celebration to find the driver, named Javed. Kapoor finds him through the camera’s viewfinder and chases him through and around Mumbai Central, losing him when he gets hit by a car. A bloodied Kapoor breaks down in front of the camera, regretting not making time for his family and begging Yogita for any information. Kashyap, having lost them earlier due to his asthma, finally arrives to taunt Kapoor and make him continue. At another Christmas celebration, Kapoor has to dance for the crowd until someone tells him where Javed lives, where they finally capture him.

Javed directs them to where he was told to take Sonam, but Kashyap insists they are not going to the right place. They arrive at what turns out to be Kashyap’s house, and another call confirms that Sonam is in his DVD room. When they get in, not only is Sonam gone, but Kashyap’s parents have also been kidnapped. After a struggle between the trio, Kashyap reveals the original site he had planned and they rush to it as time runs out. A mysterious masked man filming with another camera shows up, but they don’t find anyone else there as the sun rises. Although Kashyap repeatedly claims that these events were not in his script, Kapoor discovers a copy and forces him to read it, which states that Kashyap intentionally diverted him, then would take a gun out from his bag and force Kapoor to kill either of themselves. Kapoor interrogates an increasingly agitated Kashyap with the aforementioned gun and accidentally shoots him.

The perspective shifts to a more standard one as Kapoor and Yogita drive Kashyap to the hospital. Sonam and Kashyap’s parents are actually found in the basement of Kashyap’s home, and Kashyap is to be convicted for their kidnapping. As he lays in his hospital bed, Kapoor reveals that he was the actual mastermind behind everything: angered at Kashyap’s comments, he convinced Yogita after the panel show to help frame Kashyap in exchange for an opportunity to break into the industry and conspired alongside his family to make most of the dramatic turns happen, with Harshvardhan having purposely hit him with the car.

The Ending

Months later, the resulting film wins Yogita, credited as the director, and Kapoor Filmfare Awards, while a deranged Kashyap plots vengeance from a mental asylum.

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