Jay Weissberg Pirandello definitely would have approved of the spirit behind “RK/RKAY,” a small-scale identity comedy set in the film world about a writer-director-actor, embodied by writer-director-actor Rajat Kapoor, whose lead character walks out of his new picture and into the real world.
Complicating matters is that the character is also personified by the director, leading to a pleasing play on selfhood that ever-so-lightly toys with notions of free will and agency: Can a fictional character assume a persona separate from its creator?
More modestly budgeted than most of Kapoor’s other works (“Mithya,” “Kadakh”), this crowdfunded labor of love is unlikely to generate much buzz but will be appreciated by audiences looking for congenial.
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