The film RK/RKay by director Rajat Kapoor, portrays a double role of a director and his character in the film within the film. When it is nearing its completion and is at the editing stage, the actor that is a partial self of the director Rajat Kapoor himself, vanishes. Even from the negatives. He runs away even from places where he was supposed to have a permanent linear existence.
He runs away to meet his love Gulabo played by Mallika Sherawat in the film. Mahboob, the character etched by Rajat Kapoor in the film, returns as a full-fledged ‘being’ who refuses to go back into the film and die. He refuses to follow the role even though he remains restricted within the lines written for his character by the director.
Mahboob is loved by the director RK’s family and friends more than RK himself who plays the director’s role within the film. The insistence on this tedious operational chain is the key to understanding how identities come as bundles.