Ananya Panday’s film CTRL was dropped on Netflix today, October 4. The artificial intelligence and data privacy thriller stars Ananya Panday as Nalini ‘Nella’ Awasthi and Vihaan Samant as Joe Mascarenhas, and it has a runtime of 100 minutes.
The story starts with a social media influencer couple who have lakhs of followers and garner thousands of views per video by posting about their relationship for close to five years and ends with a crime and a massive coverup as the relationship goes sour.
CTRL is an interesting film with a unique and eye-opening concept. It shows how netizens have practically no control over their lives and that whatever they see and consequently do is not subconsciously what they want, too.
Director Vikramaditya Motwane crafts the thriller-drama with precision and total honesty. The cuts, edits, and graphics deserve special praise because they make CTRL a movie that is very different from the rest of the routine movies we usually see.
The real-life element of CTRL provides the film with most of its tongue-in-cheek moments. The job on the AI character is well done. It is cheesy, quirky, and flirty alright, but it brings a sense of uneasiness along with it which is very important from the story’s perspective.
