Director Vikramaditya Motwane has a penchant for the usual. He taps into everyday, innocuous situations to make films that expose the oft-ignored but equally relevant tale. He did it with Udaan by examining a complicated father-son relationship.
He did it again with Sacred Games, laying bare the vulnerablity of a cop and the complexity of evil. He showed the human side of a thief in Lootera. Now, he has stayed true to form with his new OTT film, CTRL, which looks at how technology is gradually transforming from a tool to a nemesis.
Excerpts from an interview: The intention behind the thriller is to show how we have been living our lives lately. And, doing it through the medium of a laptop seemed like an interesting way of telling the story. I wanted to show how we end up getting controlled by the very things we thought we had control over.
Of course, when we were writing it in 2020, it felt futuristic. We didn’t realise that developments in AI would be this fast. So now, when the show is releasing, it has become a sort of documentary.
There is a lot of talk about why people share personal content online; whether it is simply for the joy of sharing, or if they do it for profit. CTRL is a way of bringing that conversation to the forefront, but in the guise of a fun, exciting thriller. The reason I cast Ananya was because I loved her in Gehraiyaan.
She was phenomenal. The discussion about nepo-kids always getting a chance is a usual topic of discussion, and it is wonderful whe.
