Looks like Ananya Panday is improving everyday as a craftsman. Loved her in Netflix’s Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, then followed by Call Me Bae and now CTRL. It is good to see movies being made on subjects like how one gets trapped in the internet web.
Netflix’s CTRL talks about new-age issues which youngsters today are facing like the harmful effects of social media and how we have become slaves to Instagram. Just hope this film becomes a wakeup call for all those who are looking for validation on social media. And why blame them when everything revolves around the number of followers you have on Instagram.
Companies too are hiring people on the basis of followers, often forgetting that most of them are fake and are bought with money. However, though the idea of CTRL was good, it lacked the depth required for a topic relevant in today’s world. Definitely it’s an idea that not only the youngsters can resonate with, but all age groups.
The film is about Nella (Ananya Panday) who is caught up in a world dominated by technology and social media. It is time we speak about the harmful effects of technology and how we have become slaves to them. We allow them to enter our lives and they start taking charge of us.
Brilliant idea by writer and director, Vikramaditya Motwane, but it could have been executed better. And I genuinely felt that this could have worked better in a series format because that would have allowed the characters to evolve. In the film, Nella (Ananya Panday) is a .