Vikramaditya Motwane is one of the few Indian filmmakers who've hopped as many genres in their filmography. He debuted with Udaan (2010), a coming-of-age film, did a romantic drama in Lootera (2013), followed it up with an escape thriller Trapped (2016), and a vigilante movie, Bhavesh Joshi Superhero (2018). His releases on streaming haven't been any less diverse – a crime thriller in Sacred Games, a fact-fiction black comedy in AK vs AK (2020), and a period workplace drama in Jubilee (2023).
It's no surprise then that his new movie, CTRL , is Hindi cinema's maiden screenlife thriller. (Also Read – Ananya Panday on CTRL, Call Me Bae, Kho Gaye Hum Kahan: So happy scripts on social media, data leak are being written ) Vikramaditya on his diverse filmography “Maybe that also comes from rebelling against typecasting, which started happening a little bit after Udaan,” Vikramaditya says in an exclusive interview. “People started offering me family films or films with kids.
And I was like, ‘Nahi yaar, nahi karna hai (No, don't want to do this).' Once you've rebelled against that and said I'm going to make a love story (Lootera), then you want to keep doing that all your life,” he adds. He also attributes the genre-hopping to his love for all kinds of cinema and storytelling.
“I just love every kind of movie – Hindi commercial movies, art films, genre films – I'm a big fan of experimental films and series. So when you're a fan of all kinds of cinema, then you also.