Vikramaditya Motwane explains why his film ‘CTRL’ was a ‘time-consuming but fun geek-fest’
The screenlife film starring Ananya Panday and Vihaan Samat will be out on Netflix on October 4,
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Vikramaditya Motwane’s CTRL is a screenlife film – meaning that nearly everything that takes place in the narrative is unfolding on the screen of a cellphone or a laptop. The Hindi movie’s executive producers include the Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, who has previously bankrolled the screenlife movies Searching (2018), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) and Missing (2023). It was Bekmambetov who approached Motwane to make a screenfilm movie, Motwane told Scroll.
Motwane’s sixth feature explores the sinister side of technology through a heartbroken Gen Z influencer. Nella signs up for an artificial intelligence programme called CTRL to cope with a failed relationship, not realising that the app is taking charge of her life.
CTRL will be out on Netflix on October 4. The movie is based on a story by Avinash Sampath and has been written by Sampath and Motwane. CTRL stars Ananya Panday, Vihaan Samat and Aparshakti Khurana as the voice of the AI character Allen.
In an interview, 47-year-old Motwane spoke to Scroll about the efforts that went into creating Nella’s world and CTRL’s take on the social impact of AI. Here are edited excerpts.
How did you get associated with CTRL?
Timur Bekmambetov was the person who called me up and asked me whether I wanted to do a screenlife film. That film didn’t eventually didn’t...
