Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘CTRL’ is a well-made, well-acted thriller whose human moments work better than the overarching (and over-familiar) cautionary tale
CTRL works overall, but it does not carry a sense of revelation that makes you slap your forehead. Here’s the issue: We already know that we are controlled by technology. We already know that Big Brother is watching us on all the e-equipment we use. The rest of this review may contain spoilers…
Ananya Panday plays Nella and Vihaan Samat plays Joe, and they meet-cute at college and become a couple. Sorry: they become an influencer couple. Their every move is recorded as a photo or a video or a reel and put up on social media, and this makes you wonder if this relationship is real or… virtual. Working from a story by Avinash Sampath, Vikramaditya Motwane shows us the first five years of Nella and Joe almost entirely through screens. The immersive visual effects in CTRL are as smooth as silk. We seem to be watching this couple on our devices. We seem to be among their many followers typing out comments with emojis. And when they break up (this is in the trailer), we are among the people watching this mess like an accident we cannot look away from. The point is partly about Joe and Nella’s addiction to the virtual world, and partly about our own addiction to the virtual world populated by the likes of Joe and Nella.
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