CTRL is an Indian Hindi-language cyber thriller film released on 4th October on Netflix. It is directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and produced by Nikhil Dwivedi and Arya Menon under the banners of Saffron Magicworks and Andolan Films. This film features Ananya Panday and Vihaan Samat in the leading roles.
CTRL is a cyber-thriller that revolves around the character of Nella portrayed by Ananya Pandey who signs up on a website or app called CTRL and surrenders her life to an AI assistant named Allen, to remove her digital footprint with her boyfriend after her breakup with him. The intricating storyline of this movie has raised the excitement level and the viewers want to know whether the movie will have a sequel or not.
Will CTRL have a sequel?
Speaking on making a sequel movie of CTRL, Vikramaditya Motwane said, “Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t buy into a sequel. I think in Nella’s case, she’s doomed. She’s gone down that rabbit hole again.”
The filmmaker has also revealed that initially the end of the movie was planned to be different. He shared that at first, he considered a different ending for CTRL, where Nella seeks revenge. But this end was not approved as he and his team felt that this end won’t align with the storyline.
Vikramaditya shared his experience of making CTRL. He said, “It took a lot of research. A lot of hours of watching, a lot of hours wasted watching, on the internet about influencers, comments, how things work. I think the best thing I’ve done is to get Sumukhi Suresh to write the dialogues and Ananya Panday to star in it, because they’re more in it than I am. It was a very collaborative effort. Knowing that I don’t want to be the one in his 40s telling 20-year-olds how to work the internet. I don’t know it, so I’m going to get people.”
“You don't realise it, but every single thing has to be created on that desktop. We had to create the operating system, new versions of Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, whatever. Not only that, you've to put all the videos inside, all the captions, all the numbers, all the comments. Every single suggestion has to be created and vetted by legal. All that stuff is very time-consuming and a lot of hard work. And you want it to be unique, you want it to be different. You don't want it to be like anything else done before,” he further added.