Lose Control

Vikramaditya Motwane examines the perils of digital dependence in his screenlife thriller Ctrl

- Suhani Singh

Vikramaditya Motwane has a thing for loners. In Trapped, he captured the desperation of a man stuck in a highrise apartment. Bhavesh Joshi Superhero was about a vigilante who cuts himself off by hiding at an abandoned site. In his latest, Ctrl [streaming on Netflix], an influencer (Ananya Panday) unknowingly cedes control of her life to an app and has an isolated existence. Is Ctrl then the conclusion of a trilogy? “If anything, it’d be start of a ‘Ctrl Alt Del’ trilogy,” he says with a laugh. “We have a story for ‘Alt’. We haven’t come to ‘Del’ as yet.”