Nella and Joe are the perfect influencer couple. But when he cheats on her, she turns to an AI app to erase him from her life — until it takes control.
Direction
Motwane weaponizes screenlife format until you forget it's a movie.
Acting
Panday's face becomes the entire canvas—devastating in close-up.
Editing
Every click, scroll, and typing indicator builds unbearable tension.
Director
Vikramaditya Motwane
Ananya Panday
Nalini "Nella" Awasthi
Vihaan Samat
Joe Mascarenhas
Aparshakti Khurana
Allen (voice)
Devika Vatsa
Bina
Kamakshi Bhat
Shonali
Samit Gambhir
Manish Hirani
Ravish Desai
Aryan K.
Suchita Trivedi
Nella's Mother
Vinod Kapoor
Nella's Father
Yashraj Mukhate
Himself
Tanmay Bhat
Himself
Rohan Joshi
Himself
Nishant Tanwar
Himself
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CTRL directly confronts India's exploding influencer economy, where Mumbai's content houses churn out manufactured intimacy for brand deals.
The film's entire runtime occurs on screens—Motwane studied Unfriended and Searching but wanted the horror to feel domestic, not genre.
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