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Uday Bhatia

Mint Lounge

Uday Bhatia is Film Editor with Mint Lounge in Mumbai. He was previously with Time Out Delhi and The Sunday Guardian. His work has appeared in GQ, The Caravan, Indian Quarterly and other publications.

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CTRL

Thriller, Drama (Hindi)

Ananya Panday drives paranoid thriller

Sat, October 5 2024

Vikramaditya Motwane's film about creeping AI is also a paranoid thriller for an increasingly digital India

Well into CTRL, we know the film’s protagonist only as Nella. While it’s certainly an Ananya Panday character name (past ones have been Tia, Tanya, Ahana and Bella), I did wonder if it was given by her Delhi Punjabi parents. But then we hear her father’s voice from offscreen calling: “Nalini”. And a little piece clicked into place: an assumed name, a username, a handle, in a film about unstable online identities.

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