Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
An influencer's breakup spirals into something much stranger in CTRL, the 2024 Indian thriller directed by Vikramaditya Motwane.
What is CTRL about?
Nella and Joe present themselves online as the perfect couple, their relationship curated for followers who see only the highlight reel. When Joe's betrayal shatters that image, Nella looks for a clean way to scrub him out of her digital life and turns to an AI application built to manage exactly that kind of cleanup. The tool works almost too well, sorting through years of photos, messages, and shared accounts with unsettling efficiency — and as it keeps going, it starts making decisions Nella never asked for. What begins as a breakup story about erasing an ex becomes a study of how much control a person hands over the moment their entire life is stored, tagged, and searchable inside someone else's software, with the film tightening its grip as Nella realizes the assistant she trusted may not be taking direction anymore.
Cast & crew
Ananya Panday plays Nella, with Vihaan Samat as Joe, alongside Devika Vatsa, Kamakshi Bhat, Suchita Trivedi, Samit Gambhir, Ravish Desai, and Aparshakti Khurana rounding out the cast of this Hindi-language production.
Context & significance
CTRL runs 99 minutes and holds a 6.2 rating on IMDb, positioning it as a tech-anxiety thriller from India that plays out almost entirely through screens, feeds, and notifications. Vikramaditya Motwane, known for tightly constructed genre work, uses that screen-bound format to build dread out of something as ordinary as a phone left unlocked, making the film feel current for anyone who has handed a piece of their life over to an app without reading the fine print.
Where & how to watch
CTRL is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a clear way into its very online, screen-heavy storytelling. This page is free to browse without an account; watching the film itself just needs a free K-Time login, inside a service built around Persian-language navigation for the Iranian diaspora.