The recent release of ‘Ctrl’ on Netflix, starring Ananya Panday, seems to be going on with the new trend of portraying technology as the villain in our lives.
The movie, along with other movies such as ‘Kho Gaye Hum Kahan’ highlights the negative role of AIs and social media, often going overboard with the concept.
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This new genre usually revolves around city-dwelling people who have enough in their pockets to get by with ease.
Their experiences of the most common problems such as work pressure or breakups seems to be amplified ten-fold due to being deeply embedded in social media.
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Films like ‘Ctrl’ mostly tell us how social media damages our self-worth and breaches our privacy, often contributing to cybercrime and leading to mental health problems that manifest themselves in the ‘real’ world.
The Indian Film industry always had a variety of villains in its pockets ranging from strict parents to religiously motivated terrorists. Hence this new portrayal of AI and social media as villains feels like the latest addition to the group.
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This recent shift seen in Indian cinema makes us question the intentions of the filmmakers.
It makes us wonder whether the filmmakers actually want to warn us about the real dangers of social media or are they just filling the void of new-age villains by turning technology into one.
A better option for the filmmakers would be to portray the true dangers of the digital world that leave an impact on someone’s everyday life rather than going out of their way to over-villanize something that has become such an important aspect of our world.
