Anupama Chopra on CTRL | Movie Review | THR India 

And this particular red/black setting feels melancholic!

I think the red on black bg and no props/show pieces make it melancholic.

Film Companion was so lovely, homegrown, familiar, bright, sunny, and smart. This feels boring, washed out, western - not us. Feels like they’ve colonialised our film reporting :(

Hey chill out , space out the paid comments, else it seems sus😅

@@kd4345 Hahaha! I was gonna say the same thing. This paid account is commenting on every CTRL video with the same shit.

So true

I totally agreeeee

I had the same thought.

I'm amazed at your ability to say all of that with a straight face. 😂

What is meant by a dramatic role? Lots of crying and emotion? I don't think doing a dramatic role is the definition of acting chops. May be she should do a more subtle role. Call me Bae was a surprising hit for Amazon. Trended in 35 countries and is still trending in India. By OTT definitions, it is a success. Had cultural impact and has another season coming up. Considering shows headed by female actors in India rarely become hits unless say by an SLB, quite an achievement. As for playing roles that are close to herself, so far, it has worked for her. Many of the urban genz and millennial women feel represented in the roles she has been playing. So she is creating a niche audience for herself as she grows in her craft. Quite a clever thing to do unlike her other more privileged contemporaries like Jhanvi and Sara who have tried and failed at doing either the mass heroine or the roles that require greater acting chops. Her opportunity pipeline is justified as she is playing roles that tap into the anxieties and thrills of a new generation which she can quite relate to and represent. She is not doing roles that somebody else is suited to or can do better.

I loved Ananya in dream girl 2. Its made 200cr. Its a blockbuster of ananya.

Have you seen any of her movies? You seem to blindly hating bub because she's a nepo kid. I have seen her in Dream Girl 2 and this one now. She's a decent actress IMO.

@@rooner4206 There is clearly a difference in skill level between (i) actors who simply project their own personality on screen; and (ii) actors who convincingly play complex, challenging roles that are entirely unconnected to their own personality. You may be impressed with Ananya simply playing herself (category (i) actor) but you’ve set the bar shockingly low for actors then. It is entirely legitimate to suggest, as I have done above, that an actor is less accomplished if they are unable to play challenging roles and which are not simply caricatures of their own personality. Ananya has proved unable to achieve this in 5 years and that is the nub of my entirely valid criticism. You bizarrely scoff at ‘crying’ and ‘emotion’ yet these are incredibly challenging to perform convincingly on screen and are absolutely examples of ‘acting chops’. What do you mean by subtlety? Showing a dearth of expression and looking sombre? Subtlety is absolutely be a dramatic quality but whatever your definition, given Ananya’s roles hitherto are almost exclusively bubbly, loud or flamboyant, that adjective can hardly be applied to her or them. Ananya has only shown she can perform emotions well for a very narrow, limited template character that is effectively a minor variant on her own personality. If you think is a laudable achievement then that sets the bar extremely low for actors generally that they can just play themselves and that achieves equivalence with an actor who has given an outstanding performance in a demanding, challenging role e.g. Alia Bhatt in Gangubai. Regarding the pipeline, the point here is that she has been a working actor since 2019. It is now late 2024 and she’s only now given the ‘hit’ you cite: ‘Call Me Bae’. This was not a hit in the cinema halls by the way but OTT, which is not the same thing unfortunately. Viewers may be happy to watch an OTT show on a platform they've already paid a subscription fee for, but entirely unwilling to pay good money to go and see that same content in a cinema but let’s leave that to one side. The vast majority of actors are not so lucky to be given a constant stream of opportunities with the best directors and producers over many years to prove themselves until they finally deliver a hit. To see that her ‘hit’ is a product of just projecting her personality on screen suggests she is not really an actor but more of a 'social-media-influence' personality existing in the film space.

@@Neon-l5xAlia wasn’t good in gangubai

I think it's maybe the new channel's policy.. similar in their other videos

She is incredible so people with good taste and a brain do. Thank you

@@DaylightLDNincredible? You mean, an incredible biased hypocrite ? Lol

Me

maybe bcoz its hollywood reporter india