Ananya Panday reveals cousin Alanna Panday, husband Ivor McCray were her ‘close-to-home reference’ for CTRL

NEW DELHI, OCT 10 (ONLINE) Ananya Panday and Vihaan Samat play a content creator couple in Vikramaditya Motwane’s new screenlife thriller CTRL, who document their relationship on YouTube.
Ananya Panday has been getting rave reviews for her performance in CTRL. In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, the actor revealed who were her influences for playing a content creator in Vikramaditya Motwane’s screnlife thriller. (Also Read – Ananya Panday on CTRL, Call Me Bae, Kho Gaye Hum Kahan: So happy scripts on social media, data leak are being written)

Ananya Panday reveals cousin Alanna Panday and her husband Ivor McCray were her influences for CTRL
Ananya Panday reveals cousin Alanna Panday and her husband Ivor McCray were her influences for CTRL

What Ananya said
“I see a lot of influencers, but my cousin Alanna and her husband are couple bloggers. They make vlogs about everything – from when they met, to their wedding, to her pregnancy, and even her journey with their baby. They’ve covered it all on their YouTube channel. Watching them was a close-to-home reference, helping me understand the sacrifices required to be a public figure, especially when your life is exposed even more than an actor’s,” said Ananya.

Alanna Panday is the daughter of Chikki Panday, the brother of Ananya’s father and actor Chunky Panday. She’s a content creator and a social media influencer who documents her life online with her husband, Ivor McCray. They resort to creative ways to announce their life’s milestones, including their wedding and recently becoming parents to a baby boy, whom they named River. Alanna also made her streaming debut recently as part of Prime Video India’s reality show on social media influencers, The Tribe, produced by Dharmatic Entertainment, the digital wing of Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.

CTRL is a screenlife thriller on the lines of Searching, Missing, and C U Soon. Directed by Vikramaditya and co-produced by his Andolan Films and Nikhil Dwivedi’s Safron Magicworks, it dropped on Netflix India earlier this month. The movie revolves around a content creator couple, played by Ananya and Vihaan Samat. When Ananya’s Nella finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her, she seeks help from her Artificial Intelligence assistant to delete him from her digital memories. However, the plot soon turns into a larger, graver thriller. The film is co-written by Vikramaditya and Avinash Sampath, with dialogues by Sumukhi Suresh. Ananya also recently appeared in the Prime Video India show Call Me Bae, backed by Dharmatic Entertainment.