SpaceX initiated a mission to retrieve astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams from the ISS following safety concerns with their Boeing spacecraft. Nasa’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov are tasked with bringing them back early next year. This mission extends Wilmore and Williams’ stay in space to over eight months.
Ananya Panday is now gearing up for Vikramaditya Motwane’s cyber-thriller, CTRL. Ananya has now got candid about how the SOTY2 actress ‘cringe’ at herself ‘all the time’, however, she has gotten better in recent times. Talking about her past work, the Call Me Bae star admitted that she couldn’t hear her voice back then.
During her new interview with Humans of Bombay, Ananya Panday was asked to comment on whether she has ever felt ‘cringe’ after watching her interviews, movies or any past work.
Ananya admitted, “I cringe at myself all the time. I think I have gotten better looking at myself on screen but when I started out even if someone was watching a video of me on their phone, I would run out of the room. Like I couldn’t hear my own voice.”
The CTRL actress added that she couldn’t look at herself on screen. So much so that Ananya expressed that she wouldn’t want to see people watching her work. The Call Me Bae star shared that she would freak out back then, adding that things have been better these days.
In an earlier interview with India Today, Ananya Panday opened up about whether she gives importance to people’s opinions about her. The Pati Patni Aur Woh actress shared that she is taking risks in her career and that her self-worth depends on how people perceive her work. The young actress clarified that she isn’t taking their two cents seriously in her personal life.
Ananya’s upcoming film, CTRL, also stars Mismatched actor Vihaan Samat in the lead role. It will be released on Netflix on October 4, 2024. It is co-produced by Nikhil Dwivedi and Arya A Menon. This is to note that the makers of CTRL recently released the trailer of the Ananya-starrer on YouTube.
In the trailer, Ananya as Nella can be seen creating an account on an artificial intelligence application called CTRL. Her character is shown giving away control of her life to a digital identity that erases her beau Joe from real life.
Mismatched actor Vihaan Samat is playing the role of Joe in the upcoming film. The trailer also features cameos of YouTubers Rohan Joshi and Tanmay Bhat.
On the work front, after her big debut in 2019, Ananya Panday was seen in Pati Patni Aur Woh the same year. Apart from Ananya, the 2019 film starred Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar in the lead roles. The actress then worked opposite Ishaan Khatter in Khaali Peeli in 2020.
In 2022, Ananya was featured in Shakun Batra’s directorial venture, Gehraaiyaan. It co-starred Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Dhairya Karwa as the leads. She later worked in South star Vijay Devarakonda’s film, Liger, which was simultaneously released in Telugu.
Ananya then worked in a coming-of-age-buddy-drama, Kho Gaye Hum Kahan in 2023, also starring Adarsh Gourav and Siddhant Chaturvedi as the leads.
The actress made her digital debut with Karan Johar’s produced comedy-drama, Call Me Bae this year. It was premiered on Amazon Prime Video on September 6, 2024. The series will be renewed for a second season.
Born to Chunky Panday and Bhavana Pandey, Ananya Panday started her career with Karan Johar’s 2019 film, Student of the Year 2. It also starred Tiger Shroff and then newcomer Tara Sutaria in the lead roles.
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IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack has stirred several controversies ever since its release, including claims of whitewashing the terrorists’ religion and factual inaccuracies. Everyone associated with this Netflix series has vehemently denied all allegations and director Anubav Sinha has sung a similar lullaby while speaking to Mukesh Chhabra.
The seasoned filmmaker was asked to share his opinion on the loud reception IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack received it, to which Anubhav said, “It’s confusing. Ek taraf mohabbat hai, aur ek taraf gobar hai (On one side there is a lot of love, and on the other, there is crap).” He was then prodded about whether he thinks he should be ‘responsible’ for the negativity and controversy.
Sinha, addressing this, said it straight: “No, I don’t take myself that seriously. I just want to do my job with absolute sincerity and hard work. I wouldn’t have taken this on had I not been in love with the story. I loved it; that’s why I did it. All that remains is hard work, and the rest is up to the universe. The universe is both destructive and constructive.”
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Not to forget, as much as IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack received backlash, it was critically praised in even larger numbers. A quick run-through, the entire fiasco kicked off on social media with boycott calls demanding the name change of the hijackers from Shankar and Bhola to their original names. Allegations were made against the film IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack for trying to protect the terrorists who belonged to a certain community.
This Netflix series is based on the book Flight Into Fear: The Captain’s Story by Devi Sharan and Srinjoy Chowdhury and is a cinematic retelling of the December 24, 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines IC-814 aircraft by five terrorists. Their names were Ibrahim Athar, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Zahoor Ibrahim, Shahid Akhter, and Sayed Shakir, but all of them reportedly used code names during the hijack.
Following the uproar and a summons notice from the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Netflix added a disclaimer with all that needed clarification. This move, coupled with roaring positive reviews, settled the boiling controversial pot.
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