Ananya Panday is on a roll, and why shouldn’t she be? After receiving love and praise for her stellar performance in Call Me Bae, her new film CTRL has been released to good reviews from both fans and critics. The cyber-thriller is currently streaming on Netflix. In a recent interview, the CTRL actress revealed some interesting details about her personal life, one of which is that she gets her ‘nazar’ removed every week. Read on!
Ananya Panday on getting her nazar removed every week
In a conversation with Raunaq Rajani, in a video shared by Netflix India, Ananya said, “I remove my nazar every week. The help at my house does the mirchi (chilli) thing. You know, the mirchi thing? So, if it smells a lot, it means you have nazar. If the mirchi burns a lot, you have nazar. I don’t know the science behind it…”
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Not only does Ananya's house-help practice this, but her mom is also quite cautious about 'nazar'. Ananya shared, "My mom put two black dots behind my ears before I came here. Everyone thinks I don’t shower or that there’s something dirty behind my ears, but my mom keeps putting the dots again and again."
CTRL Storyline
Talking about CTRL, the movie also stars Vihaan Samat. After Call Me Bae, Ananya is working with Vihaan for the second time in CTRL. As noted in our review on Times Now, the storyline of CTRL goes: “Panday plays Nalini, aka Nella Awasthi, who has built a brand around her blissful relationship with her college boyfriend Joe Mascarenhas (Vihaan Samat). The happy bubble of the influencer couple bursts, and that too online, as Nella discovers Joe cheating on her. Angry and depressed, she chooses a way to eliminate him from her digital life through an AI (artificial intelligence) app called CTRL AI. Removing him from her pictures is easy enough, but what happens when Joe goes missing? Nella discovers darker secrets that he was hiding from her as she investigates his disappearance.”