City Lights

Cast:  Rajkummar Rao,Patralekha,Manav Kaul 
Director: Hansal Mehta     
Genre: Drama, Thriller


A drama which wont waste your bucks! Keeping expectations low will help!


You may look forward to:

• The movie is essentially a drama around the same old cliche background of the many hardships of poor country men, though with slight twists here and there. Hence, the second half of the movie reaps it while the first half remains more of a build up and regular mess around bigger cities Vs simple country side people
• Rajkummar Rao, does very careful selections of his movies. He knows where he suits the best and he can deliver his best. He does a real good job and perfectly fits into a Gujrati character, as well a desperate husband to safe guard his family. His best scene was that of the drunken husband addressing his wife, kudos! :)
• We have a debutant Patralekha in this movie. She is believably a small town female as per the role, portraying a demure, vulnerable character with a desperation to survive poor conditions. She has a meaty role in here with enough opportunities to showcase. Irrelevant to the factor that she happens to be my cousin, she does a decent job. Cheers! :)
• I like the nature of roles Manav Kaul chooses for self. Its different every time. Good portraiture
• Music of the movie isnt bad. One track-Muskuraane ki wajeh, in fact is very melodious and soothing to the ears

What you can sleep over:

The length of the movie Vs the content of the movie was not very proportionate. Its a drama in the end, adding some more content to it on you own will, wont do any harm :)



The dampeners you should be aware of:

• Story line is pretty much cliche, nothing we haven't seen before, barring one new interesting profession which as well sinks in real quick
• I still wonder why the climax had to be like this, it didn't exactly require to be tragic

My Rating: 3/5