CityLights Movie Review

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Rating:2.5/5 Review By:Rohit Khilnani Site:India Today

Rajkumar delivers a good performance once again. Each time he is suffering, you feel for him. Patralekha too puts in her heart and it shows. Music by Bhatt's favorite Jeet Ganguly is average this time and there are way too many songs that don't help the plot. CityLights is a very important film, it gives us a reality check. Mumbai is known to be the city of dreams but it does have a big share of shattered dreams too. It's a good one but from the team of Shahid and with Mahesh Bhatt backing the project, we expected more.

Rating:3.5/5 Review By:Mohar Basu Site:Koimoi

Citylights is fashioned as an old wine in a new bottle as director Hansal Mehta seamlessly beaded together a heart wrenching story with a crime drama. Keeping intact the milieu of Mumbai in the film, the pace and packaging is all done to perfection. Though I have my reservations about the half baked climax, which lacks both thrill and conviction, the film is true to the word overwhelming in every sense of the term. It will be crime to cinema to miss Rajkumar’s best work till date. Citylights might have its flaws but is overall a film that must be watched. A befitting commentary on social exploitation, the film’s humane touch and the expressive treatment catapults it to a different league.

Rating:3.5/5 Review By:Rahul Desai Site:Mumbai Mirror

The original film, with its poetic voiceover and bookended flashbacks, has a more resounding climax; Citylights stutters with sentimentality, but eventually blacks out before its too late. Much like its conflicted protagonists. Rightly so, the primary screenplay credit is attributed to Sean Ellis. He would agree that Mehta's unyielding portrait is an impassioned recreation of his vision. Moreover, Citylights' frighteningly carnivorous undertow singularly restores Mumbai's reputation as India's most absolute cinematic city.