CITYLIGHT

CITYLIGHT

Directed by      : `         Hansal Mehta                           Produced by    :           Mukesh Bhatt

Screenplay by  :           Ritesh Shah                              Based on          :           Metro Manila

Starring                        :           Rajkummar Rao                       Songs:              :           Jeet Ganguly

Background score:       Raju Singh                               Cinematography:         Dev Agarwal

Edited by         :           Apurva Asrani                         Production Company: Vishesh Films

Distributed by  :           Fox Star Studios                       Release dates   :           30 May 2014

Running time   :           126 minutes                             Country           :           India

Language         :           Hindi                                       Budget             :           INR 7 crore (US$1.1 million)

Box office       :           INR 36 crore (US$5.7 million)

5 Feb 2015

Today I saw a Hindi movie City light. This is very good movie which put light on lots of problems in India together. In the beginning of this movie it is beautifully shows that a middle class person living in rural area of somewhere in India faces which type of problem in earning money & loose his property or business very easily on some very basic issues.

When he lost hope from all directions then he decided to go to some big cities in search of a good life. But when he goes to city then he saw that unemployment is much more than his village in city.  When he does not get job from anywhere, than his wife decided to go for job & she got a job in a bear bar. In this scene first message is clear that to spend a normal life in urban area this is become mandatory for both husband & wife to do some work. But his wife when go to the interview in bear bar then that scene was unforgettable for me. The interviewer ask her to remove her Dupatta, the girl was stunned and shocked. She remained silent. But her silence explains everything, her past, present, status in society; self-respect etc. there will be thousands of questions will be coming in her mind.  & then that person asks her to dance with smile. How could she do this? This requires lots of courage but she needs money because her daughter was hungry. Her husband was not getting job.  Very emotional scene was this.

The next scene I like in this movie was when she was returning to her house with lots of money. What she was thinking at that time? I lost everything husband, self-respect & everything & then what I get this money. But could I buy this all things from this money? But this also shows by her silence & her silence explains everything.

Apart from this there were lots of unforgettable scene is this movie when they reach in Mumbai & one person give them a flat on rent & get 10000 Rupees then when her husband go outside to complete all documentation formality then in this time she clean home & treating it as her home. This scene remind me about my mom when we come in Indore & purchase a new flat & my mom was removing dust of that flat with an excitement then a very different kind of smile I was seeing on my mom face. Same thing I can see in that movie. This happiness was very heart touching.

There were lots of another incidents were also present in that movie which was also unforgettable.