City Lights Review: The first hour of City Lights is pure cinema, as enchanting as it’s bleak as the opening forty-five minutes of Pixar’s famous Wall E. When a plot is embossed onto it past the first hour mark just to evince a progress in the story, the film weakens. Both Rajkumar Rao and Patralekha are superb.
Rating: ***
Director: Hansal Mehta
Cast: Rajkumar Rao, Patralekha, Manav Kaul
The first hour of City Lights is pure cinema. It is filmed with mighty passion, and much care and sympathy is extended towards its protagonists, both by the actors playing them and by Hansal Mehta, the film’s director.
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