Citylights -2014-

Learn about the director's personal connection to the story in this interview from Open Magazine

Highly recommended for mature audiences. A landmark in 21st-century Hindi parallel cinema. citylights -2014-

However, commercially, the film was a sleeper hit. It did not cross the ₹20 crore net mark in India, but it found its audience through word-of-mouth and later, through streaming and satellite rights. It proved that a film without a star, without a dance number in Switzerland, and without a happy ending could still find a home in the hearts of the middle class—perhaps because the middle class sees their own reflection in Deepak’s exhausted face. Learn about the director's personal connection to the