there are two kinds of films one that comforts the jolted and the other that jolts the comforted i have made both these kinds of films over the last fortyodd years films like naam dil hai ki maanta nahin aashiqui raaz murder and jannat comforted the jolted they brought colour and excitement into weary livesalso read citylights will bring back legacy of my cinema mahesh bhatt on the other hand the films that were born out of the dark night of my soul likearth saaransh daddy janamand zakhm and which defined my brand tore into the hearts of cinema goers with ferocity and made them experience reality like never before at one time the silver screen was a place where human truths were revealed masters like bimal roy guru dutt and satyajit ray used this space to tell their tales and connect with the audiences using these truths as glue to cement people of different classes together that was the golden age of indian cinema which saw movies like do bigha zameen pyaasa pather panchali and many more classics by these masters those were the times when cinema helped people to connect with real issues and through that to feel less lonely and isolated read bollywood backs citylights however for a long time now the screen has been used as a masking device behind which human beings hide from their pain people go to see movies in order to numb themselves from harsher reality and to escape from their own inner silence by drowning themselves in noise but those who aspire to escape from the pain of life land up escaping life altogether enduring joy only comes from ploughing through the heart of painland a hall full of people sharing human pain connect far deeper with each other than those sharing those manufactured images of other peoples joy in fact they end up feeling more isolated than ever before hansal mehtas citylights is a film that belongs to the category of films which put truths on the table and dares to touch you with reality rather than fantasy it is not a comforting film it rips into your apathy and forces you to look at those invisible people on whose shoulders the very core of the city rides with new eyes in this age when we know so much yet feel so little and where amusing ourselves to death has become our dharma this moving love story of those extraordinary ordinary people who come from the heartland of india to cities just so that they may survive manages to reconnect one to those emotional wells within which we have wilfully walled up for all those people who thought that i had stopped making my brand of films here is one for the soul citylights produced by vishesh films releases today by mahesh bhattwatch citylights muskurane arijit singh full song 2014