The film follows Deepak Singh (played with heartbreaking restraint by Rajkummar Rao), a honest Rajasthani constable who moves to Mumbai with his wife and infant daughter, chasing the "city of dreams." He doesn’t want a penthouse; he just wants to pay rent. But when tragedy strikes and he is blackmailed into a plot that spirals into murder, the city lights transform from a beacon into a blinding interrogator.
This is not the Mumbai of Slumdog Millionaire 's fairy tale or Bombay 's vibrant song-and-dance. This is the Mumbai of the invisible: the 65% of the city that lives in slums, where a single flickering tube light is a luxury, and the glittering towers of South Mumbai are a cruel, distant constellation. city lights indian movie
Or, in Deepak’s case, to turn them off forever. The film follows Deepak Singh (played with heartbreaking