I liked the concept they tried to explore. I do not think they were able to do justice to it in the 2 hours. The first half was set up well. In the second half I felt they were trying to pull in strings of various threads and trying to bind it together, make it coherent. A lot of 'oh no shit is going downhill, the plain-jane hero needs to save the world' movies fall prey to this.

I hope…

The movie is one of the finest I’ve seen out of India.

It tells several human stories, intertwined with the soothing hustle and bustle of the city. A longing for a connection, a dawning realization that the future has come knocking and decisions need making, and a circumstantial eviction from a place considered home.

One’s relation with a mega-city is quite complex. All We Imagine As Light helps me feel it much more vividly than Chunking Express or even Taipei…