New Delhi, June 14 -- When people hear that Steven Spielberg has made another film involving extraterrestrial life, they naturally expect a story about aliens.

After all, this is the director behind 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'ET the Extra-Terrestrial' and 'War of the Worlds'. Throughout his career, Spielberg has often used aliens to explore humanity's hopes, fears and sense of wonder.

But 'Disclosure Day' is different.

Yes, the film deals with the possibility of life beyond Earth. There are mysteries to unravel and questions about what might exist out there in the universe. Yet the more I watched, the more I realised that this is not really a film about aliens at all.

Instead, it is a film about empathy. More specifically,...