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    Reviews

    “A cerebral joyride”
    Karan Johar, filmmaker on REDIFF

    “Among the most charming and creative Indian independent films”
    J Hurtado, TWITCH

    ★★★★✩
    “You don’t really need a big star cast… you don’t even need a big budget to get the techniques of filmmaking bang on…”
    Allen O Brien, TIMES OF INDIA

    ★★★★✩
    “An outstanding experience that doesn’t come by too often out of Indian cinema!”
    Shakti Salgaokar, DNA

    ★★★
    “This film can reach out the young, urban, upwardly mobile, but lonely, disconnected souls living anywhere in the world, not just India.”
    Namrata Joshi, OUTLOOK

    “I was blown away!”
    Aseem Chhabra, MUMBAI MIRROR

    “Good Night Good Morning is brilliant!”
    Rohit Vats, IBN-LIVE

    ★★★✩✩
    “Watch it because it’s a smart film.”
    Shubha Shetty Saha, MIDDAY

    ★★★✩✩
    “A small gem of a movie.”
    Sonia Chopra, SIFY

    ★★★✩✩
    “A charming flirtation to watch.”
    Shalini Langer, INDIAN EXPRESS

    “Interesting, intelligent & innovative”
    Pragya Tiwari, TEHELKA

    “Beyond good. Original, engrossing and entertaining”
    Roshni Mulchandani, BOLLYSPICE

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    Synopsis

    ‘Good Night Good Morning’ is a black and white, split-screen, conversation film about two strangers sharing an all-night phone call on New Year's night.

    Writer-Director Sudhish Kamath attempts to discover good old-fashioned romance in a technology-driven mobile world as the boy Turiya, driving from New York to Philadelphia with buddies, calls the enigmatic girl staying alone in her hotel room, after a brief encounter at the bar earlier in the night.

    The boy has his baggage of an eight-year-old failed relationship and the girl has her own demons to fight. Scarred by unpleasant memories, she prefers to travel on New Year's Eve.

    Anonymity could be comforting and such a situation could lead to an almost romance as two strangers go through the eight stages of a relationship – The Icebreaker, The Honeymoon, The Reality Check, The Break-up, The Patch-up, The Confiding, The Great Friendship, The Killing Confusion - all over one phone conversation.

    As they get closer to each other over the phone, they find themselves miles apart geographically when the film ends and it is time for her to board her flight. Will they just let it be a night they would cherish for the rest of their lives or do they want more?

    Good Night | Good Morning, starring Manu Narayan (Bombay Dreams, The Love Guru, Quarter Life Crisis) and Seema Rahmani (Loins of Punjab, Sins and Missed Call) also features New York based theatre actor Vasanth Santosham (Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain), screenwriter and film critic Raja Sen and adman Abhishek D Shah.

    Shot in black and white as a tribute to the era of talkies of the fifties, the film set to a jazzy score by musicians from UK (Jazz composer Ray Guntrip and singer Tina May collaborated for the song ‘Out of the Blue), the US (Manu Narayan and his creative partner Radovan scored two songs for the film – All That’s Beautiful Must Die and Fire while Gregory Generet provided his versions of two popular jazz standards – Once You’ve Been In Love and Moon Dance) and India (Sudeep and Jerry came up with a new live version of Strangers in the Night) was met with rave reviews from leading film critics.

    The film was released under the PVR Director’s Rare banner on January 20, 2012.

    Festivals & Screenings

    Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI), Mumbai 2010 World Premiere
    South Asian Intl Film Festival, New York, 2010 Intl Premiere
    Goa Film Alliance-IFFI, Goa, 2010 Spl Screening
    Chennai Intl Film Festival, Chennai, 2010 Official Selection
    Habitat Film Festival, New Delhi, 2011 Official Selection
    Transilvania Intl Film Festival, Cluj, 2011 Official Selection, 3.97/5 Audience Barometer
    International Film Festival, Delhi, 2011 Official Selection
    Noordelijk Film Festival, Netherlands, 2011 Official Selection, 7.11/10 Audience Barometer
    Mumbai Film Mart, Mumbai 2011, Market Screening
    Film Bazaar, IFFI-Goa, 2011, Market Screening
    Saarang Film Festival, IIT-Madras, 2012, Official Selection, 7.7/10 Audience Barometer

    Theatrical Release, January 20, 2012 through PVR

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Archive For October 7th, 2004

Suderman goes nuts!

October 7, 2004 · by sudhishkamath

*Yaaawn*

I can feel it. (not the nuts, you dirty dirty dirty!)

Or rather I can’t feel it. Life.

That’s the thing about night shifts.

You get caught with yourself and that’s when you realise the complications that makes you.

But for the time we spend with ourselves, we are pretty simple people. All of us. Chilling. Hanging out. Laughing. Living. And feeling good! (No, good is NOT a woman, you dirty dirty dirty!)

But the moment you step out of the circle and confine to yourself, that’s when all the people inside you come out. One wants to watch Spiderman 2 and is cribbing that it has now gone out of the halls. The other wants to go to Pondicherry, like now … and spend time at the Park Guest House, sitting by the sea on that park bench with the wave spraying its love on your face or on second thoughts, maybe it is just lust. It just wants to touch the body! (Oh, what are you typing, you dirty dirty dirty!)

Another me realises I’m going nuts. Maybe cuz I get paid peanuts. So much that, that every time I sleep I see nuts. Everytime I dream, I see nuts. Everytime I look into the computer, I see nuts. Everytime I think, I see nuts. Everytime I pee, I see… well, nuts! (What are you typing, you dirty dirty dirty!)

And yet another person inside you is still wondering what went wrong in the last relationship. Another wants to give it another chance. And yet another smart cookie is reminding the other that the past is best left for the autobiography. Another one is listening to ‘Yeh Fizayen’ from Main Hoon Na on the discman and another is occasionally turning towards the TV to ensure he does not miss out on the Swades promos! And another is typing a blog while yet another wants to get into a nostalgic mood and start writing the next chapter of The Making of That Four Letter Word. And another wants to write a story for the paper because at least people are gonna read that at the end of the day. How many read a blog? Pick a number from one to ten.

So who’s my favourite me?

I guess its been Suderman, off late.

At least, he’s definitely better than the previous Evil Devil who just had one mission: To make sure God’s ass turns blue (And no, it’s not what you are thinking, you dirty dirty dirty!).

Well, the difference I think is that Evil Devil wanted to kick God’s ass for coming up with a flop script for life but Suderman is someone who made an entry to this planet because the world needed more heroes. There is so much depression setting into this world. The sentinels of evil are slipping in (that sure sounds like The Matrix, I agree) and people are getting too serious about themselves. They sit depressed, like the fate of the whole world depends on what they are gonna do next and brooding over what’s happened to them, much like how Evil Devil, my ex-personality used to. Now imagine what happens to the world when more and more people start going into their shell. Who’s gonna take care of the rest of the world? Who’s gonna bring happiness into the lives of people around? In their search for love, people are losing the lust for life. Yes, lust is the word.

Thus was born Suderman and his enterprise Just Lust Private Entertainment Unlimited, with the sole aim of bringing happiness into the lives of people.



Suderman realised that though God is the scriptwriter, it is you who is the director of your own life. It is upto you to decide how long you want your sad scene to last. Repetitive soppy scenes are for soap operas. If you want your life to be rocking motion picture, rock n roll, like now.

Lights. Camera. Action. (And no, rock is not just about that four letter word you are thinking of, you dirty dirty dirty!)

Post Script:

What have I written? What did I smoke? What did I drink? What did I eat?

Oh, yes, I remember. My box full of protien supplement: Peanuts, of course!

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