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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 December 29th, 2004

What is it about women?

December 29, 2004 · by sudhishkamath

Yeah, I know. My blog is getting a little too heavy with gyaan. So I thought I’ll talk about something more er… lighter – Women!



I often wonder. More today than ever before.

What is it about women that attracts us towards them?

Let’s face it, as much as we might pretend to run after that elusive “hawt chick,” the truth is that we don’t really give a damn about statistics (they aren’t always vital) or biology (yeah, anatomy is interesting but not always) as much as we care about the chemistry (How I wish Sushmita Sen was my chemistry teacher too! *Sigh*) or physics (Love: Matter can neither be created nor destroyed).

Men like women. Period. Men do not need a reason. They find the quietest girl cute and even the most talkative girl sweet. They call the roundest girl ‘teddy’ and the littlest girl ‘baby.’

Contrary to their strongest belief, breasts aren’t always the things men look for in a girl. In fact, men even find flat-chested women hawt. Look at the ‘top’ most anorexic models, men drool over them as much as they drool over Pamela Andersons’!

Men like women who give them tons of attitude and they even like women who are actually angels that dropped by to make the world a better place.

Men like women irrespective of what clothes they wear and even when they aren’t really wearing much.

We like them when they are exactly the opposite of us. Or even when they are just like us.

Men simply like, they do not really discriminate on the basis of colour, height or sense of humour… or sex as long as the gender is right (we’re talking about straight men!).

Okie, men don’t like all women (hello, but women don’t like most men!) but then, men surely like more women than the number of men women actually like.

I’m pretty convinced it’s not just lust. Because lust has to do with physical appearance. And men know that at kissing distance, any girl looks hawt. But then when you kiss, your eyes are closed anyway (unless you are doing something like what Shahid and Kareena did, to make headlines).

So what is it about women that attracts us? What is it that excites us when we are with them? That wants to make us hold their soft tender hands. That makes us want to talk to them, spend time with them or just be with them. What is it?

Well, it’s mysterious. And I think THAT… I mean THAT mystery, THAT enigma that makes a woman, teases us, fascinates us, enlightens us and is what makes it exciting for us. It’s the process of figuring them out, the journey of discovery of the woman, girl and the baby in them that brings us great joy and a little sorrow but then… what is joy when you don’t know the meaning of sorrow.

Ha! There! I’m back to my Vanilla Sky “the-sweet-is-never-as-sweet-without-the-sour” line. So my question now is: What is it about us men that women find so attractive? He he! 😀

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