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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 February 22nd, 2005

Budday Bakra!

February 22, 2005 · by sudhishkamath

Today is my friend Abhishek’s budday. Got him a website for his dream company Be Positive for a present. We just called him five minutes before his budday was over that he can collect his present from www.ibepositive.com.

(Try that link only if you have a decent broadband connection, it has a video a friend and I made for him!)

Anyways, our story starts on the day after Valentine’s day…

Two women Richa and Avantika decide to join the Orkut network online. Both, Abhishek and me are part of the network.

Richa is committed… and Avantika is single but a more private person… she hasnt put up her pic on Orkut. Instead, she’s put a movie poster of Amelie.

Richa is avantika’s friend. So avantika being a Stella Maris student joins the college community, only to find Abhishek there!

Abhishek has enrolled for the community cuz that’s his idea of a pick-up line. Women would find that funny, he said. And I always smirked at him.

But guess what, Avantika msgs him: “Lol… what did you do in Stella? No wonder you are so familiar!”

(Stella maris is a women’s college: Pliss Note!)

So our man being the dog on heat that he is, scraps back next moment, she msgs back and he msgs and so on…till he suspects that I made her up!!!

And then figures that it cant be a prank cuz Avantika has hit it off with some bong dude called Anirvan who has also msged her and they are bonding in bengali in her scrapbook. But Abhishek has already ruined his chances with her with a smartass commentin her book, sayin that chatting with fictional women is a waste of his time.

Meanwhile, yours truly also started hitting on Avantika online. On her Orkut scrapbook.

Avantika does not give him too much importance and scraps me after that. By now our man abhi knows he made a mistake by suspecting foulplay in what was actually act of God!! A girl had visited his profile all by herself and he ruined it with his smart ass speculation!

Anywayz, going thru their scrap-pages he figures that Richa is coming from bangalore to madras for the weekend. So he goes thru all of richa’s scraps and finds out richa has a boyfriend and that his name is monty and he has a broken leg! Meanwhile, avantika stops scrapping abhishek.

Eleven p.m. Saturday night…

Abhishek, me and sravan are sitting at the lobby of Residency Towers, our usual hangout. We are leching at women as usual as we do on Saturday nights…

Cut to: Half an hour before that!

Thirteen psychotic friends are waiting with ‘Avantika’…a Bipasha Basu look alike. They have a cake for his budday surprise now…

I brief Anu, the girl chosen to play avantika for the night: Tell her to walk around the lobby talkin on the fone…and make eye contact with abhishek three times and then exchange pleasantries after sayin that she thot it was him, (he has his pics up in the photo album on Orkut) and then later ask if we guys want to join her and her friends… Abhishek mite hesitate but I wud drag him along inside to the place where everyones waiting.

But, that WAS the plan.

What REALLY happened was…

‘Avantika’ walked around with her phone and made eye contact two times and abhishek sees her and says… “I think that is avantika!!”

We are shocked…so we ask him how he know she says he chatted with her!!

And damn! we dint know! he he!

But we are smart enuff to know that none of us know what avantika looks like. So he’s just joking.

He laughs: Damn, i thot i had u guys for a coupla minutes.

Thirty seconds later…

The girl walks up to him and says: Abhishek right?

We are tryin so hard not to laugh! Talk about casting!!

His jaw dropped, with his stud voice modulation he said: yeah..and you?

She said: Avantika

And he excitedly tells her: I was just telling them u could be avantika!

I get up and introduce myself as Sudhish, the other guy who scrapped her.

She says: You guys are crazy…and soon, she asks if we wanna join her…Abhishek pounces on the offer.

Of course, he says.

And turns to the other pretty girl next to avantika and says: You must be Richa?

She says no…Im shivani (we cast her as herself cuz we thot he remembered wat richa looks like!)

Shivani adds: Richa is upstairs at the pub with monty and the all knowing abhishek goes: Oh, Monty’s also here?

Abhishek: How is his leg now?

we are tryin sooo hard not to laff… a moment later, we are at the table and the pyschotic 13 friends give him the last supper: half a kilo vanilla cake right on his face and yeah, eight eggs to top it all.

He wanted a hawt chick for his budday, we gave him eggs itself!! So it wud be interesting to ask him: wat came first? the chick or the egg?

So that was it…his budday surprise happened two days before his budday and guess wat? We owned up that we created avantika and richa and that they do not exist.

YES, they were purely fiction!

So we owned up they are fiction but … abhishek still refuses to believe they are fiction cuz there is no proof that they do not exist!!! so tell me…. am i genious or am i a genious? But u know who is really poor?

anirvan!

The poor bong who was hitting on avantika thinking she exists!

Btw avantika and richa both have over 60 emails in a week of their creation!

Anirvan is still wondering why avantika hasnt called him after asking him for fone number. I cant help beaming at this masterpiece bakra…

The most perfect one ive ever played and I still cant stop laughing! We have done a dozen bakras till now but this one surely takes the CAKE!!

It is special cuz it comes against my own partner in crime!!!

Im still laughing cuz he refuses to believe they are fiction! i cant stop. He is sayin he will believe after i delete them! Now im in no mood to delete the fictitious characters. How about keeping them making bakras outta despo guys in orkut?

Btw, guys, I’m on Orkut as Sudhish Kamath. Add me if you can find me. 🙂

And if you want Orkut invites, leave your email IDs in the comment box.

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