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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 31st, 2005

My personal favourites 2005

December 31, 2005 · by sudhishkamath

Everybody have their own choices, here are mine.

Suddies 2005

Movie of the year (Tamil): Chandramukhi
Movie of the year (Hindi): Iqbal
Movie of the year (English): King Kong
Best director (Tamil): Balaji Sakthivel (for Kaadhal)
Best director (Hindi): Nagesh Kukunoor (Iqbal)
Best director (English): Peter Jackson (King Kong)
Most promising director (Tamil): Priya (Kanda Naal Mudhal)
Most promising director (Hindi): Jijy Philip (My Wife’s Murder)
Most promising director (English): Pass (not seen enough of debutant Hollywood directors)
Best actor award (Tamil): Prasanna (for Kanda Naal Mudhal)
Best actress award (Tamil): Sandhya (for Kaadhal)
Best actor award (Hindi): Amitabh Bachchan (for Viruddh)
Best actress award (Hindi): Sweta Prasad (for Iqbal)
Best actor award (English): Kong… he he!
Best actress award (English): Naomi Watts … okay, Im biased! But its my awards!
Best producer award (Tamil): Prakash Raj
Best producer award (Hindi): Ram Gopal Varma
The Phoenix prize: Superstar
Midas touch award: Vijay, Suriya
Midas touch award (Hindi): Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan
Midas touch award (English): Peter Jackson
Biggest loser award: Vikram (terrible Anniyan, even worse Maja, but hey! Anniyan at least made money)
Biggest loser award (Hindi): Salman, Saif (stop wearing Pink, dude!)
Biggest loser award (English): The guy who was insane enuff to produce ‘The Grudge‘
Worst movie (Tamil): Oru Naal Oru Kanavu
Worst movie (Hindi): Kisna
Worst movie (English): The Grudge, of course
Originality award (Tamil): Mirattal Adi (Dubbed version of Kung Fu Hustle)
Originality award: Jointly goes to Vinod Pande for Sins (er… originality finding excuses for sex scenes) and Subhash Ghai for Kisna (for finding excuses to get the white chick in the film take her clothes off in the movie)
Originality award (English): Stephan Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle
Copycat award (Tamil): Shankar (for plagiarising from his own earlier works)
Copycat award (Hindi): Vivek Agnihotri for Chocolate (for ripping off even lines verbatim from Usual Suspects)
Copycat award (English): Hideo Nakata for Ring 2 (and selling his soul to Hollywood)
Best reviewer (Hindi): Tough choice between Baradwaj Rangan and rediff’s Raja Sen.
Best movie blog: Lazy Geek

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