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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 April 1st, 2006

Vodkathon: Round Five

April 1, 2006 · by sudhishkamath

It’s 5 in the morning. There’s some Sikkim stuff called Fire ball brandy inside me.

And I feel the need to wear this T-shirt.

Random trivia: The new Pepsi Cafe Chino seems to be ideal for rum with its coffee flavour… Sorta Irish Coffee taste. Rocks. It worked pretty well with the Brandy too… Made it sweet, smooth and strong… Went down in a minute! 😀

Vodkathon: Round Three!

April 1, 2006 · by sudhishkamath

Right now, Hutch is talking to me… I mean Hitch… He he!

Alex Hitch Hitchens: Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.

Sara: What should we toast to?
Alex Hitch Hitchens: Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

Alex Hitch Hitchens: So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows… but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you’re enjoying your life, and the next you’re wondering how you ever lived without them.

There’s also this funny one from Just Like Heaven (thanks One Dollar Saint for refreshing my memory):

“God made alcohol as a social lubricant. To make men brave, and to make women loose”

Ha ha!

Anyways, what Hutch forgot to say was: It could happen in the blink of an eye… One moment you’re sharing your life and the next you are wondering how and why you let them take over you… And then… You live.

Vodkathon: Round Two

April 1, 2006 · by sudhishkamath

I dedicate this round to the world.

Because, ladies and gentlemen, the world is round.
Hee hee!

Vodkathon: Round One!

April 1, 2006 · by sudhishkamath

Awrite, I’ve not done this before. So I have no clue what I’m gonna blog about.

But keeping up with the spirit of alcohol, maybe I should write about its healing properties, as a tribute to this vodkathon in progress.

Heard of alcohol ablation? Evidence that the right quantity of alcohol can save lives and heal the world.

As I take another sip of Absolut, I can hear it redefine life and the need for the blur… For clarity might make you see the ugliness and the blur helps you forget it, at least momentarily and celebrate what you have right in front of you.

True, it is escape and running away from reality… But will reality change if you abstain? Absolutly, not.

Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard how it’s bad for the liver.

But depends on what you care for more? One little part of your body or you as a whole — the ‘liver’ of a life that’s getting larger with every large round of vodka?

It’s Saturday night. It’s not time for brooding… Or medical studies.

So screw everything.

Fuck the liver? Be the ‘liver’.

Vodkathon: Round Four!

April 1, 2006 · by sudhishkamath

I hear half of Bangalore is at the Vodkathon.

I see some cool alcohol related quotes here.

I feel I’m alone.

Wait a second, I am alone. I’m at work. Doing Night shift. Ha ha!

What’s the photograph about then? It’s of an empty bottle. What’s today’s date anyway? 😀
Psst: It’s a vodkathon, you can’t expect the rounds to be in order. But yes, this is the last post in the series. The ones above were typed before this.

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