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    “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

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

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

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    “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
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    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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I am Afia Megha Abhimanyu Omar: Stories no one told you before

April 30, 2011 · by sudhishkamath

Genre: Drama

Director: Onir

Cast: Nandita Das, Purab Kohli, Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Arjun Mathur, Anurag Basu, Anurag Kashyap

Storyline: A divorcee meets with her sperm donor to have a baby, a Kashmiri Pandit returns home to Srinagar after 20 years, a filmmaker is haunted by child abuse and a gay man is humiliated

Bottomline: A daring indie film about identity, boundaries, sexuality and societal norms

Got an open mind? Make sure you take that with you when you enter the hall to watch Onir’s most honest and powerful film till date.

Because, when you hear a man still haunted by child abuse confess that he felt the love of his step-father strangely comforting that after a point he used to manipulate their incestual relationship for personal gain, you will need empathy to soak in the complexity of this intricately woven tales of people and identity.

Because, when you watch a family of a reformed mujahideen living in Srinagar refer to Delhi as India, you will need the compassion to dig into their tense, military-supervised everyday lives, understand and accept that ideologies have caused irreparable damage between friends.

Because, when you see a divorced woman waver around about wanting to know more about her sperm donor but not wanting him around after the delivery, you need to see it as a fleeting moment of confusion, a perfectly normal thing for an anxious mother.

Because, when you see a powerful man blackmail a struggler into going on a dinner date with him for purely sexual reasons, you need the perspective to understand that there are very few avenues left for gay men to openly flirt with other men.

And because, people are complex.

This anthology of short stories – I am Afia, I am Megha, I am Abhimanyu and I am Omar – is a mixed bag. There are loads of issues packed together into every short story apart from the broad common thread of identity and the role of the system in defining boundaries, so much that each story is complicated in its own unique way.

If the system prevents a mother from meeting a sperm donor in I am Afia (Nandita Das), the system has caused a permanent rift between best friends in I am Megha (Juhi Chawla), the system is in denial about child abuse in I am Abhimanyu (Sanjay Suri) and the system is the two-faced hypocritical oppressor in I am Omar (Arjun Mathur). The last story is more about Jai (Rahul Bose) than Omar though.

Each story, irrespective of the intensity of drama, is treated refreshingly low-key that the dramatic background score actually jars in a couple of places. Despite the extreme nature of the issues explored, nothing is done to shock and awe. With I am, Onir has really come of age as a filmmaker with an original voice. And it’s a voice that needs to be heard.

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