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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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Rahman returns with twins!

February 28, 2009 · by sudhishkamath

“The first lesson we must learn from Hollywood: They take pictures without fighting between themselves,” joked Rahman, trying to ease the tension on his delayed entry with a hundred lensmen jostling to get a clear shot of him and his gold-plated britannium babies.

“Ok, I am going to leave then. Save my face and don’t fight here,” he pleaded before giving in and surrendered with a smile on his face, showing off his Oscars as the non-stop clicking bathed him with strobe light.

Rahman fielded questions for an hour at his first press conference on his return from Los Angeles – a trip that fetched him the priceless twins of the most coveted trophy on the planet.

“It (the Oscar) costs only $500. I didn’t even have to pay duty at the airport,” he laughed. From the shy composer who used to give single-line and near monosyllabic answers during interviews, A.R. Rahman has come a long way indeed. The new Rahman is confident, articulate and even funny as he demonstrated to the world with his now famous Oscar Speech. (“I am excited and terrified. The last time I felt like that was when I was getting married”)

But he still remains as down to earth as he has always been and cannot conceal his boyish excitement about having made it to the headlines in a newspaper in Bosnia or on being recognised everywhere from Starbucks to airports around the world.
What stops us Indians from winning Oscars, a journalist asked.

“Motivation to do something extra-ordinary and planning systematically. Look at you, if you had planned this photo shoot systematically, you wouldn’t have been fighting among yourselves.”

But then, he also added: “Our films are made for our audience and not for Oscars. Let’s make it for them and then see if we win or not.”

“The whole world’s eyes are on India. A lot of collaborations are possible. The West has started listening to us. A single recorded with Pussy Cat Dolls (a remix of Jai Ho called You’re My Destiny) is out and will be available on Youtube,” he said.

From Spielberg to Hans Zimmer to Michael Jackson, Rahman has made many of the people he once looked up to, look him up. Imagine growing up on Peter Gabriel and then robbing him of an Oscar. “I am a representative of Indian aspirations,” he said.

“My dream is to connect people with music. We live in troubled times. There is a divide between North and South India, East and West, Hindus and Muslims, and then, there’s the caste divide. And in these times, we can only look towards love,” he said, to a question on what prompted his speech.

What almost everybody wanted to know was if he considered Slumdog Millionaire to be his best. “I’ve said this before too. If there’s a beautiful ornament and if somebody really beautiful is wearing it, it makes the ornament look even better. I think Slumdog matched their sensibilities. According to your sensibility, you might have liked some other songs. There is no language for music. Gulzar’s song has phoenetic value apart from its extraordinary lyrical quality and meaning.”

He believes that Slumdog Millionaire won because it made a stronger impact than the other nominees as a film. “For them, it was a change of seeing something extra-ordinary.”

He recalled how initially there were no buyers for the film. “There was no budget either. Hardly one-tenth of the money needed. But Danny Boyle is a legendary director. People watch even his bad movies and they say this is his best.”

Though he has received two or three offers from Hollywood, he’s yet to finalise schedule.

“The expectations have become higher. My priority is good films, the language does not matter.”

But at his studio, it’s business as usual. He had just finished a song for him and handed it over to Mani Ratnam before he left to LA last week. He has Thirukkural and Bharatiyar projects in the pipeline and his KM Music Conservatory and Foundation to keep him busy.

Looking back at Slumdog and the few weeks he spent on it, he says:  “At that time, that’s all the time I had and it was enough. I think it’s destiny.”

It was an opportunity he seized. Boyle came to him for two songs, Rahman gave him a full album. In the end, it all paid off.

Recalling the Oscar moments:
I was like a zombie. I did my rehearsals for my performance. And slept only for three hours. I woke up and had my Oscar rehearsal again in the morning. I think more than the awards, the performance was historic. Later, when the award was announced, I just said what was in my mind. When I got off stage, I didn’t have time to take in the happiness. I had to perform within minutes. And performing there was a matter of pride. I had only 5 per cent expectations of getting the second award
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