Ikkada choodu!
Moral of the story: Naan enna telunguliya sonnen?
Learn your language. My nanban, captain, filmmaker and editor Vijay Prabakaran made this one minute film for a competition.
This entry was posted on June 13, 2006 by sudhishkamath. It was filed under Uncategorized .
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Good Night | Good Morning
Word thru the bird
- haha! :) “@zombeaner: I need to include more hyperbole and less insight and shades of grey in my reviews. I wanna get my name on posters” ... Or so I said 14 hours ago
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About GNGM
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
Mumbai
Delhi
Gurgaon
Ahmedabad
Bangalore
Chennai
Hyderabad (January 27)
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More information: IMDB | Facebook | Youtube | Wikipedia | Website
*replays it again and again… in silence..*
June 13, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Haunting visuals…
Hats off to vijay and thank you for sharing.
June 13, 2006 at 1:11 pm
great.. thanks for sharing sudhish..
June 13, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Man ossome!!This is for the competition @ Max Mueller Bhavan I believe…All da best Vijay(namma per vechavanga ellam kalakkarangappa:D)..U stand a good chance!
June 13, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Very gripping one minute Sudhish. I happened to search for stuff on “aishnam” during which google turned only one(irrrelevant) result.
Konkani too is scriptless rite?
OT- by any chance is the insti named after Amon Goethe? Watched Schindler’s list a couple of days back and was stunned with the connection.
June 13, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Heartbreaking. Like Harish ended up playing it repeatedly
June 14, 2006 at 12:15 am
hi
are u anamika(check comment on previous post) herself???? it seems she luvfffffssss u!!!!
June 14, 2006 at 6:22 am
cool doc….and I’m not forgetting to learn Tamil….infact I’m helping in the growth of another language….
Namba madras tamil dhaan machi…[:D]
June 14, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Checked the web but could find Absolutely nothing about a language called Aishnam.
Otherwise this is an Excellent piece and message. Only wish he had used some really extinct language instead of a made up one!
June 14, 2006 at 4:51 pm
harish:
yes… very nice no?
he shot it with my handycam!
sugavasi:
im sure he has read your comment and will be glad to hear that.
prakash:
my nanban’s work… more than sharing, its showing off… he he!
vijay:
i think so too… I hope this makes it…
bharat:
yes konkani does not have a script of its own and uses the devanagari script… aishnam is a fictitious language.
dunno abt the goethe connection…
wa:
yes, yes… very powerful…
diva:
anamika is singer Mika’s lil sister…
vo:
karrectu!
anonymous:
exactly what i asked him but its a short film competition… which means u do have the creative licence to drive home the point…
all facts mentioned in the film are true though… only the language is fictional…
vijay:
June 14, 2006 at 9:08 pm
comment moderation removed.
had enabled it cuz i dint want people blurting out ending of Fanaa or Pudupettai…
now since its been over a week, i guess i can relax the rules…
June 14, 2006 at 9:12 pm
nice camera work.
June 23, 2006 at 7:12 am