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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