Interior Cafe Night (2014) User Reviews

Interior Cafe Night

[Rahul143125 · 8/10 · 9 December 2017]

The title of this film itself is the one and only scene in this film. It's a film which depicts love, sadness and reconciliation in a very subtle way. The film has two heroes one is Naseeruddin Shah and the other is Naveen Kasturia. It starts of with Shah meeting Shernaz Patel, her past love. On the other hand there's Naveen Kasturia with his girlfriend. The rest is something that you will find out after watching the film. All four of them act brilliantly. Direction by Adhiraj Bose is excellent. He handles this romantic drama in a very delicate manner.

I'm going with four out of five for Interior Cafe Night. Hope you give at least 13 minutes for this wonderful piece of art.

Time machine cafe

[Peter_Young · 6/10 · 11 October 2021]

A very nice short telling a whole story in just a few minutes - a man and a woman, who were a couple in their youth and now middle-aged, meet at a coffee shop and reflect together upon their missed chance together. Seated at the next table in the same room is a young couple who could be real but is more probably just a live flashback of the story as unfolded by the old couple. A very interesting approach in style and execution which helps the story move through past and present proceedings more efficiently. I still wished for greater dramatic urgency given the story, but well.

Obviously being set in one room for the whole duration of the scene makes the setting an actor's stage, and the actors deliver. Naseeruddin Shah does what he did many years back in Ijaazat, only that this he is much more seasoned and knowing, and it shows. Shernaz Patel's warm eyes do much of the job. The younger actors are not quite up to the level of the more experienced veteran players, with comparisons made more palpable by the narrative, but they do reasonably well. A very nicely done film, could have been given just a little more but still well concluded.

Good take on romance and sadness (and comedy eventually)

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 28 June 2017]

"Interior Cafe Night" is an Indian movie from 2014 that has been seen by millions of people since then and the film's title is the location where it takes place. It runs for 13 minutes and was written and directed by Adhiraj Bose and if you aren't fluent in Hindi, make sure you get a good set of subtitles. I am not familiar enough with Indian cinema to say how well-known the actors in here are, but I think they all did a good job overall. It is the story of two couples, a young couple about to break up because the woman has to move far away, and an old couple reunited after many years, decades probably even. The plot twist with them being the same people at different stages in their lives can be guessed easily admittedly, maybe a bit too easily for the film to really make the touching impact it attempts to make. But it was still a decent watch that I enjoyed during pretty much all stages of its presentation. There was not one best moment or best performance or best aspect I would say, but there are also no major weaknesses here. It is a success that delivers in terms of several genres. I think you may want to see it, especially if you love Indian movies. Thumbs-up.

gem

[Kirpianuscus · 14 March 2021]

One of beautiful short films for who usefull sounds just fair. For performances of the four actors, for the inspired translation of love at different ages, for humor, delicacy and precise portrait of expectations and vulnerabilities, for the great end and, not the last, for the wise way to build their characters of Shernaz Pate and Nasseeruddin Shah. Short, a pure gem, mixture of sadness and wisdom and poetry of small gestures.