Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi?

Raat Gayi Baat Gayi?
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Saurabh Shukla
Produced by	Rajat Kapoor; Pritish Nandy; Rangita Pritish Nandy
Written by	Rajat Kapoor; Saurabh Shukla (story)
Starring	Rajat Kapoor; Neha Dhupia; Vinay Pathak; Iravati Harshe
Music by	Ankur Tewari
Cinematography	Fuwad Khan
Edited by	Sankalp Meshram
Distributed by	Pritish Nandy Communications
Release date	31 December 2009; ; ; ; ;
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi? (Hindi: ??? ?? ??? ???) is a 2009 Bollywood film written and directed by Saurabh Shukla. The film features Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Neha Dhupia, Iravati Harshe and Anu Menon in leading roles.^[1]

Plot[edit]

Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi? is a film about three couples and a keen observation on modern day marriage. Rahul (Rajat Kapoor) wakes up with a bad hangover after a party the night before. There he had met a sexy young woman - Sophia (Neha Dhupia). They got drunk and there were sparks flying. But Rahul doesn't remember what happened after that. Did they go all the way? His wife, Mitali (Iravati Harshe), is in a particularly bad mood this morning, and Rahul suspects that she might know about his little escapade last night. Rahul starts chasing his night—trying to retrieve it—trying to find out what really happened. His friends Saxena (Dalip Tahil) and Amit (Vinay Pathak) are going through their own marital crises of sorts. Driven to his wit's end, he realizes he must seek Sophia out to restore his sanity^[2]

Cast[edit]

Rajat Kapoor as Rahul Kapoor
Vinay Pathak as Amit
Dalip Tahil as Jaswinder 'Jas' Saxena
Iravati Harshe as Mitali R. Kapoor (credited as Irawati Harshe Mayadev)
Anu Menon as Nandini 'Nandi'
Navneet Nishan as Jolly J. Saxena (credited as Navniit Nisshan)
Ranvir Shorey as Gagandeep 'Gags' Singh
Aamir Bashir as Prasad
Makrand Deshpande as Party Guest (credited as Makarand Deshpande)
Sudhir Mishra as Archana's dad
Neha Dhupia as Archana / Sophia
Anil Chaudhary
Masoom Gandhi as Komal 'Chutka' R. Kapoor
Brijendra Kala (credited as Kala Briendra)
Shikha Markana
Tarini Mishra
Vivek Vaswani as Dr. Patkar

Soundtrack[edit]

The music of the film is composed by Ankur Tewari. It consisted of 7 songs and 3 remixes.^[3] The music was released on T-Series. Lyrics were penned by Ankur Tewari.

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Bade Shehar Ke Bade Nakhre"	Anushka Manchanda	2:23
2.	"Bade Shehar Ke Bade Nakhre" (Jazz)	Anushka Manchanda	2:23
3.	"Don'T Flay Love"	Siddharath Coutto	3:13
4.	"Kyon"	Ankur Tewari	5:36
5.	"Love In C Major"	Ankur Tewari, Siddharath Coutto	3:06
6.	"Love In C Major" (Remix)	Ankur Tewari, Siddharath Coutto	3:29
7.	"Mohabbat"	Ankur Tewari	3:23
8.	"Raat Gayi Baat Gayi"	Ankur Tewari, Anushka Manchanda	2:29
9.	"Raat Gayi Baat Gayi" (Remix)	Ankur Tewari, Anushka Manchanda	3:03
10.	"Yaari"	Ankur Tewari	4:40

Reception[edit]

The movie opened to mixed to negative reviews from critics. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film with one and half stars out of five saying, "In a nutshell, RAAT GAYI, BAAT GAYI? offers a few laughs, not laughter unlimited!"^[4]

Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the film two stars out of five and stated, "Raat Gayi Baat Gayi has the ingredients for a movie one would probably enjoy very much, but somehow they never come together."^[5]

Anupama Chopra of NDTV gave two and a half stars and commented, "This could have been a fun take on urban marriage but the script, by Rajat Kapoor and Saurabh Shukla, is absolute lead."^[6]

Nikhat Kazmi of the Times of India awarded three stars saying, "the film does augur for interesting viewing, providing an opportunity for a roll call of the entire current art house ensemble cast."^[7]