No Smoking (2007)
No Smoking (2007)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
John Abraham
K
Ayesha Takia
Anjali
Paresh Rawal
Shri Shri Prakash Guru Ghantal Baba Bangali Sealdah Wale
Vikramaditya Motwane
Employee in K's Office
Ranvir Shorey
Abbas Tyrewala
Raj Singh Chaudhary
Writer
Kiku Sharda
Doctor in charge of K's brother J
Jesse Randhawa
Item Number
Bipasha Basu
Item Number
Joy Fernandes
J's friend Alex
Karan Makhija
J's friend, at the starting.
Megh Pant
ACP Assistant
Sunil Lulla
Co-Producer
Vasan Bala
The man at the launch party of Alex's cigars
Inderjit Chadha
Line Producer
Anurag Kashyap
Director
Tariq Umar Khan
Art Direction
Raj Singh Chaudhary
Writer
Jai Singh Nijjar
Stunt Coordinator
Ganesh Acharya
Choreographer
Vishal Bhardwaj
Producer
Kumar Mangat Pathak
Producer
Kunal Sharma
Sound Designer
Clinton Cerejo
Composer
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No Smoking is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Kumar Mangat. The film stars John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Ranvir Shorey and Paresh Rawal in the lead roles, while Bipasha Basu appears in an Item number. The film is loosely based upon the 1978 short story "Quitters, Inc." by Stephen King, which was previously adapted as one of three segments featured in Hollywood anthology film, Cat's Eye (1985). It became the second Indian film after Julie Ganapathi and first Hindi-language film to be adapted from a Stephen King's work. The story follows K (Abraham), a self-obsessed, narcissist chain smoker who agrees to kick his habit to save his marriage and visits a rehabilitation centre, but is caught in a labyrinth game by Baba Bengali (Rawal), the man who guarantees he will make him quit.The film released worldwide on 26 October 2007, but was met with a lukewarm response from Indian critics and mixed response from overseas critics. The film did not perform well at the box office either, with a box office gross of ₹3 crore (US$380,000) against a production budget of ₹23 crore (US$2.9 million) and was one of the major disasters of the year. According to Kashyap, the film failed because, it was considered much ahead of its time, courtesy of its dark and unusual storyline comprising with elements of surrealism, fantasy, dream, reality, horror and dark humour which left critics and the cinema-goers baffled, this was frowned upon by Indian audiences, as it was unconventional, pretentious and they had never seen anything like it. But in later years, the film received positive reviews and has become a cult film.
No Smoking was nominated at several award ceremonies in 2008, primarily for the technical aspects of the film, including three Filmfare Award nominations. Before a full cinematic release in India, the film was invited to be screened at the Rome Film Festival where it won huge appreciation from the audience and critics alike. In 2011, the film was played at several film festivals in India and China, receiving unanimous applause and praise, as well as winning a number of awards.