No Smoking (2007-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

No Smoking Movie Details :

No Smoking Movie is a 2007 Indian Bollywood neo-noir surreal psychological thriller film writter and directer is Anurag Kashyap and co-producer are 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 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, becoming 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 3 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.

• Directer : Anurag Kashyap
• Producer : Kumar Mangat Pathak,Vishal Bhardwaj
• Screenplay : Anurag Kashyap
• Story : Anurag Kashyap,Raj Singh Chaudhary
• Starring : John Abraham,Ayesha Takia,Paresh Rawal,Ranvir Shorey
• Music : Vishal Bhardwaj
• Cinematography : Rajeev Ravi
• Editer : Aarti Bajaj
• Casting : Gautam Kishanchandani
• Art Direction : Tariq Umar Khan
• Production Management : Santosh K. Mishra,Anil Thakur
• Assistant Director : Abbas S. Burmawala,Raj Kumar Gupta,Param Kalra
• Visual Effects : Kumar Abhishek,Siraj Ansari,Shruti Banta,Sudeepto Bose
• Production Company : Big Screen Entertainment,Eros Entertainment,Panorama Studios,Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures
• Distributors : Big Screen Entertainment
• Genres : Drama,Mystery,Thriller
• Release date : 26 October 2007
• Running time : 128 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

No Smoking Movie Wacth Online Trailer :

Star Cast of The Film :

• John Abraham … K
• Ayesha Takia … Anjali / Annie
• Paresh Rawal … Shri Shri Prakash Guru Ghantal Baba Bangali Sealdah Wale
• Ranvir Shorey … Abbas Tyrewala
• Kiku Sharda … Doctor in charge of K’s brother J
• Akhauri P. Sinha … ACP
• Joy Fernandes … J’s friend Alex
• Karan Makhija … J’s friend, at the starting.
• Megh Pant … ACP Assistant
• Vasan Bala … The man at the launch party of Alex’s cigars
• Pravishi Das … Woman in Burkha (as Pravishee)
• Joy Fernandas
• Sanjay Gandhi … Chacha
• Vikramaditya Motwane … Man showing middle finger.
• Jesse Randhawa … Dancer / Singer
• Gajraj Rao … Rajendra Kishan Dhingra
• Vineet Sharma
• Vivek Sharma
• Sanjay M. Singh … J
• Yuvraj … Guruji’s goon
• Bipasha Basu … Dancer / Singer (uncredited)
• Anurag Kashyap … Man in the elevator (uncredited)

Story of The Film :

K lives a wealthy lifestyle in India along with his widowed mother and brother, J. His mother works as an interpreter with the German embassy. As a child K acquired the habit of chain-smoking along with his friend, Abbas Tyrewala. Now matured, running his own business, married to Anjali, who also doubles as his Secretary, Annie, K continues to chain-smoke. When Abbas quits, he manages to convince K to undergo treatment at the Prayogshala located near Kalkatta Karpets but K refuses. He changes his mind when Anjali moves out, decides to undergo treatment, goes to Prayogshala, meets with Guruji, is forcibly enlisted, then again forced to sign a Cheque for 21 Lakhs Rupees for his treatment, and after doing so is discharged with a warning that very bad things will happen to him and everyone of his family if he dares to smoke again. Watch what happens when K decides to secretly re-locate and continue to smoke.

Production :
Development :

The idea for the film came during the making of Satya (1998), when director Ram Gopal Varma pitched a story about a chain smoker’s encounter with someone who despises smoking. Varma later incorporated his own idea of the story as a short segment in his anthology film, Darna Mana Hai (2003). During the shooting of Kashyap’s Black Friday, his assistant narrated him a different script about a chain smoker who wakes up without cigarettes and is unable to get any because of a curfew. Kashyap decided to take the story forward, taking inspiration from Quitters, Inc. and a surreal moment from Cats Eye, subsequently making him develop the story into a darker and more unreal version.

Film Casting :

After the scripting was complete in 2006, Kashyap narrated the film to Shahrukh Khan, who was keen to do the film but later would back out for unknown reasons. When the deal fell through Kashyap who was in bad shape at the time, as one of his films were delayed and the other stuck in production, tried to get a hold of all the top actors, though none of them responded except for Abraham. Vishal Bhardwaj, Kashyap’s friend and producer of the film recommended Saif Ali Khan, as he was part of the smoking segment in Darna Mana Hai, though Kashyap had already finalised Abraham. Later false reports surfaced that Saif be appearing in a cameo, on the request of co-producer Kumar Mangat, who worked together in Omkara (2006).

Due to the film having a complex storyline, when Kashyap was auditioning Abraham he read him a badly written fake script titled Lapata (Lost), which Abraham declined to. After which he read him the real script of No Smoking, he immediately agreed to do it. Initially Takia was not comfortable with the love making scenes and the clothes of the secretary (Annie), though Kashyap refused to make any changes. There is also a scene where Abraham is seen nude from rear, this stirred up some controversy. Abraham who had previously quit smoking, smoked up to 90 cigarettes a day during the shooting to give the film a more believable look. Later when the film was complete Abraham went for an X-ray and found his lungs were heavily damaged.

Originally director Rajkumar Santoshi was set to make his acting debut by playing the role of the doctor, and writer Abbas Tyrewala was to play the role later given to Shorey, hence Kashyap named the character after the writer.

Film Shooting :

Most of the film shooting was done in unique ways. In one scene where Abraham and Shorey are seen as teenagers smoking Marijuana, most directors would have used child actors but Kashyap decided instead to alter the appearance of the actors and make them improvise and behave as kids themselves.

The film was also shot in parts of the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Siberia, in extremely cold climates with temperatures of minus 25 degrees Celsius (°C), despite this none of the crew members had any problems during the shooting. During the shooting in Uzbekistan, a Russian actor dressed as a soldier had to chase Abraham. After running 200 meters the man collapsed, as the shooting was on high altitudes, there was a lack of oxygen. He had to be rushed to the hospital, as he had stopped breathing

No Smoking Movie Songs / Music :

The official soundtrack was composer is Vishal Bhardwaj who also co-produced the film. Background Score was done by Hitesh Sonik & Clinton Cerejo. The lyrics were penned by Gulzar. The music rights were sold to Eros Entertainment and were released in September 2007.The album is available to download from iTunes.

• “Phook De” (Club Mix) – Rekha Bhardwaj
• “Kash Laga” – Sukhwinder Singh, Daler Mehndi, Vishal Bhardwaj
• “Ash Tray” – Deva Sengupta
• “Phook De” – Sukhwinder Singh
• “Jab Bhi Ciggaret” – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Jab Bhi Ciggaret” (Jazz) – Adnan Sami

 “Phook De” Full Video Song :

• Song : Phook De
• Singer : Sukhwinder Singh

 “Kash Laga” Full Video Song :

• Song : Kash Laga
• Singer : Sukhwinder Singh, Daler Mehndi, Vishal Bhardwaj

No Smoking Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.2 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 6558.

“No Smoking Movie” is the most brilliant,daring,unconventional film ever to come out of Bollywood. It could have been written by Franz Kafka or begotten by Stephen King upon John Grisham. John Abraham is outstanding as the arrogant selfish Indian yuppie “K”, a Kafka hero if there ever was one. When his bullied wife leaves him, he’s referred by a peculiar friend and his own peculiar family doctor to a mysterious clinic that guarantees he can kick his most nasty habit, smoking. The clinic turns out to be a nightmarish set-up (The Firm) from which there is no back-sliding without dire consequences. “K”, the master of all he surveys immediately rebels and brings down hellish results upon himself and his family. The viewer is jolted along on this queasy and horrific experience just as is “K”. Will “K” ultimately kick his “habit” and eradicate much of his personality along with it….will “K” become a model “Stepford” husband? Watch this disturbingly entertaining allegorical fable and find out!

Critics Rating  by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 1 star out of 5 Star.

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