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No Smoking

(2007)
Overall Rating   3.0/5.0  
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Thought provoking
May 6, 2008
 
Author: Kaustubh... i am number 23! Compliment the user
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K is a smoke addict. Nothing is more important to him than his cancer stick. Finally his wife, Anjali and friend Abbas persuade him to go to Baba Bengali for rehab. Baba Bengali is a strange character with supernatural powers. All of a sudden strange things start happening around K. The movie is about the perseverance of the soul. The quotes at the start of the movie, To be is to do; To be is to do and Do be do be do signify that "karoge toh rahoge, rahoge toh karoge". In various parts of the film one can see K's soul flitting in and out of his body. the bathtub is the portal for the soul and Baba Bengali traps his soul to cleanse it. That's why he says " atma hai to shareer ishvar hai, atma nahi toh shareer nashwar hai". At the end its shown to the audience how K's soul comes out of the furnace and rejoins his body. It took me 4 watches to get the idea but still parts of the film are unclear. Amazing movie!!
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my take on Anurags 'no smoking'
Nov 5, 2007
 
Author: Raj Compliment the user
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i dont know if the film NO SMOKING is ahead of times or wot, but wat i understand is the film failed to communicate with the audience. film is a medium of communication in audio visual form & if it does not communicate a story or its idea than somewhere there is a flaw in storytelling by the director.
lets be very honest about it & not get carried away by the fear of not being so called intellectuals. i adore anurag. he is a genius. but if he fails to communicate an idea lets accept it.
u see when earlier shyam benegal etc started making films decades ago people laughed at their films. so wat happened is we got 2 tribes in cinema making, commercial films & art films. its the same now. they failed with the masses. now may be satyajit ray is an icon to be worshipped but than way back when his films were released they were not mass appeal films. but as times changed the group of people increased who identified with satyjit ray, shyam benegal kind of cinema. so may be we can say these filmmakers were ahead of times & today after so many years they hav got some audience in public domain.
same is the case of anurag & his films. his films r on the wierd wild side of filmmaking. he tells his story in a very high intelectual fashion. its like a complex puzzle & requires lots of brain to be used. his films r the genre of 'modern art'. like modern art is understood (or shown to be understood!) by only intelectuals this genre of films r understood by very few.
this style of films work on one basic concept of INTERPRETATION. there can be 'n' number of interpretations of his films bcause every individual will hav his own perspective on the film. i may interpret something dark but u may interpret it as a philosphical film. these type of film, uses a lot of metaphor in terms of narration of its idea.
so may be if not today, slowly we will hav a handful of audience, i mean intelectual audience who can crack the stories & themes of a film. Anurag will be remembered as the pioneer in this genre of arrogant filmmaking!
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Review No Smoking great movie
Oct 29, 2007
 
Author: Manu Compliment the user
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Incredible movie, AK has great imagination first to think and rite a story like this, and the way he directed the movie it was reaallyy outstanding.

I think Indian audience will not like this movie much coz of deffrnt and un conventional story...but a movie like this shud be appreciated and supported as Vishal Bharadwaj did. One need guts to make a movie like this...cheers to AK, john, and everyone in the movie!
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lousy movie
Oct 27, 2007
 
Author: Hspraveen Compliment the user
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the movie makes no sense to me, in spite of me being a pretty intelligent guy Smile but seriously, i sat through most of the 2 hours thinking it would all be made clear to me in the end. but the movie ends abruptly and there's no explanation for the weird atma, bathtub scenes, ayesha being both wife & secretary, etc. i would not recommend anybody else seeing this movie.
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Need to watch it again
Oct 27, 2007
 
Author: Ginsoakedboy Compliment the user
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Its was hard to interlink some (most ;) ) scenes and dialogues of this movie.
It looked like most of the scenes are symbolic in nature, but coherence was missing.
So I think I need to watch the movie 2-3 times more.

This movie is surely not to be watch after post drinking session with chicken biryani.
But surely this movied moved most the film watchers. 
Storyline was not boring and there was something to look forward to all the time(allthough most of us were not understanding anything), still people started walking out (because it created weired kind of environment). I remember same thing happened to "Irreversible" movie during its screening in Canne film festival. After movie was over there was a kind of sadness on faces, wiered smell (I think this was perceived smell because of sadness in heart -- some "chemical locha").

Movie is not for faint hearted and its not a timepass movie (either it will make you think hard or get bored nothing easy going).

I liked the songs Kash Laga, Phunk le.
Ayesha Takia deserves whistelings she got in the hall. Bips was good but looked clumsy in the dance. Jesse Randhawa looked like a guy to me for first time.
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no smoking:follow this if u love finguring.
Oct 27, 2007
 
Author: Birju Compliment the user
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No smoking.,Smoking Kills . i know,last night i watched the movie

., The moment i came out of the theatre i was euphoric.,or may be exhaust or may be confused., yeah thats right as i was trying to infer the climax/and the whole movie to some extent.but i had a couple of beer before the movie that helped. :)

Well the storyline does not describe the the real soul of the movie., its the treatment which is  way ahead and different from regular bollywood stuff.but i m confused whether i liked that movie or not, now u see even after 10 hours i m not not able to figure out few things in the movie specially the endind.how the hell John lost his fingers.neways i never felt bored in the movie either., John has acted well along with paresh rawal and ranvir shorrey.

Ayesha'Gadda'Takia was reminding me of someone from  HENTAI series and was looking hotter than the hottest in her secretary avatar.over all movie can be seen as many times as u can to infer out something and  i think every time u ll notice something extra(And plz let me know if u find something regarding the climax)

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confusing....
Oct 27, 2007
 
Author: Shantanu Compliment the user
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mmm I think I need to watch the movie again, this is the first reaction after I came out of the theatre. Cinematography is good, apart from this actually I am not able to make out anything!

It has fundas of Matrix, some shady Ramsay Movie (atma and all that crap).... Nazi like gas chambers. Well if any of u reading this review has the mail  address of John Abraham please give it to me, I want to understand the plot...... atleast he mmust have read and understood the script. But apparently he was found saying "this movie is different"  and it surely is !

I am giving 2 stars to the movie just because I cannot post here without giving the ratings, but actually I would definitely like to watch it again just because I want to understand the plot... and would hold my rating till then

Overall Rating: No Comments (didnt understand the movie)

 bUt boss Ayesha Takia is definitely hot....... hottest with that red lipstick, red spectacles....white top and black skirt... ooooommmmpppphhhh

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Its different !
Oct 27, 2007
 
Author: !! ~~n zamana~~!! Compliment the user
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my review in points 

*This movie has convoluted, yet grasping story line

* Its storyabout a guy (john abraham), his fight about quitting smoking, and this sri sri baba bengali.

* There is no point writing more about the story line. 

* Its not for the faint hearted

* Its a new genre ! - is more than a thriller,

* I liked it :) .. definitely worth a watch, more than once.

* Good acting by john, paresh rawal and others.  

* Ayesha takia is hot ..

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john abram
Oct 3, 2007
 
Author: Aditya Compliment the user
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in the movie no smoking john has done a wonderful job i think this movie will be a hit
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