No Smoking (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Anurag Kashyap |
| Produced by | Kumar Mangat Pathak Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Screenplay by | Anurag Kashyap |
| Story by | Anurag Kashyap Raj Singh Chaudhary |
| Based on |
Quitters, Inc. (1978) by Stephen King |
| Starring |
John Abraham Ayesha Takia Paresh Rawal Ranvir Shorey |
| Music by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Cinematography | Rajeev Ravi |
| Edited by | Aarti Bajaj |
| Distributed by | Eros International |
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Running time
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128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹23 crore (US$3.4 million) |
| Box office | ₹3 crore (US$450,000) |
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| Studio album by Vishal Bhardwaj | ||||
| Released | September 2007 (India) | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | Eros Entertainment | |||
| Producer | Kumar Mangat & Vishal Bhardwaj | |||
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No Smoking is a 2007 Indian neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Kumar Mangat. The filim 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 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 first Indian film to be adapted from a Stephen King short story. 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.
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