No Smoking

No Smoking

Cast: John Abhraham, Ayesha Takia, Filter Tips, Ash Trays
Direction: Anurag Kashyap
Rating 1 star

Great, wonderful, superb, just for creative words. Sheer genius, Now we must all stand up, salute and go wah wah for Anurag Kashyup, who writes blockbuster blogs and classic movies. He’s a genius, man, pure genius. He’ll make a kaagaz Ke phool patti yet. Or at least an Anurag India. Or how about Kashyap e Azam/

I mean he pays homeage to the director of Cabaret (Bob Fosse) when he makes a woman sing in the voice of Adnam Sami. Shudder. Kashyap reads and sees movies, you know, so he is very knowledable. He can even say critics are something that go down the flush every morning, that they are a seven letter word, beginning with F and ending in S. But aren’t we all?

Aaah, so lovely, beautiful, Kashyap has now written and directed No Smoking. In this John Abhraham, with his Gulzar like stubble, smokes ciggies, bathes in a tub, visits a weird Undergroundpur for a cure (for smoking, not bathing sillies) and argues with Ranvir Shorey who plays cross eyed, a first in cinema history – an actor goes kaania, bhenga, whatever. Too in depth man too in depth, puffing, drivingthe sex act, the sex act, fingers being chopped. What’s happening in there? You can’t make out, you don’t care, and you are fed up of the affectations, the self indulgence,a nd the fact that you are even botheredto see this Dhumrapan Nishedh Bandhi which tells you about Socrates, Plato and then goes Do be Do. I swear on Sinatra’s head.

The movie’s too unusal, unconventional and daring. It’s original. It’s so much like Stephen King’s story Quitters’ Inc which featured as a part of the Cat’s eye Hooror movie way back in 1985..

Sir kashyap, your genius is blinding. Thank you for Quitters Inc. which you have set in Mumbai and Siberia. And if you Ask me at this very point. I don’t wanna quit smoking.