Review: No Smoking is a colossal disappointment

Cast: John Abraham, Ayesha Takia


Direction: Anurag Kashyap


The film is an arrogant piece of work that reeks of over-confidence.


Indulgent to the point of alienating his audience, director Anurag Kashyap steals the premise of No Smoking from a segment in the 1985 film Cat's Eye, adapted from Stephen King's anthology of fear stories.


In Kashyap's film, John Abraham plays a chain-smoking businessman who agrees to quit smoking when his wife Ayesha Takia threatens to leave him. He signs up at a dungeon-like rehabilitation centre run by Paresh Rawal whose idea of therapy is a tad unconventional – it involves severe punishments like having one's fingers chopped off, or one's family knocked off every time one reaches for a smoke.

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