Rated [rate 2]

How do we put this delicately? The director [Anurag Kashyap] of No Smoking must have been eternally stoned while writing and directing this movie. Watching this movie is once in a lifetime opportunity to redeem yourself of all your sins that you might have committed by watching all the B-category C-Class movies.

The movie revolves around a guy [John Abraham] who is a chain smoker, to put it more bluntly, this guy could beat the steam/coal powered train riding from Bombay to Calcutta when it comes to huffin’n puffin the smoke. Around 8 packs a day, smokin in the loo to elevators to amore to sleep to dinner table to…watchama-callit. Anyways the story now centers around how his wife [Ayesha Takia] tries to get him to quit smoking by taking him to a tantra-mantra quack [Paresh Rawal], and this quack then offers him guidelines to quit smoking. The catch is the hefty fee and some conditions.

The viewer is taken through the labyrinth of quackdom and Europe and Serbia and dont know where else..and the movie ends up trying to give a smoker a lesson in No Smoking or else face the consequences.

The movie is projected as an abstract…an experimental venture. I believe the movie is a dream sequence of the director after getting stoned on every possible substance abuse at one go. See this movie to disbelieve in reality. And the big question, would you quit smoking? Well my friends if you watch this movie twice…you might end up partnering the director in getting stoned.