No Smoking Preview

NO SMOKING is about K (John Abraham). Simply K. A 30 year old man who thinks of himself as quite smart and refuses to listen to anyone, big or small. Confident about himself and whatever he does, he is a chain smoker in the true sense. Catching hold of this habit from a very young age, he hasn't looked back ever since.

His well wishers (read his wife and friends) have tried in vain to see to it that he lets go off this habit but all to no avail.

Will he finally manage to come out of this or will he only dig his own grave?

The man who could save him was Baba Bengali Sealdahwale [Paresh Rawal]. A simple looking man who could just be found at every nook and corner, he was autocratic and dictatorial but ensured guaranteed results. He has his own way of curing his patients. It's in fact quite simple. They only have to follow all his orders. And if they don't, he turns out to be their worst enemy.

Would K be next in line?

Well, K was not alone as he had a pretty wife in the form of Anjali [Ayesha Takia]. As a young woman who cared for her hubby in spite of his addiction to smoking, she herself was addicted to television soaps. K also had a pretty secretary for company, Honey [yet again played by Ayesha Takia].

Who was she? And in her, did K found an alternate to his wife?

Meanwhile K also had to contend with his friend Abbas Tyrewala [Ranvir Shorey] who himself was a cigarette addict once and had introduced smoking to K. What made him look for a solution? His love for his wife. And what made him cure his habit? Baba Bengali. This was the reason why he introduced K to Baba.

Will he manage to help his friend out?

An Anurag Kashyap film, NO SMOKING is, as per the film maker himself, a bizarre piece of cinema. With music by Vishal Bhardwaj and Kumar Mangat as the producer, NO SMOKING releases all over today.