The Extended Canon
No Smoking
नो स्मोकिंग · 2007
A narcissist enrols in a rehabilitation programme whose terms of failure are biblical. Reality stops cooperating early.
- Director
- Anurag Kashyap
- Year
- 2007
- Genre
- Surreal · Thriller
- Cast
- John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal
Why it's in the canon
Hated in 2007, now the closest Hindi cinema has come to Lynch. Vishal Bhardwaj's strangest score.
A narcissist enrols in a rehabilitation programme whose terms of failure are biblical. Reality stops cooperating early.
No Smoking sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anurag Kashyap — also responsible for Gangs of Wasseypur, Black Friday, Dev.D.
- Released in 2007, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Surreal, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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