No Smoking Page #3

Synopsis: K lives a wealthy lifestyle in India along with his widowed mother and brother, J. His mother works as an interpreter with the German embassy. As a child K acquired the habit of chain-smoking along with his friend, Abbas Tyrewala. Now matured, running his own business, married to Anjali, who also doubles as his Secretary, Annie, K continues to chain-smoke. When Abbas quits, he manages to convince K to undergo treatment at the Prayogshala located near Kalkatta Karpets but K refuses. He changes his mind when Anjali moves out, decides to undergo treatment, goes to Prayogshala, meets with Guruji, is forcibly enlisted, then again forced to sign a Cheque for 21 Lakhs Rupees for his treatment, and after doing so is discharged with a warning that very bad things will happen to him and everyone of his family if he dares to smoke again. Watch what happens when K decides to secretly re-locate and continue to smoke.
Director(s): Anurag Kashyap
Production: Eros Entertainment
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
Year:
2007
128 min
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What're you doing?

Let me go...

You don't know who I am...

Leave me!

Hey! Let me go...

Welcome to the first stage of

...our Quit Smoking Programme...

K:

Wake up...

Wake up my son...

In this lab...

...its our responsibility...

...that your habit of smoking, which

is making you irresponsible...

...finish that off completely.

If we fail to deliver...

...and are unsuccessful

in treating you,

...then we have no option left,

...but to send you down the road

no sane person would walk on...

Would anybody like?

No...

Because my son, soul-full the body

is divine... soul-less its dead

The end...

Soul...

The inner soul...

...is often frivolous, debauch,

indulgent...

but with a strong mind

you can control it...

...but if you are inherently

weak then my son...

...the wandering soul has

to be released, let go...

The soul is pure,

When life comes into being...

...then slowly, bit by bit

it starts to erode...

...the body corrupts it,

by indulging it...

...and to rebuild that lost eroded

soul is why I have been appointed...

By whom?

By The Greater than the Greatest!

Gurudev Baba Bengali!

But!

- Don't Argue!!

Democracy is up above the ground

you walk on! you die on!

You can "butt" into anything

with your butt's, up there...

But here you have descended...

...from your material hell

into my lower depths...

Here my spoken word is the

gospel of the gods...

Now that you've signed

on the contract...

...would you care to

repeat the honours...

This is my cheque book!

Yes sir.

Fees for your own treatment!

And an additional one rupee...

which is my fee

But that we take in cash

The fees for making me quit

smoking is 21 LAKH!

It's back-breaking work, you know.

You think I'm crazy?

You think I earn my money only

to dole it out as charity

Repeating it again & again

won't make it 20...

...it will stay 21 only...

If a poor man comes

to you for help...

...you charge him 21 lakhs too?

The "Poor" qualifies for

a government subsidy

This is robbery, you understand!

See, my fee is just a measly buck

That too a token of

your appreciation

I haven't started this

business for money.

Its all for charity

And just you watch!

The money you've parted with will

be utilized in your own treatment

Do you know that how

much of your money...

...you've squandered away due

to this bloody habit...

Yes... my lord...

K...

K!

K!

Touch of violence please!

Ok my lord...

The first time...

...Abbas stuck a cigarette between

...your fingers just so

you could look at it

you procured the matches

from your own pocket...

...a matchbox back then set

you back by 50 paise...

...all the gas you burnt up commuting

to and from the cigarette shop...

...the mouth freshener

that you purchased

...to hide the stench

from your father...

...then you graduated to pot...

...and once after smoking

some spurious weed

...you nearly went up

in smoke yourself!

A mere visit to the

hospital cost you

...1,50,000 to aspirate the

sludge from your stomach...

...every ashtray... matchbox,

lighter, bidi...

...and those fat ones

Cigars. Every wheeze, sputter

and cough caused by smoking...

...every spoonful of glycodine,

phensydyl

...every pill strepsil,

Erithromycin, Augmentin...

...every illness brought on

by this habit of yours...

...all those occasions when...

...your partner requested you

to butt your cigarette out...

...but you suspended the meeting and

strode out to finish your smoke...

...the losses you incurred

because of that!

Your wife's illness.

You bear a thirty percent stake in

your brother's asthma trouble...

...a silk Chinese tie estimated

at forty thousand burnt...

...mattresses set afire on

four disparate occasions...

...all because of a lit cigarette

Now excluding the millions

in losses...

...you have spent a total of

If you don't step on the brakes

now you'll be spending

...as much more in the

next seven years

To help you shake off the

yoke of this burden...

...the treatment is in your hands

Give him a pen

- Yes sir

And what if I don't sign it?

If you don't do it now then

you have to do it later

What if I don't do it?

Answer to your what is

a complicated process

...my son... you can't expect

me to be prompt.

I am going

- Guruji...

But you have signed a contract

I haven't! You forced me to!

Do you know who I am?

Why K? Where K? That I don't know.

But who K! That I surely do know!

I am going.

Your wish, I treat patient's

and not torment them.

What's the way out from here?

That's why I keep repeating son,

Sign on it and...

All the doors will open up for you.

Otherwise I will be forced to

do what I don't want to do.

The only problem with such a quick

second trip to that black hole is...

...you may not last the third.

That's why just sign for now

You can stop payment later

Did you sign?

Give him a pen, please!

Now my one rupee please

which I take in cash?...

Don't have it

Ok.

Next time.

Does it look like I'm coming back?

It's good if you don't come!

But son, everyone comes back.

In my experience each one returns...

Unfortunately smoking is

such a pathetic habit...

Now come over here...

You come here!

Come on son.

Your treatment has begun. Come

And if I don't?

If you don't come?

Then how will you go?

From this moment onward

you will not smoke...

Not even going to touch it...

And if you do

then for the first one

that you light...

...we'll have your brother...

...pay us a little visit

from his hospital bed...

...do you know what this is?

Once upon a time lived

a man called Hitler...

He had a teeny weenie moustache

like that Charlie of Chaplin...

See that.

My good friend,

Hitler

This was his stroke of genius

the Gas Chamber

And the lady there, she

is your doctor's mother...

...and the smoke...

...its the cigarette smoke...

...all the thousands of cigarettes...

...you must have smoked up until now

all that smoke in this little room...

...for your brother to breathe

in for all of five minutes.

Enough to make the healthiest

of lungs burst...

...and I believe your brother

is just one lung-ed.

And if your resolve still doesn't

hold up and you light up again!

Please sir, just listen

to me, I swear

I swear to god almighty I'll never

He scripts with just one finger now

Salam Namaste, M.B.B.S.

Listen Maqbool, I am there for you.

And if you light a third one...

...son before you smoke

it make sure...

...you take one last long loving

look at your wife...

...because in all likelihood

you'll never see her again...

...and if your itch drives you to

light up a fourth time then...

...it's the gas chamber

for your brother...

...if he survives the

last onslaught...

...and if he doesn't

then your mother...

remember to give her a warm farewell

hug before you light that one...

...and despite all of the above if...

...you still intend to be

as obstinate as a mule.

Then the mightiest of kings

have been rendered helpless...

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Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972), is an Indian film director, writer, editor, producer and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema, He is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award, and four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in 2013. After writing a television serial, Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama Satya (1998), and made his directorial debut with Paanch, which never had a theatrical release due to censorship issues. He then went on to direct Black Friday (2007), a film based on the book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. Its release was held up for two years by the Central Board of Film Certification because of the pending verdict of the case at that time, but was released in 2007 to widespread critical appreciation. Kashyap's followup, No Smoking (2007) met with negative reviews and performed poorly at the box-office. His next venture Dev.D (2009), a modern adaptation of Devdas was a critical and commercial success; followed by the political drama Gulaal (2009), and the thriller That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011). His prominence increased with the two-part crime drama, Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). Kashyap subsequently co-produced the critically acclaimed drama The Lunchbox, and the biographical drama Shahid (both 2013), the former earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language nomination. His next films were the anthology Bombay Talkies (2013), and the drama Ugly (2014). In 2016, Kashyap directed Raman Raghav 2.0, a film based on the serial killer Raman Raghav. His next film was the sports drama Mukkabaaz, which was released in 2018. Apart from filmmaking, Kashyap serves as the Member of board of the Mumbai-based NGO, Aangan, which helps protect vulnerable children around India. He is the founder of two film production companies: Anurag Kashyap Films and Phantom Films, with partnership from directors Vikramaditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl and producer Madhu Mantena. more…

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