who liked 'NO SMOKING'

no offence to all JOHN ABRAHAM fans!!!!!😛

Originally posted by: 54321

Its a movie for people who like to think critically. If you don't you won't understand the movie..or enjoy it.
Its a great movie, if you understand the deeper meaning of it

sorry if im rude but what is the story about??

Originally posted by: Hrithik_rocks

sorry if im rude but what is the story about??

Heres the synopsis and deeper meaning from imdb:..(the director also explains deeply what the meaning is about...google it to find out)

The Plot The Protagonist "K" is a narcissist, self obsessed chain smoker. But I believe most smokers are narcissist to an extend. So is K, the man who spends hours in the Wash Room, to enjoy the smoke look at his well toned body and enjoy his looks, his style, rebuilding his confidence, by self assuring that "nobody tells me what to do". He takes his life for granted, when he says, no body leaves me. The question of leaving, quitting in his life has to go with his past, where his mother and father split.

He is so obsessed with himself, that he is got less time to think about it. A self made cosmopolitan corporate boss, who makes things possible, with out leaving cigarette not even a moment. His name is K, because his name is K, and there is no surname, last name attributes, to add to the fact that he is self made man. His wife Anjali is a woman, who never complained, at last sticks her foot down, and asks him to quit smoking. He is referred to a clinic, Prayog Shala, which has a reputation. K decides to go to the clinic to bring back his estranged wife. He goes down the shabby "Kalkatta Karpets", a shady place where Prayog Shala is located. Bengali Baba, chief there asks him to enroll, or else die. He is got no option but to take it. The conditions put by Baba are simple. If K smokes his first Cigarette after this , his brother who is in hospital will be suffocated with cigarette smoke. Second cigarette, his fingers will be cut off. Next cigarette, his wife will die.

Anurag has employed the same devices that was always incorporated by likes of David Lynch (Blue Velevet, Mullholland Drive etc.), Martin Scorsese ( After Hours), Charlie Kauffman (Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, adaptation, being John Malkavitch, etc. )

This film has nothing to do with quitting smoking. But everything to do with quitting any addiction in life. Smoking being one of the worst, yet popular addiction is difficult to kick, because of the availability of cigarettes was just chosen by him. This film is about habits, that has gotten in to us, in the subconscious, which makes us feel we need it. The inner struggle , whether for good or bad.

the dream K is having is of Siberia, it represents oppression, a communist rule, where there are no individual liberty. He is the one who believes he is independent and free, and he is made to quit his individual liberty, his dream state just signifies that, the state he is in, the desperation for smoke. He will get killed if he goes for the smoke.

* the Baba is a doctor, there is no Baba, he instead of the usual chemical treatment, treats K psychologically. After all smoking is more a psychological addiction

* the dialog Baba says about Antaratma, is about subconscious. the struggling K we see is his subconscious, what Baba does is he is taming the subconscious, the key factor of individuality and liberty from the mind of a narcissist man, who says, no one teaches me what to do. For that fear in injected in to his mind.

* there are no actual loss of ears, eyes, family, what ever. Those are fears of losing loved ones, harming them, causing harm to oneself, by smoking, there are no accident, but its what he is going through

* there are no Annie, only Anjali. Annie is the guilty feeling that he has in his mind, that if he smokes he will loose her, and also the temptation to smoke. (to cheat or not to cheat one's wife)

* he is forced many times to smoke, and smoking he is made to believe causes harm to his loved ones, that explains the murder of Anjali, suicide of his brother (he is made to believe that he is the cause of his brothers lung problem), etc.

* the dialog I reached here through bathtub, him though Almari, signifies the subconscious of other people going through the same, similar phase

* the other K inside the that dirty room, trying to reach the original K, is none other than his subconscious trying to reach him, and make him smoke, the dirt signifies many things, the smoking dirt, the suffering he is going through

* remember the announcement "those who have paid full fees can go for the bath". It means the course is complete, where the subconscious is cleaned up

* finally he, the subconscious, is being burnt , and finally K is relieved and treated.

* the cut finger is none other than the fact that, he is missing the smoke in his had, the fingers which are cut are the ones which we use to smoke, so when he finally quit smoking, he is missing those, the only way he can get out of it is to get himself company and relief, which is why he has to enroll another person for the program.

Originally posted by: samir_soni

I am a John fan but I didn't watch the movie to see him. He was showing off his ribs in a tub so it was not all pleasant 🤢

The movie is good because of its bizarre but tight script. There are parts that you don't understand, but yet there are lots you can interpret and get the full picture. You can think of the whole story as a bad dream, as a challenge on how addicted are you when it threatens your loved ones.

Paresh Rawal can be viewed as a expert hypnotiser, the owner of a worldwide rehab or simply a spirit himself.

It's all up to you if you get the basic man controls habits or habits control a man question.

Originally posted by: amby_luv

i haven't watched it and im not planning to but i heard its really confusing and extremely boring 😕 😕

it is