| Grade & Score (?) |
D- (32%)
Avg Rating: 1.58/5 (32%) from 33 Reviews |
| Reviews (?) |
33 Reviews Counted: 4 Good / 3 Average / 26 Bad
|
| Cast |
John Abraham, Ranvir Shorey, Joy Fernandes, Ayesha Takia and Kiku Sharda |
| Director |
Anurag Kashyap |
| Release Date |
October 26, 2007 |
| Box Office Status |
Washout |
Synopsis
A film by Anurag Kashyap starring John Abraham, Ranvir Shorey, Joy Fernandes, Ayesha Takia and Kiku Sharda.
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Reviews
| Good Reviews | Average Reviews | Bad Reviews |
| 4.0 |
"a treat for the senses"
- Without Giving The Movie Away |
| 3.0 |
"If you’re sure you prefer down-to-earth, conventional filmmaking you should definitely avoid it, but if you aren’t averse to experimentation and cerebral exploration, try it out"
- Full Hyderabad |
| 3.0 |
"a poetic experience. Treat
yourself"
- B4U |
| 3.0 |
"will get under your skin in a way that few films do"
- NDTV |
| 2.5 |
"at one level it could be read as brilliant and on the other as mindless"
- Business Of Cinema |
| 2.5 |
"an extremely dark thriller that may not be everyone's cup of tea but for connoisseurs of 'hatke' cinema it would be one interesting ride"
- Indya.com |
| 2.5 |
"Despite the positive merits, the cons definitely outweigh the pros"
- AllBollywood.com |
| 2.0 |
"Fans of [director] Anurag Kashyap will have to do some serious rethinking after watching this film"
- IndiaTimes |
| 2.0 |
"Cinema can be bizarre, but it still has to be cohesive. In that, this film is a miserable failure"
- Mid-Day |
| 2.0 |
"Passion for dark cinema!"
- Mumbai Mirror |
| 2.0 |
"entertainment value is missing from the film. An average fare"
- Magna Mags |
| 2.0 |
"Don't watch the movie, if you think films are 'timepass'. Chances are that 20 minutes into the film, you'll be hitting your head on the wall"
- Buzz 18 |
| 1.5 |
"leaves one feeling a little cheated"
- Movie Talkies |
| 1.5 |
"Kick Kashyap’s butt"
- DNA India |
| 1.5 |
"turns out to be a joke in the name of smoke"
- RadioSargam |
| 1.5 |
"leaves you completely baffled and desperately looking for logic in its surreal sequences"
- Times Of India |
| 1.0 |
"At least have the product comprehendible enough for a consumer to make some sense out of it"
- IndiaGlitz |
| 1.0 |
"I don’t want to quit smoking. I want to quit Kashyaping"
- Hindustan Times |
| 1.0 |
"Watching No Smoking is very injurious to health"
- Now Running |
| 1.0 |
"Miss this one! In fact just puff it away"
- Times Now |
| 1.0 |
"I tried very hard to like "No Smoking". But at the end of the ordeal it seemed a nation of smokers was preferable to a film that preaches no smoking with such opaque wisdom"
- Subhash Jha |
| 1.0 |
"a huge disappointment. Smoking kills. And so does No Smoking. Atleast it killed my admiration for Anurag Kashyap"
- Jam |
| 1.0 |
"an arrogant piece of work that reeks of over-confidence"
- IBN Live |
| 1.0 |
"a big disappointment. By the end of the film, I was tired, spent, and felt like having a smoke"
- ApunKaChoice |
| 1.0 |
"fails miserably. Very disappointing"
- IndiaFM |
| 1.0 |
"Don’t waste your time and money on this farce of a movie"
- Glamsham |
| 1.0 |
"has a script which is over the top, and a screenplay which is illogical and totally confusing"
- Bollywood Mantra |
| 1.0 |
"Don’t get lost in this murky maze"
- Deccan Herald |
| 1.0 |
"disappoints and will be called an absurd entertainment from a prolific director"
- Mag 4 You |
| 1.0 |
"is no good. Not because it doesn’t have a superb idea. It does. But because it is too bizarre, too outré, too out of it"
- The Indian Express |
| 1.0 |
"UNLESS A FUTURE FILMMAKER trains the camera on himself throughout the duration of his feature, I doubt we’ll see something as self-indulgent as No Smoking on the Indian screen"
- Baradwaj Rangan |
| 0.5 |
"this will go up in smoke, including the producer’s money"
- MeriNews |
| 0.0 |
"What was the director smoking?"
- Rediff |
