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''No Smoking'' is a 2007 Indian neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and Kumar Mangat. The film stars John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Ranvir Shorey and Paresh Rawal in the lead roles, while Bipasha Basu appears in an Item number.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/cast/id/201583 )〕 The film is loosely based upon the short story ''Quitters, Inc.'' by Stephen King, which was previously adapted as one of three segments featured in Hollywood anthology film, ''Cat's Eye'' (1985). It became the first Indian film to be adapted from a Stephen King short story. The story follows K (Abraham) a self-obsessed, narcissist chain smoker who agrees to kick his habit to save his marriage and visits a rehabilitation centre, but is caught in a labyrinth game by Baba Bengali (Rawal), the man who guarantees he will make him quit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Apunkachoice )〕 The film released worldwide on 26 October 2007, but was met with a lukewarm response from Indian critics and mixed response from overseas critics. The film did not perform well at the box office either, becoming one of the major disasters of the year. According to Kashyap, the film failed because, it was considered much ahead of its time, courtesy of its dark and unusual storyline comprising with elements of surrealism, fantasy, dream, reality, horror and dark humour which left critics and the cinema-goers baffled, this was frowned upon by Indian audiences, as it was unconventional, pretentious and they had never seen anything like it. ''No Smoking'' was nominated at several award ceremonies in 2008, primarily for the technical aspects of the film, including 3 Filmfare award nominations. Before a full cinematic release in India, the film was invited to be screened at the Rome Film Festival where it won huge appreciation from the audience and critics alike.〔 In 2011 the film was played at several film festivals in India and China, receiving unanimous applause and praise, as well as winning a number of awards. ==Synopsis== The story is about a man known only as 'K' (John Abraham), who is in his 30s and is a heavy chain-smoker. He is very confident in himself and very arrogant in nature. K is also revealed to have smoked spiked ganja (marijuana) and landed up in hospital due to it. His well-wishers have tried to make him quit but to no avail. Both his friends, Abbas Tyrewala (Ranvir Shorey) and the doctor who treats K's brother (played by Karan Makhija), offer to set up an appointment at a rehabilitation center called 'Prayogshaala' ('The Laboratory'), which they claim will rid K of his dreadful habit. K finally relents after his wife Anjali (Ayesha Takia) leaves him, unable to take the strain K's smoking places on their relationship. K decides to check out Prayogshaala, and meets Shri Shri Prakash Guru Ghantal Baba Bengali Sealdahwale (Paresh Rawal), the man who is to save him. When he gets to Kalkatta Karpets, the front for the unconventional rehab center, his Labyrinth-esque adventure starts. The method Prayogshaala uses to cure their patients of their addiction is 'fear'. Each time a patient gives in to their vice, Baba makes sure that something shocking happens to them. # The first offense is almost killing a loved one by keeping him/her in a chamber full of cigarette smoke the person has smoked in his entire life for a duration of 5 minutes. # The second offense is losing a finger. # The third offense is the death of a loved one. # The last offense is taking the soul of the person from his body although this offense is described very loosely. K refuses to sign the contract and pay the fee of 21,11,111 for his treatment but is forced to do so by Baba Bengali and his disciples. K keeps to the terms but fails twice and is punished. K is now very conscious about the third time. K meets an old friend who has returned from Cuba to sell cigars in India. He invites K to his launch event. K goes and is forced to put a cigar in his mouth. Thirty seconds later, he gets a phone call from the police that they are at his house, his wife is missing and possibly dead. He calls Baba and is told that for smoking, his "loved one" i.e. wife, has been killed by Baba for the third offense. He protests that he did not smoke and only put the cigarette and Baba apologizes for the mistake saying it is too late. He asks baba to tell the police about this, but the line goes dead and the phone number is non-existent on dialling. K's protests are ignored and even his friend, who lost his fingers, now seems to have all his fingers. The police do not believe K and force him to light up. Two minutes later, K gets a phone call that his brother committed suicide due to his smoking habit. K raves angrily at the police and is thrown in Jail. After getting bail, he discovers that Baba Bengali permits the sins to be done during Zero minute and he goes to a fair where he sees Baba just before he lights up, but cannot reach Baba. Suddenly the scene changes and K has woken up in a Russian army base with a call from his wife who asks why he believes she is dead. K is confused, but escapes from the base jumping into water and ends up in a ragged room from which he sees himself staring out from a hospital room. He sees his wife and Baba behind his suited self and they are telling him that the version he sees is his body. He calls out but no one can hear him because his body no longer hears his inner soul. Next part is a bit haphazard about what happens to the soul of K. But he wakes up to find his wife sleeping near him.When he goes to washroom, he finds that his two fingers are cut off as a punishment for smoking second time. Later he is seen recommending about "Prayogshala" to a friend while holding his snipped finger. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「No Smoking (2007 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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