Stephen King met David Lynch Inside the head of Anurag Kashyap... A movie made from Stephen King's short story 'Quitters, Inc', that's the idea I had about No Smoking before watching it.
Well.. yeah and NO.
'Quitters, Inc' is about a guy, a chain smoker, who gets mixed up with a company that will stop any kind of addiction by any means.
The movie has somewhat the same concept.
And though it begins as the short story, on the way it begins to turn in to something else. Reality and fantasy gets mixed up. Dreams and reality begins to merge. The movie transforms into David Lynch from Stephen King.
From the Story, Direction, Cinematography, Music to the use of surrealism, fantasy, dreams, reality, fear and humor are great.
Most importantly, just like a Lynch movie, this can't be summed up to a single meaning.
We can accept what's shown just as that, (even that can be explained in few different ways). Or we could find out some hidden stories inside the symbols.
No smoking is not just a film, it's an experience that one can feel and understand in any way they want.
A mind numbing surrealistic neo-noir psychological thriller..
A Lynchian masterpiece..
Have seen more than 600 Hindi movies in nearly every genre there is, Never have seen a Hindi movie like this.
10/10