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Another movie that goes straight into ‘cinophile’s pick’. This movie has been really getting some bad press & reviews, and naturally so , for those reviewers who have grown on a steady diet of subhash ghai & karan johar ,this movie goes way beyond their comprehensions. For those who might have preferred a mayapuri over a kafka , this is surely not for them.
This is not your average bollywood movie. It is dark, atmospheric, surreal, dreamy, in a nutshell exactly opposite of what anurag did with black friday which was as real & stark as it gets.
 
More lynchian than anything else , no smoking is visually compelling to the extent of being unnerving to watch. It is an involving peice & requires a dedicated watch, possible even multiple viewings to get to the soul of the movie. Infact the whole movie felt like a unexplainable nighmare , confusing, scary. We are absolutely in lynch terriory here.
I belive the dwarf in the underground room was a soft tribute to david lynch’s infamous twin peaks red room dward dream sequence of agent cooper. Even the scene where 14yr old john & ranvir are smoking is shown as a tv sequence with a laughter track playing, absolutely reminded me of the bunny scene in inland empire, perhaps a soft tribute there as well to the master.And No it is nothing like quitters inc , the short story by Stephen King, Quitters Inc (also made as a short segment in Cats eye) was more or less a commercial fare.
 
The basic premise if of a guy trying to quit smoking only because his wife threatens to leave him , he goes to a bangali baba on the recommendation of a friend & then the nightmares begins. The movie stays true to its genre throughout, assisted with some really gripping camerawork creates a very haunting experience.
 
John Abraham is surprisingly good here, he has been wooden, expressionless for most of his career, but here as ‘K’ one can really not picture anyone else. He has that suaveness, that arrogance that K had , something like what he did in Taxi 911 , and also in the scenes where he breaks up, he has really done an exceptional job. Paresh rawal is easily one of the best actors in the industry & be it any role he has done it exceptionally well. Ayesha Takia looks like she needs to lose about a 100 pounds or more before coming back on screen again. Ranvir shourey is good again in a character role , he has really been experimenting with his getup & look, i loved what he did in ‘Bheja Fry’ & here again as ‘K’’s squint eyed friend.
 
More power to Mr Kashyap, may his tribe increase.