Synopsis
No Smoking (2007) is available to watch online on iFILM — an Indian surrealist thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap, with John Abraham in the lead and Paresh Rawal and Ranvir Shorey in support. The film draws from Stephen King's short story "Quitters, Inc." from the Night Shift collection.
K is a successful, heavy-smoking businessman with zero interest in changing. His wife leaves, his life starts to fracture — he lights another cigarette. A friend steers him toward Baba Bangali's rehabilitation lab, which promises a hundred percent success rate. The price of that success turns out to be something far darker than a nicotine patch. As the program tightens its grip, the film shifts from grounded drama into something stranger and more unsettling, turning what looks like an anti-addiction parable into a study of control, autonomy and what a man gives up when he agrees to be fixed.
Kashyap shoots it with a deliberately off-kilter rhythm that mirrors K's deteriorating grip on reality. Stream No Smoking online on iFILM.
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