siddharthkan

Irritating show right from the start. Repetitive Dialogues ("My son is trying to communicate with me")Stupid stories. I watched the first five episodes thinking that Kiefer's presence will lift the show later but show has disaster written all over it. Maybe we expected too much from him after 24. This show deserves to be cancelled. Kiefer should create some distance between himself and the show to revive his career otherwise it is bound to sink with this show. Tim Kring, it seems has run out of ideas. It sucks as bad as his "Heroes" in its last two seasons. There are so many other great shows currently on. Tim should watch them to get some ideas. TV is meant to give you wholesome entertainment. One is not expected to watch a show with with a father trying to connect with his child by running around the city looking for the numbers. Must be fun for the Father but highly irritating for the audience.

I just saw the movie after an year of its release. I can now understand why it was a flop or only seen by a few film aficionados in India. Indian audience is not ready for such path breaking, abstract and surreal cinematic experience. Maybe that's the reason why our filmmakers are also readily catering to the lowest common denominator. There is rarely any director or producer who is ready to invest his time and money to create art rather than potboilers.

Slowly and steadily, all this is changing. Directors like Anurag Kashyap, Amir Khan, Dibakar Bannerjee,Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, Sriram Raghavan, Vishal Bharadwaj etc. who are doing things differently. If more directors transcend the mercenary concerns and come up with the films like these then I am sure the audience will also evolve and seek out better movies than the regular song and dance, money crunchers like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

No Smoking is the clean entertainment for the intellect. There is no skin show, no dance numbers, no clichéd dialogues what it has is a focused story, thematic songs (some selling out to commercial cinema, but all songs are apt and add to the story, great acting by all especially, John Abraham and Paresh Rawal. The movie is very Indian in its look but very International in its feel. One is reminded of Lynch's Lost Highway and Blue Velvet other movies like Fight Club, etc. While watching it.

Great Movie Universally Recommended