NO SMOKING pictures
Exclusive pics, John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Anurag Kashyap, No Smoking
[oz note: here are the latest pictures from the sets of No Smoking taken by Manjeet...]
Some of the pictures in this album contain:
The location: Living Room of the Studio, with a glass roof top, giving plenty of natural light for the shot!
Sound and Camera unit with our stinking guy!
AK giving direction
Art department’s posters.
Art AD Shlok with AK, assistant Art Director Punita and Production designer Wasiq Khan.
Ayesha with her Mom, AK and other having a casual discussion
Dress dept’s assistant, Sunil and Shlok. Sunil n Shlok are ADs, who would be playing a small role of K’s office boys. Almost everybody on the sets have acted so far 
Anurag and John trying to improvise a difficult shot. The shot had long, tounge twisting dialouges, which John cracked in few takes with his own improvisation, which added that extra magic in the shot.
Bird’s view from the glass roof top.
Anurag explains a shot he needs. Cinematographer Rajeev Ravi and Production designer Wasiq Khan trying to follow the captain.
Your’s truly, Anurag, Gautam and Raj Kumar. Sumit took the shot. After the shoot Sumit and myself went for a play at Prithvi. Sumit should write about it.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Hack!
think all have been trying to do an ” Invisible man”
no pic there:o
- Manjeet, nice pics… need one where we can see Anurag behind the camera!!! Do you have one? :o
Question: what do you do that some pictures come out at a 60 degree and some odd funky angles… my neck hurts
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Another thing which a few readers have mentioned by email : No tete-a-tete with John?… and with Ayesha Takia? Are you afraid to approach her? (same goes to Kartik and Sumit) :d
Note to readers:
Due to some readers “STRONG” requests… no more of Manjeet’s No Smoking Coverage will be published till Manjeet gets us some good conversation with Ayesha and her thought process that went behind doing this movie and her honest feedback on the movie in general and especially her character
Sorry Manjeet… think of this project as your promotion ;)… in pressure. Aage Bado Manjeet… PFC ki naak ka sawal hain…… same challenge is given to Kartik and Sumit… whoever is the first to talk and publish their tete-a-tete with Ayesha will be sent a special gift by oz… the rest two will then be sent to Andaman jail to provide coverage of a documentary being made by some director…. for 25 days =))
Thanks paaji. Awesome stills. Are you guys on that set like everyday now??
Fantastic…Manjeet
“the rest two will then be sent to Andaman jail to provide coverage of a documentary being made by some director…. for 25 days” Lol!!!!!!!!!
“Are you afraid to approach her?”….I think i have recently over come the AA( Approach Anxiety)..anyone needa a crash course can contact me…right Oz?
- just noticed AK’s t-shirt – “If the system is fucked and you know it, clap your hands”
If Manjeet does not want to do that, then I would love to speak with her cos I just go ga-ga over her voice!
If Ayeshia Takia finds out that you were afraid of her then she would say, (from Socha Na Tha..) ‘Tum Dhakan Ho’ ;)
Hell Manjeet you can also take the inputs of Ayesha’s mom…that would be interesting as well…take her notes on how she allowed her to join movies..paste it here..so, i can show it to my mom and tell her its all good to be in movies..lol!!!
oz, it’s official.. you need to change the site’s name from PFC to AFC. addictionforcinema :D
I liked the angles u have used for the pics.. Nice work!!! one can get a lot of details by these using angles and it looks different and unique..
Hats off boss…
- Striker AFC – “addictedforcinema”, has a totally different meaning in the pickup world… Average Frustrated Chump… just a tidbit of info
btw manjeet.. great pics! i’m guessing you were talking about KK when u said “stinking guy”? i didn’t see him in any of the pics though..?
striker … I’m there in the green kurta in then pics…
There’s a wonderful snap of John and anurag talking and me behind ….
Manjeet … maza aa gaya .. Thanks for the snaps …
what is Rohit Khaitan doing? is he a part of ur film ?
Rohit is an AD or rather Director’s assistant. He is from the same college Anurag is from.
sheer joy! abhi ek baar phir se dekhta hoon
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I didn’t like ayesha takia’s dress and hairstyle in the pics..unless its “story ki demand”, yeh “work nahi karta hai”:d
Pradeep .. there are lots of things in the people which people may think ‘work nahi karta’ now.
Lets wait and watch.
Between, yes ayesha’s look is story ki demand.
Manjeet,
Congrats on your (KK and Sumeet’s also) on the job training. Chance is preparing you to learn direction, acting, photography and so many other things related to film making.:)
Hey if John’s dresses are not branded one, then who is giving him low waist trousers for suits? Does he like these or his body demands this:)
never been in to dress designing but have watched him in few films and he always have these low waist trousers. Pls try to know secret behind this:d
I dunno abt ayesha takia, but who’s the chick in the blue ganjee and jeans? standing next to anurag, also another piece of beauty i’ve relished on the photo series is the Arri 535, has to be the best gizmo in the world, boy i have a great feeling abt this film.
RK: Nowadays there is a fashion dessigner associated with everyfilm. I saw a label reading ‘Narendra Kumar’ on the shirts and suits. You have a good eye buddy
I am not aware of story behind low waist trousers 
“low waist trousers”
it’s da fashion. no seriously, K character sounds a bit dopey – and they usually wear lose clothes, that’s my view.
Manjeet:
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Normally in branded big logos they dont make low waist trousers when stiching suits for matured people. John must not be playing a character of 20 year old boy. His clothes resemble for a character doing some job or atleast taking care of a business. Newyorker makes low waist trousers for young students. If we see minutely body structure of John then his upper part of body(above the waistline) and his legs have a ratio near about 1, almost similar to Vinod Khanna’s, and I dont know why a designer would give low waist trouser for such body structure becasue it reveals this structure more.Though Vinod’s legs were bit taller than John’s.
My two paisa
Never drew a line on paper as far as clothes design is concerned but I find bit awkward clothes in these days films. In earlier times film satrs were having their own tailors like Ashok Kumar always prefered Chirag Din(CD), Dev Anand still prefers his own tailor. We dont see AB, Dharmendra etc in designer clothes in old films and as you said these days a designer is must to be associated with films.
Watch Vivah and see Shahid kapur wearing a short coat on jeans while he has gone to see and meet the girl in a small town. His most awkward dress in the film.:)
OMG RK you even watched Vivah:o
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You are the real cinema fanatic
Manjeet:
pls wait for my take on Vivah:)
and if you have not watched it yet, take out time to watch. I suppose you eat vegeterian meal also atleast 2 times a week:)
Have read that John is mostly in to vegeterian food and you are trying to get his kinda biceps and triceps and fit body structure.
RK:Would definitely like to read your views on Vivah!
I am only watching standout films ;)
…trying to save money so that I can extend my struggle in the industry. As a matter of fact I am a vege and have not eaten any kind of meat in my entire life!!
I am too lazy to have that kind of built.
Manjeet: your struggle is almost finished as you have got apprentice. Thanks to Anurag, Oz, PFC, NO Smoking’s team and your desire to be associated with films. Now act has begun and only thing is when you get right kind of project where you explore your vision about cinema:). Struglle has to be there as even established film makers do struggle with every new film. So pls dont cut off your budget as far as films are concerned.:)
Vivah is a complete vegie food, buddy:d
RK bhaiya I need to start as an aprentice myself
the pics can be better… please stop taking so busy frames…