Posts Tagged ‘The No Smoking Diary’

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    NO SMOKING Coverage continues
    The scenes of K’s office were to be shot. The location was Pixion labs, Bandra, which is a post production set up. Kartik was stinking like hell :o I don’t think he took a shower after the airport scene. Anurag made him wash his face and shave in deception of offering one more role:) Kiding. Guys Kartik is in one more role!Read his postJ John’s...
    by Manjeet Singh at November 27th, 2006 at 05:11 am
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    Kartik, Manjit and PFC – Bollywood Debut in No Smoking !!!!!
    Kartik, Manjit and PFC – Bollywood Debut in No Smoking !!!!! Ok let me start off in typical filmy fashion … Int Kartik’s Office, 6 pm Got a call from Manjeet. He said “No smoking shoot in Airport today at 9 pm… Need a Software Enigeer – South Indian looking- Laptop Carrying Guy as an extra. Will you come ???” I said “Neki...
    by kartik krishnan at November 23rd, 2006 at 01:11 am
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    No Smoking – News Flash
    Update 3: The team needed a character from South India who carries a laptop bag on his shoulder. So Manjeet called Kartik along with Sumit (an upcoming PFC Author who will exclusively be writing on Theater)… Scene : Airport The camera starts with focusing on the 3 PFC authors… as it moves on to catch John Abraham passing by them, towards the airport…...
    by oz at November 22nd, 2006 at 11:11 am
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    No Smoking on sets Coverage….How it started!
                After been on PFC for few weeks, I could feel the minds of other bloggers. I remember the days, when I use to chat on yahoo in Bollywood chat room hoping to find people passionate about cinema. I was able to find just one girl from Delhi on yahoo, who was doing Mass. Comm. We discussed quality film makers such as Sudhir Mishra, Anurag et al. She...
    by Manjeet Singh at November 22nd, 2006 at 02:11 am
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    No Smoking On Sets pictures! Part 4
    {Update – the pics have been fixed… enjoy } The first few pictures are of the 2nd Unit crew, which was headed by Raj Kumar(blue t-Shirt), with Kalpesh (AC holding the camera), Gautam (AD) and few other people. Anurag has a habit of playing video game on a small digital hand held gadget with a match stick:) The title ‘Director zameen pe aur actor aasman...
    by Manjeet Singh at November 21st, 2006 at 06:11 am
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    No Smoking on Sets Part 3
    Its 12:00 am in the morning. The wrap up was supposed to be at 9:00 pm. John is giving a shot, suddenly gets aggravated and goes,” Don’t you know how to clap.” He walks off the shot and tells Anurag,” You know I got into an accident, my knees are paining. What is that guy doing?” The clap AD is Sunil. He is in a state of shock. Can not believe what has happened....
    by Manjeet Singh at November 21st, 2006 at 04:11 am
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    NO SMOKING- happy days are here again
    finally i can say that i am happy..things are going great..John has opened up tremendously..he has become so uninhibited..ayesha takia is a natural..now the complete onus of a fucked up film lies with me..if anything goes wrong, it will be my fault..we improvised so many scenes..i still am shooting K’s house..i am also lagging by two days on the house schedule.. yesterday...
    by Anurag Kashyap at November 19th, 2006 at 11:11 am
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    No Smoking Coverage Pictures… Part2
    {oz note: here are the pictures Manjeet took on the sets of No Smoking… This is PFC exclusive. The pictures of No Smoking appear on PFC, thanks to Anurag and his gang!}       …
    by Manjeet Singh at November 17th, 2006 at 09:11 am
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    No Smoking Coverage Nov16….I
    It was around 3:00PM, when I arrived on the sets, a penthouse on 31st floor of a tower in Worli. When we met Anurag was all smiles, and introduced me to various unit members as a member from PFC! Everyone was so nice that I felt I belong to this group in just a few minutes. Wow what a spectacular view!! One could see our beautiful Mumbai Nagariya’s coastline...
    by Manjeet Singh at November 17th, 2006 at 07:11 am
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    NO SMOKING-Paresh rawal to be my Gabbar
    Ramu has got his Gabbar..and i have found mine..finally..he plays “Shri shri prakash Guru ghantal baba bangali sealdah wale” in my film..the role for which we chased everyone from Pankaj Kapoor to Big B to Irrfan .. we now need to discuss the look and the language and the atmosphere..the nether world that he thrives in.. Adnan Sami sang our first song..The...
    by Anurag Kashyap at November 11th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
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    NO SMOKING-Frustrations galore
    The reason we are so behind as a a filmmaking nation is that we don’t love making films..since i started this blog there are only advices and complains from the filmmaking fraternity..am drunk out of my mind..my sound equipment hung up on me..i couldn’t take the vertical shot of the hospital because the camera didn’t have a vertical tilt grip..the problem...
    by Anurag Kashyap at November 7th, 2006 at 12:11 am
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    NO SMOKING-Finally begun..
    Finally shooting has begun..finally Ayesha Takia is locked in..finally major problems have begun..The day before the shoot, finally when K(john abraham)’s car arrived,,i really didn’t know what i had gotten myself into..Pajero from the fiat era..that looked like a beaten up safari..now how can my character who lives on the 35th floor in worli, signs cheques...
    by Anurag Kashyap at October 27th, 2006 at 06:10 am
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    NO SMOKING-hmmmmmmm so many decisions still not taken
    Spent yesterday waiting for John to get free from his meeting..saw the thai-combodian-hongkong movie Dog bite dog..outstanding..FACEOFF meets OLDBOY ..rajkumar got upset with me because i asked someone to get me tickets for DON.. Raj k.-”how can you watch other films in the middle of your shoot”.. ME .-”sameway like you have the sexual urge 24/7″ he...
    by Anurag Kashyap at October 18th, 2006 at 12:10 am
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    NO SMOKING-8 years in the making
    It all started eight years ago when i was shooting for SATYA that Ramu told me a story about a chain smoker who gets into trouble with someone who hates smoking( a variation of which he shot in DARNA MANA HAI)..that sparked off an idea..which Ramu instantly laughed and scoffed at..i thought there was something in there but i didn’t know what..i toyed with it for...
    by Anurag Kashyap at October 16th, 2006 at 02:10 pm
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    NO SMOKING-three days to go
    I am so scared..i feel like i don’t know anything..three days to go and we don’t have an actress..ayesha takia or priyanka chopra..paresh rawal or irfan khan..god knows..irfan is not available before he is done with a mighty heart..i hope raj kumar santoshi doesn’t ditch us..will be great to have him act in the film..we have locked john abraham, ranveer...
    by Anurag Kashyap at October 16th, 2006 at 03:10 am
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