Friday
Oct262007
You couldn't make it up - but they did
Friday, October 26, 2007 
Heard about No Smoking, a new Bollywood movie? No, neither had I, until this morning. According to the Telegraph, it's "a government-sponsored anti-smoking paranoid thriller".
"John Abraham plays a chain-smoking, cock-of-the-walk executive called K who signs on for a hard-core quitting programme. There are wacky musical numbers, and an unwise equation between fumigation by fags and Holocaust gas chambers."
According to Planet Bollywood, the lyrics mostly revolve around depicting the harmful effects of smoking. Songs include 'Ash Tray' and 'Jab Bhi Ciggaret Jalti Hai, Main Jalta Hoon'.
You couldn't make it up. But they did.
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Reader Comments (1)
Bollywood films have always been fantastical, fairy tale excursions into film making. No change there then!
Disturbing though that the propaganda has reached this far into artistic endeavours.