So, does the film follow a disconnected script instead of the usual straight narrative style?
Correct, but it all comes together. It is disconnected in the process but it all comes together in the end. It seriously screws around with the audience’s mind (smiles). They’ll always be trying to connect the dots. Something like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Absolutely. It belongs to that genre. Is it true that when you narrated the script to Boney Kapoor, he asked you to go back to the planet you came from? Ya, he said no one in India would make this film. Did he mean you were being too idealistic? He meant I was mad and just indulging in mental masturbation. B’wood goes from sexy to sleazy Yet you didn’t give up hope, what kept you going? Things like this don’t require courage, but a certain conviction and doggedness, to keep at it till you get it. Where has No Smoking been shot? I’ve shot for it in Bhuj, Dharavi, the entire Mumbai city, in Siberia and on the sets. Siberia was tough because I’ve never seen that kind of a cold, where your legs would freeze. The terrain was
