NO SMOKING is about K (John Abraham). Simply K. A 30 year old man who thinks of himself as quite smart and refuses to listen to anyone, big or small. Confident about himself and whatever he does, he is a chain smoker in the true sense. Catching hold of this habit from a very young age, he hasn’t looked back ever since.

His well wishers (read his wife and friends) have tried in vain to see to it that he lets go off this habit but all to no avail.

Will he finally manage to come out of this or will he only dig his own grave?

The man who could save him was Baba Bengali Sealdahwale [Paresh Rawal]. A simple looking man who could just be found at every nook and corner, he was autocratic and dictatorial but ensured guaranteed results. He has his own way of curing his patients. It’s in fact quite simple. They only have to follow all his orders. And if they don’t, he turns out to be their worst enemy.

Would K be next in line?

Well, K was not alone as he had a pretty wife in the form of Anjali [Ayesha Takia]. As a young woman who cared for her hubby in spite of his addiction to smoking, she herself was addicted to television soaps. K also had a pretty secretary for company, Honey [yet again played by Ayesha Takia].

Who was she? And in her, did K found an alternate to his wife?

Meanwhile K also had to contend with his friend Abbas Tyrewala [Ranvir Shorey] who himself was a cigarette addict once and had introduced smoking to K. What made him look for a solution? His love for his wife. And what made him cure his habit? Baba Bengali. This was the reason why he introduced K to Baba.

Will he manage to help his friend out?

An Anurag Kashyap film, NO SMOKING is, as per the film maker himself, a bizarre piece of cinema. With music by Vishal Bhardwaj and Kumar Mangat as the producer, NO SMOKING releases all over today.

Aditya (Shahid Kapur), a defeated industrialist, is even more broken as the girl he loves is getting married. Unable to muster up the courage to return home, he drifts out of the gathering and aimlessly boards a train, bounding away into the night.

As destiny would have it, on the train he meets Geet (Kareena Kapoor) – a beautiful but annoyingly talkative girl who is leaving Mumbai to go her hometown – Bhatinda (Punjab). Later, she has plans of eloping with her boyfriend.

Geet irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train. As she tries to get him back on the train, she ends up missing it and the two find themselves stranded on a desolate station with no luggage or money.

Begins the idyllic journey through the exuberant North Indian heartland in which this odd couple will make their way through buses and taxis and camel-carts, crossing Highways and deserts and lakes, meeting all kinds of people, to reach her house in Punjab …….

On arrival, Geet’s family mistakes the two for lovers. Before this misconception can be cleared, Geet escapes to her boyfriend in Manali. Aditya leaves with her, confirming the suspicion that they are lovers. In Manali, Aditya feels empowered to return to Mumbai and resurrect his ailing business.

Life takes a positive turn and Aditya begins to do well. One day Geet’s family who think that she is with him confronts Aditya. He is shocked to learn that Geet has not returned home. He takes it upon himself to find her. He finally tracks her down in a Himalayan town and begins another journey to reach Bhatinda and flow into the colors and conceptions of a loud and happy North Indian family!

How their separate journeys become one, forms the destination of JAB WE MET, a beautiful and captivating saga of made-for-each-other love. Lilting, musical, amusing and packed with mischievous contrivances – this breezy fun-filled romantic comedy set in cultural North India looks like it’s ready to recreate the magical era of the 90s, in the form of Aditya and Geet, being essayed by Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor.

Directed by Imtiaz Ali of SOCHA NA THA fame, JAB WE MET with hit music by Pritam promises to be a breezy entertainer and releases worldwide this Friday.

SPEED - Now don’t get confused with the namesake ’speedy’ thriller which released around a decade back and was a huge success worldwide. Instead, SPEED is inspired from another Hollywood hit, CELLULAR, which too was a racy thriller that kept it’s audience at the edge of the seats.

The basic plot of SPEED is simple though the situations that the protagonists go through are quite complex to say the least. The central character in the film is Urmila who only has one device which could help her survive from her kidnappers - her cell phone!

But first of all how and why has she been kidnapped? Well, she is the wife of an undercover MI5 agent (Sanjay Suri) who has to follow certain instructions as dictated by criminals in tow Aftab Shivdasani and Sophie Chaudhary. In an attempt to use Sanjay Suri to aid the assassination of India’s Prime Minster, they put pressure on him by first kidnapping his wife and later his kid.

In some other part of the city, London, where all the action is taking place, is a happy-go-lucky character Zayed Khan who is busy wooing his girlfriend Tanushree Dutta. But in the midst of all this ‘masti’ and ‘maza’ he gets a call.

A call which he would have never anticipated.
A call for which he had to immediately find a solution.
A call which may result in him loosing his girlfriend forever.

Still, he chooses this call over everything else. He does that because on the other side of the call is Urmila for whom he is her final hope….and the last call. Because if the call disconnects, she is not in a position to make another call! This is her last and final chance of survival and she has to hold on to it.

Now what Zayed has to do is follow instructions of a total stranger, give back some instructions and last but definitely not the least, act as her only moral support. He has to make sure that the call doesn’t disconnect, the assassins do not make their move, he doesn’t come in the way of the criminals and Urmila is safe from their clutches.

Meanwhile London cops too get a hint of something going fishy during the PM’s visit and go all out to make sure that they get their best men on duty. One such man is Ashish Chaudhary who leaves aside his personal obligations and makes sure that he is up there for the call of the duty!

Zayed has to save Urmila
Ashish has to save the PM
Sanjay has to ensure that the assassins’ plans are foiled
Aftab and Sophie have to ensure that their plans materialize at whatever cost

And all of this promises to happen at a ’speed’ which is sure to take you through a roller coaster ride which begins tomorrow i.e. 19th October!