Desicritics Comments on Movie Review: No Smoking - Arrogance Isn't Such a Bad Thing

Comment by Aditya

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:42:07 EDT

Thanks Sujai. Nice to know that my review could sustain your interest beyond the opening sentence...

Comment by temporal

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:27:05 EDT

thank you aditya :) (and i see you have discovered frances pritchett too)

Comment by Sujai

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:52:17 EDT

I don't read many movie reviews. I read this one. I saw the first sentence, I got intrigued. I was almost about to hit 'back' button, then I saw the next sentence. A good one. A very nice one.

Comment by Aditya

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:40:25 EDT

Temporal, Thanks for appreciating this review... Coming to your point about Ghaib... For a die-hard Ghalib fan like me, using a term like arrogant for him does not come easy. It actually depends on how we define arrogant. I was referring to arrogance in a positive sense. Moreover, the people around him definitely considered him to be arrogant. If you have read Ghalib, you wouldn't disagree that a few of his verses were extremely self-indulgent, where it is obvious that they were purely written for personal pleasure, knowing very well that no one will get them. That's the reason I compared Anurag Kashyap and Ghalib. Anyway, I retract my statement Ghalib was NOT arrogant. ;)

Comment by temporal

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:59:51 EDT

aditya: this is one of your best review will watch the movie now a vehement disagreement ghalib was not arrogant! yes, he knew his worth...was not exactly humble...maybe an elitist (that is another debate)...but he certainly was a curmudgeon...and an iconoclast but NOT arrogant! kindly retract;)