Talk:No Smoking (2007 film)/GA1

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Reviewer: Seattle (talk · contribs) 19:00, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Comments:

• No DAB links, a few dead links

• File:No Smoking (Poster).jpg: Source URL is dead; please find an archive of the link, possible here.

• under the banners of Eros Entertainment and Big Screen Entertainment Pvt. what does "under the banners" mean?

• appears in an Item number. watch caps

• mixed response from overseas critics "response" should be plural

• becoming one of the major disasters of the year it made money, according to our infobox. Why was it one of the "major disasters of the year"? What does that phrase mean?

• According to Kashyap, the film failed because, it was considered much ahead of its time, courtesy of its dark and unusual storyline comprising with elements of surrealism, fantasy, dream, reality, horror and dark humour which left critics and the cinema-goers baffled, this was frowned upon by Indian audiences, as it was unconventional, pretentious and they had never seen anything like it. this is a run-on sentence, without much meaning, altogether

• In 2011 the film was played at several film festivals in India and China, receiving unanimous applause and praise, as well as winning a number of awards. I would check the reference for what "a number of awards" constituted, but it's dead...

• I don't follow the final paragraph of the "Plot" section.

• Overall, the article is written with poor English. Some highlights:

• The film was made on huge budget and at the time when it sank at the box office, the director Kashyap fell into depression not expecting the critics to lash at it.

• Due to the film having a complex storyline, when Kashyap was auditioning Abraham he read him a badly written fake script title Lapata (Lost), which Abraham inclined to

• Kashyap explained that the film has nothing to do with quitting smoking but relatively about the state of mind, which refers to the mood or the mental state of the films protagonist, K.

• The music rights were sold to Eros Entertainment and were released in September 2007. the music rights or the soundtrack?

• Questionable statements:

• No Smoking is notable as being the only Bollywood film which can have multiple interpretations I highly, highly doubt this

• one can’t be sure of this album on a stand alone basis this doesn't sound like critical acclaim

• The article further overuses quotations in the "critical reception" and soundtrack "reception" sections.

I'd recommend that this article receives a copy-edit before another nomination. For now, however, due to poor English, overuse of quotations, and some questionable statements, I'm quickfailing. Seattle (talk) 19:00, 2 April 2015 (UTC)