Rajkumar Santoshi to act in No Smoking
Courtesy:
IndiaFM
Thursday,
November
02,
2006
This
will
be
one
of
the
most
unique
casting
for
a
Hindi
film
that
Anurag
Kashyap
has
done.
For
his
upcoming
film
No
Smoking,
Anurag
has
signed
up
filmmaker
Rajkumar
Santoshi
to
play
a
pivotal
role.
Santoshi
will
be
playing
the
character
of
a
strange,
talkative
doctor
who
persuades
John
Abraham
to
quit
smoking.
John
plays
the
character
of
a
chain
smoker
in
the
film
who
decides
to
go
to
a
rehab
centre
to
quit
the
habit.
Anurag
says
that
when
he
wrote
the
character
of
the
doctor,
he
couldn't
think
of
anyone
else
but
Rajkumar
Santoshi
to
play
it.
This however isn't the first time that Santoshi will be acting in a film. He was earlier seen in Santosh Sivan's Halo in 1997 which was a children's film in which he played the father of one of the kids in the movie. He apparently had a very strong screen presence playing the funny character in that movie.
Another interesting character in the film is that of Ranvir Shorey. Ironically, his character name is named Abbas Tyrewala. It is said that Tyrewala was to play the role but then he opted out. Hence, Kashyap thought of naming the character after him.
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