Cigarette Ki Tarah (transl. Like a cigarette) is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romanticthriller film directed by Akashaditya Lama, featuring Bhoop Yaduvanshi, Prashant Narayanan, Madhurima Tuli and Sudesh Berry. The film was produced under the banner of P. Y. Films Pvt. Ltd. While the music was composed by Sudeep Banerjee, Kavita Seth, Ankur Mishra and Viraj Sawant, the lyrics have been written by Ajay Jhingran, Kaushal Kishore and Dev Shukla. Vivek Yadav and Longines Fernandes were the choreographers.
A dispute between the director and producers over the film's editing led to a lawsuit in the Mumbai High Court, and eventually to what the director called a "compromise" and an "edited version that did not meet my creative vision".[1]
A guy falls in love with a young, beautiful girl. This blind love leads him into deep trouble and further separates him from other people, like one man versus the entire world. In these dark situations, where one surely gives up on everything, he doesn't. He keeps on believing and trusting in his blind love, which eventually shows him all the ways to get out of trouble.
Critic Ankur Pathak of Rediff.com panned the film, giving it no stars and calling it a "half-heartedly created music video, which tries to convince itself that it is an actual film".[2] Shakti Shetty of Mid-Day said, "There are bad films and then there are films that shouldn't have been made in the first place. Cigarette Ki Tarah effortlessly falls into the latter category."[3]
