''Cigarette ki tarah Ki Tarah'' () is a 2012 Indian

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-language romantic

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directed by

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, featuring Bhoop Yaduvanshi,

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and

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. 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

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. A dispute between the director and producers over the film's editing led to a lawsuit in the

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, and eventually to what the director called a "compromise" and an "edited version that did not meet my creative vision".

Plot

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.

Cast

* Bhoop Yaduvanshi as Nikhil Dabur *

as Rajesh Fogat *

as Jessica *

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as Danny D'Gama *

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as Nikhil Dabur's Father * Monika Singh as Prostitute Girl *RajKumar as Ajay Nikhil's Friend *

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as Corrupt Police Inspector

Soundtrack

The

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is composed by Sudeep Banerjee,

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of it are written down by Ajay Jhingran, Kaushal Kishore, Dev Shukla and Sudarshan Goel. The songs are sung by Tochi Raina,

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and Sudeep Banerjee.

Reception

Critic Ankur Pathak of

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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". Shakti Shetty of ''

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'' 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.""Movie review: Cigarette Ki Tarah"
''

'', 15 December 2012.

References

External links

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Official Theatrical Promo
2012 films Indian romantic thriller films 2010s romantic thriller films 2010s Hindi-language films 2010s Indian films