After a failed attempt to make '' Allwyn Kalicharan '' in 2003 , Kashyap started working on '' Black Friday '' ( 2007 ) , a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings . The Bombay high court put a stay on the release of the film , until the judgement in the bomb blasts case was delivered . It was decided after a petition filed by a group of 1993 bomb blasts accused , challenging the release of the film based on their case . The film got censorship clearance in 2007 , and was released after two years meeting universal acclaim . Nikhat Kazmi gave the film a three star out of five rating and mentioned : " It was indeed a difficult film to make , yet the director has managed to grapple with all the loose threads and put them together in a composite whole . So much so , the film moves like a taut thriller , without ideology colouring the sepia frames . " The same year , Kashyap adapted Stephen King 's short story " Quitters , Inc. " into '' No Smoking '' . A surrealistic thriller about a chain-smoker who gets trapped in the maze of a person who guarantees will make him quit smoking . The film starring John Abraham , Ayesha Takia , Ranvir Shorey and Paresh Rawal in the leads with music by Vishal Bhardwaj , premiered at the Rome Film Festival . '' No Smoking '' received an overwhelming negative reception and failed at the box-office . CNN-IBN 's Rajeev Masand called it a " colossal disappointment " . His final release of the year was '' Return of Hanuman '' , an animation film about adventures of the Hindu god Hanuman
1993 Bombay bombings
1993 Bombay bombings
Anurag Kashyap