No Smoking

K

Anjali / Annie

Shri Shri Prakash Guru Ghantal Baba Bangali Sealdah Wale

Abbas Tyrewala

Chacha

Woman in Burkha

Dancer / Singer

Rajendra Kishan Dhingra

J

Guruji's goon

Dancer / Singer (uncredited)

Man in the elevator (uncredited)

Director Anurag Kashyap's friend Kay Kay Menon was the first choice for the main lead role but Kay Kay declined saying that he should cast an actor having stardom, so Anurag went to Shah Rukh Khan. SRK agreed to do the film but when he read the entire script, he commented that he would love to work with Kashyap in the future but since this film promotes "anti smoking" feelings, he will not do it. This is where John Abraham who was the only other mainstream actor to have replied to Kashyap's sms entered the scene. Abraham loved the script and agreed to do it spot on.

About halfway through the film one character says a dialogue, while launching his cigars in India, which goes like "'Beedi Jalaai le' ke is 'vishal' desh mein, cigar 'gulzar'" (In this 'Vishal' (huge) country of 'Beedi jalaai le' (smoking), cigar is 'Gulzar' (flourishing or pleasant)). This dialogue is a cleverly put tribute to the following: Vishal Bhardwaj - the music director and producer of this film (and a good friend of Anurag Kashyap), the lyrics writer of the film Gulzar (a close friend of both Vishal Bharadwaj and Anurag Kashyap) and the song 'Beedi Jalaai Le' from Vishal's then recently released movie Omkara (2006)

John Abraham who quit smoking, had to smoke 99 cigarettes a day to get into the character which resulted in his lungs getting affected.