No Smoking ticker to run through Bombay Velvet

Anurag Kashyap, who fought tooth and nail to remove the mandatory anti-smoking warnings from his last film Ugly and was even willing to go all the way to the Supreme Court, has agreed to let the ticker play throughout his new film Bombay Velvet.

A reliable source from the Censor Board informs: "Bombay Velvet  is set in the 1960s when smoking was considered fashionable in society and in films. The film is shot in smoky clubs with one or the other character constantly lighting up a cigarette. In terms of  the smoky ambiance, Bombay Velvet is  like Guru Dutt’s Aar Paar or Chetan Anand’s Taxi Driver. Considering the number of times the characters light up in Bombay Velvet, it would have been very distracting to have the anti-smoking ticker coming and going... far less distracting to just have the warning playing continuously in a small corner."

Bombay Velvet will release on May 15.