Bipasha Basu created waves with her item number Phoonk de in the movie No Smoking but now she has taken a complete u-turn and decided not to promote smoking. In her upcoming movie, Pankh the director of the movie Sudipto Chattopadhyay wanted Bips to smoke on screen for a particular scene but she turned him down on the face.

She herself prides on being a fitness freak and to promote something she hates is not what she wanted to do. Now as the scene was of vital importance the director came up with another idea and asked Bips if she could just hold a lighted up cigarette but she even refused to that making her stand even stronger.If she does that, it will be like promoting it and she does not want to do that.

She said that moreover the role in this one did not require her to smoke. If it were the requirement of the script, she would have gone ahead with the smoking scene but not in Pankh. She has earlier also turned down a smoking scene inside the movie Corporate. The director clarifies the song was a smoky one and so in the beginning of the song they wanted the cigarette smoke coming out of her mouth.

Eventually they went ahead with the scene by placing a canister in front of her, which emitted smoke from it giving the same feel to the video. She will also be seen in a Bengali movie Shob Charitro Kalponik that has been directed by Rituparno Da. The movie will show the story of a wife who finds out more about her husband through his poetry.