Mumbai:
In one full tweet,
Bombay Velvet director Anurag Kashyap dispatched former colleague Ram Gopal Varma's rant against his film. After Mr Kashyap wrote in a Facebook note that
Bombay Velvet was "the film he had wanted to make," RGV tweeted:
Mr Kashyap, 42, had clearly lightened up after his emotional Facebook post and made the best comeback ever on Monday:
This might have silenced a lesser person but not RGV, resulting in this exchange:
Bombay Velvet opened amid much fanfare last Friday but has been panned by critics and ignored at the box office. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Anurag Kashyap defended his film, describing it as his "absolute personal favourite" and said that he was not "depressed or hiding."
Anurag Kashyap wrote
Satya, the film tha made RGV's name, as well as
Kaun? and the dialogues for
Shool. Things on Twitter got
Ugly after RGV directed a series of tweets at the film and his former colleague when Bombay Velvet released:
Bombay Velvet, a period piece set in the Mumbai of the '60s, has made only Rs 16 crores in three days so far - a performance described on Twitter by trade analyst Taran Adarsh as a 'debacle.'