'Put That Vodka Aside and Sleep': Anurag Kashyap's Tweet Exchange With Ram Gopal Varma

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:
 

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl "I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me"

Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 17, 2015

Mr Kashyap, 42, had clearly lightened up after his emotional Facebook post and made the best comeback ever on Monday:
 

@RGVzoomin sir i love you too much.. now put that Vodka aside and sleep.. lots of kisses

Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) May 17, 2015

This might have silenced a lesser person but not RGV, resulting in this exchange:
 

@anuragkashyap72 well sir for ur info I stopped drinking ...I am not into kissing men but love you too

Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 18, 2015

 

@RGVzoomin then lets have filter coffee together soon to celebrate the AAG..

Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) May 18, 2015

 

@anuragkashyap72 Sir u very well know that I luv u more than u luv me and I suggest that we both have coffee with Karan

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 18, 2015

 

@anuragkashyap72 And in the course of having Coffee with Karan maybe we can learn from him how not to make Aag's and make Kuch Kuchs

Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 18, 2015

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:
 

There's a very thin line between confidence and arrogance and only Velvets and AAGS can show the difference

Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 15, 2015

 

A Slumdog making a film with millions of dollars will not necessarily make a Slumdog Millionaire

Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 15, 2015

 

Karan Johar is the only Velvet and the rest is coarse

Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 15, 2015

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.'