Bombay Velvet is Anurag Kashyap's Aag, Rants Ram Gopal Varma on Twitter

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet opened on Friday only to be skewered by critics and ignored at the box office and his colleague Ram Gopal Varma is gloating over the film's dismal performance on Twitter.

RGV, who's clearly still burnt by the disaster that was Aag, ranted:
 

The bottom line is everyone makes an AAG and till he makes his own AAG he will bitch about others AAGS until he too burns in his own AAG

- Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 15, 2015

 

Because I am 1st maker of AAG I think I have experience and right to lay them on a velvety cushion nd console the future AAGIANS

- Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 15, 2015

 

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

In another life, Anurag Kashyap and RGV were collaborators. Anurag wrote 1998's Satya, the film that made RGV's name. He also wrote Kaun? and the dialogues for Shool before falling out massively with RGV and later dismissing him publicly on Koffee With Karan saying, "Ram Gopal Varma was, not Ram Gopal Varma is."

He also derided his erstwhile mentor's much-reviled Sholay remake, ambitiously titled Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, which crashed and burned in spectacular fashion.

And now there's Bombay Velvet.