One of the biggest flops of Anurag Kashyap’s career is ‘Bombay Velvet’. The film had high expectations as it starred Ranbir Kapoor in a never-seen-before avatar. In a recent interview, Anurag Kashyap has reflected on the failure of this film which saw Ranbir with Anushka Sharma. He also appreciated Ranbir, adding that he can never go wrong. The film-maker also revealed that the box office failure of the film had a lasting impact not just on him but Ranbir’s movie choices.
Anurag Kashyap on ‘Bombay Velvet’ failure
Speaking about the pitfalls of handling big budgets, Kashyap admitted that the film suffered because he didn’t stay true to his original vision. He explained in an interview with Galatta Plus, “We sometimes go crazy with money, and I have seen that happening with Bombay Velvet. The film should have been made the way it was researched. But I did the way it was budgeted at. I also bought in all the bullshit that everybody threw at me. They told me, ‘When you can make such an amazing film with nobody in it, imagine what would happen if we get stars and big money?’ And we also saw what happened.”