Bombay Velvet: Day 1 collection disappoints, Ram Gopal Varma calls it Anurag Kashyap's Aag

Anurag Kashyap's much hyped Bombay Velvet opened with tepid response at the box-office on Friday and it is not a good news for Ranbir Kapoor.

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Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in a still from Bombay Velvet

Anurag Kashyap's much hyped Bombay Velvet opened with tepid response at the box-office on Friday and it is not a good news for Ranbir Kapoor.

The actor's last solo release about one and a half year ago, Besharam, had garnered four times the collection of Bombay Velvet on its first day.

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Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted the figures, which might shake up Ranbir Kapoor and force him to re-think his strategy.

Anurag Kashyap's first mega-budget movie has garnered not-so-exciting reviews with critics blaming the director's over-confidence for the debacle. Almost all the critics lament that overbearing grandeur has killed the substance of the film.

Last week's release Piku stands to benefit the most from Bombay Velvet's dismal performance. The film has already collected Rs 44 crore. Another film which stands to gain is Akshay Kumar's Gabbar Is Back. Released on May 1, the film has earned Rs 79.56 crore so far and is still going strong in small centres.

Meawhile, director Ram Gopal Varma has declared Bombay Velvet as Anurag Kashyap's Aag, even before the verdict is out.

RGV, who seems to have still not recovered from the Aag fiasco (disastrous Sholay re-make), took to Twitter to rant about the Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar- starrer.





Interestingly, Anurag Kashyap and RGV are former colleagues. They worked together on one of India's finest films, Satya. Anurag wrote Satya. He also penned Kaun and dialogues for Shool which was produced by Varma.