This is epic stuff! A war of words between Ram Gopal Varma and Anurag Kashyap

Once upon a time, at the very beginning of their Bollywood journey, both were ‘friendly colleagues’. Anurag Kashyap had written the script for Satya, that turned Ram Gopal Varma into a household name overnight. Anurag even wrote the dialogues for one of Varma’s other successful movies, Shool.

But, several yars down the line, these two have turned foes. The proof- a very verbal and public Twitter spat over Anurag’s recent box office debacle, Bombay Velvet. Sample this:

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

My velvety tears for the maker of a disaster like AAG are for the tragedy,that by being the butt of it,he himself doesn't get to fuck it

— 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

And RGV being himself, the tirade didn’t stop at just that and went into the name-calling territory.

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

For the record, Bombay Velvet, which was touted to be Kashyap’s dream project, opened to bad critical and commercial reception despite having stars like Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in the leading roles.

However, the fact that his dream project gave some of the people nightmares did not stop Kashyap from standing up for his film and posting a long note on his Facebook account, about how he firmly believes in the film.

You can check the note here.

Reacting to Kashyap’s stand, Varma posted another of his philosophical tweets. Here is what happened after that:

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

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

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) May 17, 2015

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

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

As a matter of fact, RGV, Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap go back a long way. As mentioned earlier, Varma and Kashyap have worked together for Satya while Johar and Varma have had twitfights in the past, over Johar’s movies My Name Is Khan and Student Of The Year.

Well, all we can say is, if coffee can bring these master film-makers together, we won’t mind them sharing a few cuppas with each other for the love of cinema. However, that is not going to happen soon, because if reports are to be believed, Anurag Kashyap is moving to France for an indefinite period of time, which according to him is the most cinema-friendly country in the world.

Here’s hoping that Kashyap comes back to give Bollywood more jewels like Gulaal, Gangs of Wasseypur and Dev.D.