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鈥淚鈥檓 in a country where my films were banned and I鈥檓 still making movies; my films bombed and I鈥檓 still making movies. I took the audience for granted.鈥?/p>. I was experimenting with narrative storytelling. In conversation with Bharathi Pradhan, Ramesh Sippy and Rajkumar Hirani about the evolution of cinema, Anurag acknowledged the things that led to the film鈥檚 downfall 鈥?his arrogance being one them. For me the biggest motivator is failure, it is the best teacher. I stepped back and became so vulnerable with all the negativity in the press that I allowed the film to become what it became.At a panel discussion during IIT B鈥檚 ongoing festival Mood I, director Anurag Kashyap addressed the debacle of Bombay Velvet. Gangs of Wasseypur was also a narrative but there printed velvet china Factory was a voiceover explaining everything.

With Bombay Velvet, I refused to explain and that鈥檚 how the narrative failed. It was such a time lapse. 鈥淏ombay Velvet lost so much money that it was the combined cost of all my movies put together. Till date when I go to sleep, I play the whole film in my head and re-edit it. People did not know the brief Jazz period in those days and taking people uninitiated, into that era and making an art film worth `90 crore somewhere did not work well. A lot of other people invested in my dream and lost money; if the film had worked, it would have empowered a lot of other people. I only want to make movies.鈥? The experience hasn鈥檛 weakened his resolve to make films though. I don鈥檛 need a blockbuster; I simply want to recover the money back. It would have paved way for a lot of other filmmakers. I guess there was also a bit of arrogance involved. I know I can鈥檛 sit back and relax. Failure is always a director鈥檚 fault because he doesn鈥檛 say 鈥榥o鈥?to things that he has to.