It would seem that all is not well with the Bombay Velvet team.
It would seem that all is not well with the Bombay Velvet team. A leaked email from the film’s editor, Prerna Saigal, to the production house Phantom, shows that she was angry with the team not providing her proper accommodation while she was in New York, working on the film. Apparently, the house that she was put up in (and which seems not to have met with her requirements) was burgled in December and several of Prerna’s valuables, including her iPad, were stolen. The hard disk on which Bombay Velvet was stored, however, was not taken.
It is thanks to Bombay Velvet director Anurag Kashyap’s Martin Scorsese connection that the film was being edited in the US, by Scorsese’s longtime editor Thelma Shoonmaker.
After the burglary incident, it is believed that Prerna sent a strongly worded mail to Phantom Productions (exclusive copies of which are available on our Deccan Chronicle website) on December 4. She told them that the Bombay Velvet footage was safe even as she upbraided them for not heeding her concerns.
In the mail, it appears that Prerna was not happy with the accommodation given to her and that her request for a safe, private room with WiFi was not acceded to by Phantom as they “wanted to save money”. “The things I have lost and time I have spent unnecessarily isn’t fair,” Prerna’s mail further states.
The mail is addressed to Anurag Kashyap, Madhu Mantena (one of the four partners at Phantom Films), Vivek Bajrang Agrawal, head of production and Tanvi Gandhi, line producer.
