: The original cut was reportedly 2 hours and 50 minutes long. Studio pressure forced it down to approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, leading to the loss of significant character development and childhood backstory. Where to Find Deleted Content
"Those scenes would have saved the film," she whispered.
Here is a deep dive into the deleted scenes of Bombay Velvet , and how the lifestyle they depicted is now more relevant than the film itself.
"Because history is a lie," Maya said. "And I want the truth of what burned."
The original vision for the characters (played by Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma) was for them to be intensely physical—constantly kissing and unable to keep their hands off each other. Censorship Reasons: Most of these scenes were removed to secure a UA certificate
The legacy of Bombay Velvet is not the film we saw. It is the film we almost saw. For the serious student of lifestyle and entertainment, the deleted scenes are a masterclass in how not to edit a period piece.
Short fragments of what were originally meant to be longer sequences sometimes appear in fan-made compilations on sites like Dailymotion Anurag Kashyap thinks these cuts ultimately contributed to the film's box office failure
The film Bombay Velvet was a fever dream of ambition: a $15 million recreation of 1960s Bombay, all jazz bars, gangster handshakes, and cigarette smoke curling under sepia-toned lights. But when it crashed at the box office, it left behind a legend—not of its released cut, but of the footage left on the cutting-room floor. In bootleg circles, it was called the Bombay Velvet Deleted Scenes Hot reel.
