India, Nov. 19 -- The trailer of Ranveer Singh's upcoming film Dhurandhar has set social media buzzing, but not entirely for the right reasons. Now, filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh has stepped in to defend the film amid accusations of lacking originality, sparked by its use of Madhubala's classic qawwali Na Toh Karvan Ki Talaash Hai.

It all started when Sujoy took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to praise the makers for the trailer.

"That dhurandhar trailer is toooo good. all my favorite actors in one film. And that song at the end of the trailer? ekdum kickum assum (it is awesome)," Sujoy wrote.

Reacting to it, one social media user commented, "That song at the end of #Dhurandhar is not original but a version of Manna Dey's song word by word. ...