As the buzz around Cocktail 2 continues to grow, the makers recently released another romantic track, Mashooqa, from the film. While a section of the audience enjoyed the peppy number, netizens were quick to compare the song’s tune to Se So Arrubate A Nonna by Italian duo Bibi & Coco. Pritam has now addressed the Mashooqa plagiarism allegations and clarified that every tune and word is original.

Pritam on Mashooqa plagiarism accusation

Late on Wednesday night, Pritam posted a strongly worded note on Instagram Stories, which read, “Every single one of my song releases comes with a set of self-appointed music detectives, who have created a new genre called ‘imaginary similarities’. Same people, same ‘inspired by’ thesis. Boss, at this point, you are my unpaid PR team. I just want to say, guys, NOT NICE.”