Dua Lipa’s fans in India were in for a surprise when the singer-songwriter performed a mash-up of Levitating and Badshah (1999) track, Woh ladki jo sabse alag hai, at her November 30 concert in Mumbai. But what began as Lipa’s nod to Bollywood quickly turned into a war of credits. In an Instagram post, Jay Bhattacharya criticised how it was being projected as a Shah Rukh Khan number with no credit to his singer-father Abhijeet Bhattacharya, who lent his voice to the track. Khan’s fan clubs countered his argument, stating that it was the actor’s stardom that made Lipa perform to it.

When mid-day reached out to Abhijeet, the man at the center of the controversy, he unequivocally stated that singers are the backbone of songs. “When we hear Lag jaa gale, whom do we recall—the actress [Sadhana] or the singer, Lata Mangeshkar? Chingari koi bhadke is remembered as a Kishore Kumar song, not a Rajesh Khanna one.