No, actor Bradley Cooper did not really pinch Mahesh Bhatt's script to make his directorial debut, A Star Is Born. The number of desis likening the trailer to Aashiqui 2 (2013) must infinitely amuse Warner Bros, the Hollywood studio opening the incredible musical in India this Friday.

Cooper probably hasn't seen Bollywood's sleeper, super-hit, with Aditya Roy Kapur looking rather well-kept for a self-destructive singer, going down the rabbit hole of alcoholism, while the stars of his wife (Shraddha Kapoor) are simultaneously on the rise. That film, produced by Bhatt, was a relatively schmaltzy version of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Abhimaan (1973), with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead.