Cocktail 2's Mashooqa Sparks a Viral Pritam Plagiarism Row

A single Bollywood song has done what few film promotions manage these days: it has split Indian timelines down the middle.

What makes the moment so distinctly 2026 is how fast it all moved.

Mashooqa is one of the lead tracks from Cocktail 2, the upcoming romantic entertainer headlined by Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Rashmika Mandanna.

The song itself was conceived as something more ambitious than a standard summer number.

That detail matters, because Mahmood is no minor name.