T-Series pulled down a song from Pushpa: The Rule Part 2, attacking a police officer, from public viewing hours after it was uploaded by the music company on YouTube. The song sparked a controversy soon after it was uploaded on December 24, the same day that actor Allu Arjun was questioned by the police in connection with the stampede case of December 4 during the premiere of the Telugu Pushpa: The Rule Part 2 at Sandhya cinema in Hyderabad.
It may have been just a case of bad timing that the song release on YouTube coincided with the interrogation of the film’s hero in the stampede case, but people lost no time in connecting the two and attaching motives to the release.