Call it co-incidence or just timing; increasingly films that are up for release have songs, scenes, controversial scenes often leak out on the internet, right before the film’s release. The latest film to have come under the scanner is Shirish Kunder’s Joker starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha, which is scheduled to release in the last week of July. An older version of the item song that has been picturised on actor Chitrangda Singh has apparently leaked out and is all available all over the internet on various Bollywood websites. The song titled ‘I want fakht you’ was leaked online a day ago.

The song in question which was originally titled ‘I want fakht you’, was changed to ‘I want just you’ shortly after it was composed to avoid getting into any sort of controversy with the Marathi word. They also re-recorded the song, but the song doing the rounds on the internet has the word ‘fakht’. This is apparently giving director Shirish Kunder sleepless nights. Talking about it he says, “This song is the highlight of the film which is picturised on Chitrangda. After a special screening with a focussed audience group, we got the feedback that the word fakht should be changed to compliment the ‘U’ certificate our film has got.

These things happen when usually we have a crowd sequence being shot. This leak must have happened either from the recording studio or from one of the dancers, who usually have the songs to rehearse their steps. We are still trying to figure out who the culprit is and then we will see how we can take this forward. We want to ensure strict punishment is meted out to the culprit since it is illegally done.”

Both Shirish and wife, filmmaker Farah Khan took to their Twitter accounts to vent their anger. Farah posted, “What the **** !! just found out that our Joker song has bn leaked on You tube!! Will get a heart attack 2day 4 sure!!. We had changed the I want fakht u 2 I want Just you sometime ago! this is the old version thts leaked.”