After videos of the heated conversation between producers Naga Vamsi and Boney Kapoor on South vs Hindi cinema went viral on social media, filmmaker Hansal Mehta has become the latest person to comment on the issue. Calling Naga “arrogant”, Hansal claimed that the producer’s latest Lucky Baskhar “has borrowed liberally” from his Scam series, which includes Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story and Scam 2003: The Telgi Story.

In a clip from the roundtable conversation with Galatta Plus, Naga said that the “whole of Mumbai didn't sleep after Pushpa 2 earned over Rs 80 crore in a single day". Boney added that the numbers he was referring to were from the Hindi belt alone. Hansal commented on the video and wrote, "Chill dude whoever you are… I live in Mumbai. Been sleeping really well."

Hansal further posted, "Since this person Mr Naga Vamsi was being so arrogant and now that I know who he is : His latest hit as a producer Lucky Baskhar has borrowed liberally from the Scam series. Reason I brought this up is that I feel happy that stories travel and a film in another language succeeds in replicating what has worked for us."

He added, "Everybody wins. Nobody is bigger than the other. That narrative is destructive. Arrogance is even worse. To all those haters coming at me on my TL - see you in 2025."

During the conversation, Naga and Boney had an argument after the former said that South Indians have shown Bollywood how to look at their own cinema. Naga also said that Hindi filmmakers didn’t showcase mass sensibilities and were stuck in making films for “Juhu and Bandra”.