Veteran lyricist Sameer has a problem with how two of Bollywood's biggest upcoming action films are treating music, and he isn't being subtle about it.

Speaking to trade analyst Komal Nahta, Sameer took aim at Dhurandhar and Chauhaan for what he called reducing old songs to filler behind gunfights and stunts. He singled out the Chauhaan teaser, where his own "Jumma Chumma" runs low in the mix while the frame stays busy with action. Dhurandhar The Revenge doesn't fare better in his telling. A recreation of his track "Hum Pyaar Karne Waale, Duniya Se Na Darr Ne Waale" plays out while bullets fly onscreen, and Sameer wants to know where the song actually went.

"Music ko utha ke background mein daal diya," he said, arguing the makers had done more damage than anyone before them. "Gaana kahaan hai bhai?"

The complaint didn't stop at these two films. Sameer used the interview to lay out a broader theory of why Hindi film music has gone flat over the last several years. His diagnosis: producers stopped mixing generations in music rooms. He recalled a producer telling him his office ran entirely on hires under thirty, and had for five or six years, a stretch Sameer says produced nothing close to the ten hit albums a year that same company once managed.

He's careful to say the new composers aren't the problem. What worries him is the wall between old and new. He pointed to his own late-career pairing with Sachin-Jigar on Faltu (2011), where he wrote "Aaltu Jaaltu" and "Chaar Baje Gaye Lekin Party Abhi Baaki Hai," as proof a veteran could still write for a younger sound. Nobody's giving composers like Anand-Milind or Anu Malik that same shot now, he said, and asked what the industry's youth-only approach has actually delivered.

Sameer even brought Arijit Singh into it, suggesting the singer's decision to step back from the industry traces to the sameness of what he was being handed. Udit Narayan's generation, he said, got range. This one doesn't.

There's a resignation running under all of this too. Sameer quoted music director Nadeem Saifi telling him to sit tight, that the current phase will run its course on its own before things circle back around. And he called out the banners that used to matter most for music, naming Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala, asking what changed at production houses that once made a point of backing strong soundtracks.

Neither the Dhurandhar nor Chauhaan teams have responded to the comments so far. Both films remain on the release calendar, and Sameer's quotes are likely to follow them there.