Trouper Records has stepped in to settle the paperwork side of a row that's been trailing Mirzapur: The Movie since its opening weekend. The label, which owns Rajasthani rapper Rapperiya Baalam's song Shoorveer, says the track was officially licensed to Excel Entertainment for use in the film. A post on the label's social media handle congratulated the film's team, which is about as clean a way as any to say: the rights were sorted.

That clarification lands directly on top of Rapperiya Baalam's own complaint, posted after the film released on September 4. He'd said nobody from the Mirzapur team asked him before dropping Shoorveer into a sequence built around its gangster characters.

"Today, my heart is broken," he wrote, adding that people might expect him to be thrilled his song made it into a big franchise film. "But the Mirzapur team did not take my permission to use my song. Who gave them the permission? I certainly did not."

The song, by his account, was written as a tribute to Maharana Pratap. That's what made its placement sting more than a routine licensing gripe. "This song is dedicated to Maharana Pratap ji," he said. "We are using this song to glorify the villains in the movie. Is this right?"

He also said he'd have happily worked with the production if they'd simply asked. "If the Mirzapur team had approached me and said, 'Rapperiya bhai, we want to use your song,' we would have given them 10 ideas. But taking the song without permission is not right."

So here's where it stands. Trouper Records, which actually holds the rights to Shoorveer, says Excel Entertainment did everything by the book. Legally, that should close the file. Bollywood Hungama, which carried both the rapper's original complaint and the label's clarification, reported the licensing question as resolved.

What it doesn't resolve is the other half of what Rapperiya Baalam was upset about, the creative choice to score a villain montage with a song written for a Rajput king. A label confirming a license doesn't really answer whether an artist's tribute track should have ended up soundtracking gangsters, credited or not.

Mirzapur: The Movie, directed by Gurmeet Singh and written by Puneet Krishna, has been busy elsewhere too, pushing past six-crore-plus openings and climbing into conversations about the year's bigger grossers. Whether Excel Entertainment or the film's music team says anything more about the creative side of this complaint, or whether Rapperiya Baalam lets it rest now that the legal question is settled, is still open.