Accidental Prime Minister based on the life of Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh comes into a verbal spat between actor Anupam Kher and Filmmaker Hansal Mehta. The duo worked together on the 2019 political drama, which was based on the political tenure of the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Anupam Kher joined the journalist Vir Sanghvi in criticising Hansal Mehta for the film The Accident Prime Minister, where he was the creative director calling out Hansal Mehta for being a 'hypocrite' on X. It all started when journalist Vir Sanghvi tweeted, "If you want to remember the lies that were told about Manmohan Singh you should rewatch The Accidental Prime Minister. It is not only one of the worst Hindi movies ever made but is an example of how media was used to tarnish the name of a good man." 

Anupam Kher who played the protagonist replied on X, "The HYPOCRITE in this thread is NOT @virsanghvi. He has the freedom to not like a film." Calling out Hansal Mehta, the tweet continued, "But @mehtahansal was the #CreativeDirector of #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister. Who was present at the entire shoot of the film in England! Giving his creative inputs and must have taken the fee also for it. So for him to say 100% to #VirSanghvi's comment is so messed up and full of double standards!" 

"Not that I agree with Mr. Sanghvi but we are all capable of doing bad or indifferent work. But we should OWN it. Not like #HansalMehta trying to earn some brownies from certain section of people. Common Hansal!! Grow up! I still have all our videos and pics of the shoot together!" the post concluded strongly condemning the filmmaker's "double standards."

Hansal, reacting to it wrote, "Of course I own my mistakes Mr Kher. And I can admit that I made a mistake. Can't I sir?" Focusing on the point that it was just a job for him, which he completed with due commitment, the post further read, "I did my job as professionally as I was allowed to. Can you deny that? But it doesn't mean I have to keep defending the film or that it makes me lose objectivity about my error of judgement."