After much-awaited drug drama Udta Punjab was unexpectedly leaked online on Wednesday, two days before it hit the theatres, the film’s stars Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt tweeted asking fans to watch it in theatres. Screenshots of the movie have been doing the rounds of social media since Wednesday.

Bollywood celebrities spoke up against piracy. In their tweets, Shahid, Alia, filmmaker Karan Johar and actor Arjun Kapoor also mentioned that the video available on torrents contains a virus.

Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjabrecently won a battle with the Censor Board after the Bombay High Court ruled that the film be released with a single cut on June 17. Co-produced by Phantom Films and Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures, Udta Punjab stars Shahid as a drug addicted rockstar and Alia as a Bihari migrant. The movie deals with the issue of drug abuse in Punjab and features Kareena Kapoor as a doctor and Diljit Dosanjh as a cop.