Karan Johar's Brothers trailer receives over a million views

The response to the trailer of "Brothers", which has received over a million YouTube views within a day of its release, has left filmmaker Karan Johar feeling overwhelmed.

The 43-year-old filmmaker took to micro-blogging website to thank people for viewing the trailer, which shows the “deadlier” side of Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra as brothers.

"Super fast 1 million views! Thank you for all the love.....@karanmalhotra21 's labour of love @akshaykumar @S1dharthM," Karan tweeted on Wednesday.

Directed by Karan Malhotra, the film, which also stars Jacqueline Fernandez and Jackie Shroff, is an official Hindi adaptation of the Hollywood film "Warriors". “Brothers” is slated to release on August 14.