Kiran Rao's highly appreciated and much-loved film Laapataa Ladies has found itself in the middle of a controversy. The movie, which received much appreciation from moviegoers and critics alike, is now being accused of copying its script. Recently, a clip of the Arabic film Burqa City surfaced on social media, leaving netizens baffled and questioning whether Kiran Rao has plagiarized its script for her film Laapataa Ladies.

Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies is copied?

Burqa City revolves around a newlywed man’s search for his wife after she mistakenly gets replaced due to an identical burqa. As the video of the Arabic film went viral, netizens started questioning Kiran Rao. One wrote, "Nothing that Bollywood produces seems to be an original work of art. They are all brazenly copy-pasted from somewhere else, shamelessly billed as original work."