Kiran Rao's highly acclaimed film Laapataa Ladies, starring Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta and Sparsh Shrivastava and backed by Aamir Khan, is facing fresh allegations of copying the Arabic short film Burqa City (2019) starring Omar Mebrouk, Jalal Al Tawil, Malika Alaoui and Chadia Amajod. In 2024, filmmaker Anant Mahadevan accused the makers of Laapataa Ladies of copying his 1999 TV movie, Ghunghat Ke Pat Khol. While the film has been widely praised, it is now facing accusations of plagiarism due to its similarities with the Arabic film. Now, a clip from the Arabic short film Burqa City, where a man in the Middle East goes shopping with his wife and returns with wrong burq-clad women, is going viral and being compared with a scene from Kiran Rao's Lapataa Ladies. The video shared on X (previously Twitter) was captioned, "She just changed Muslim with Hindu & copy pasted whole film." Confused netizens shared their reactions to the video under the post. Another user on Reddit joked that a similar scene involving ghunghat swapping was shown in an Ektaa Kapoor serial. Aamir Khan’s Failed ‘Laapataa Ladies’ Audition Video for Ravi Kishan’s Cop Role Goes Viral – Three Times He Nailed Playing a Police Officer on Big Screen.

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