This Aamir Khan co-star claims Kiran Rao's 'Laapataa Ladies' is a copy of one of his films: 'Didn't reach out to Aamir or Kiran because…'

Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies is one of the most acclaimed films of 2024. It opened to glowing reviews all across and found a much wider audience when it began streaming on Netflix. But is it similar to a film that came out in 1999? Ananth Mahadevan made a film called Ghunghat Ke Pat Khol, and he has spilled the beans.

In an interview with Times Now, the filmmaker said, “I have seen Laapataa Ladies, and the beginning as well as many incidents are the same. In our film, a boy from the city goes to his village to get married. The mix-up happens at the railway station when he asks his new bride, who is in a ghunghat, to wait on a bench [while he goes looking for some information]. When he returns, he joins the wrong bride."

The scene where the cop looks at the woman’s photograph and can’t make out much because she is in a ghunghat, is there in my film. Except in my film, it’s not a cop but another character," he added.

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On not reaching out to Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao

I don’t have any proof if Laapataa Ladies’ writer has seen my film on YouTube. When I searched for my movie on YouTube, it had disappeared and that’s when I realised that it was pulled down. I didn’t reach out to Aamir [Khan, producer] or Kiran because they will only point out the differences. But the premise, situations and a lot of scenes are similar. The mix-up in the train and railway station, and the ghunghatwala photo are straight from my film. I’ll treat it as flattery more than anything else