India, April 5 -- Laapataa Ladies writer Biplab Goswami issued a statement on Saturday responding to recent plagiarism allegations against his film. Numerous people on the internet recently found similarities between the Kiran Rao-directorial and the Arabic film Burqa City. Here's what the writer said. (Also Read: Laapataa Ladies faces plagiarism allegations after similar scenes from Arabic film Burqa City surface online)

Biplab issued a statement on social media claiming that he had registered Laapataa Ladies with the Screenwriters Association in 2014, well before the Arabic film was made. He also stated that the contended scenes were written in the registered synopsis. In 2018, he claimed to have registered the feature-length script, w...