Overview

• Laapataa Ladies won Best Film and multiple trophies at the Filmfare Awards held last weekend in Ahmedabad.
• Posting on October 14, Sudipto Sen said the show failed to honor the best work of 2024 and called the event a tamasha.
• In his note he criticized winners as including “a blatantly plagiarised film,” “a tutorial of brutality,” and a film that “did not survive the box office for more than 72 hours,” without naming titles.
• News reports identified the likely targets as Laapataa Ladies, Kill, and I Want To Talk, while noting that Sen did not explicitly name any film.
• Earlier plagiarism claims against Laapataa Ladies over similarities to the 2019 short Burqa City were denied by its writer, and there was no immediate response from Filmfare reported in the coverage.