Amid plagiarism allegations against Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies, Burqa City filmmaker has said that it does bear striking ...

Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies recently grabbed headlines after netizens pointed out similarities with the Arabic short film ...

Several Indian films have critiqued the symbolism of veils and burqas. In 'Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey', for instance, a burqa-clad ...

In an interview with IFP, Fabrice Bracq detailed the parallels he observed between Burqa City and Laapataa Ladies. The French filmmaker pointed out that both films share similar character ...

Biplab Goswami, the credited writer of the 2024 film "Laapataa Ladies", has responded strongly to online plagiarism allegations linking his script to Fabrice Bracq’s French short film “Burqa ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to ...

KABUL - Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban’s oppression of women. Since their ...

But while women must still have their bodies and faces covered, restrictions from the feared religious police do not specifically mention the burqa. So young women are instead following fashions ...