Varun Dhawan in October

As Varun Dhawan and Shoojit Sircar's recent release October found itself being celebrated, independent filmmaker Hemal Trivedi, in a Facebook post, claimed that the drama was plagiarised from the 2017 Marathi film, Aarti - The Unknown Love Story, which is directed by Sarika Mene. His post read, "The filmmakers of October never acquired any rights to the Marathi film and they never contacted Sarika."