Original sentence: In addition, according to Playback Magazine:.Mehta answered the accusations with a lawsuit against Gangopadhyaya, publisher Badal Basu, English translator Aruna Chakravarty and editor Anuradha Dutta, who went along with the plagiarism accusations.Mehta is battling the accusation that she lifted her script from the novel Sei Samaya.Production was shut down until last year, when Mehta secretly finished the movie in nearby Sri Lanka.The award-winning book by acclaimed Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay - which goes under the title Those Days in English - like Water, also deals with the "child widow" phenomenon that has plagued India for centuries.The charges were first made by Hindu extremists angered by the touchy subject matter and who attacked and burned the Water set in the holy city of Varanasi, causing over $600,000 worth of damage
Edited sentence: Also, Mehta was sued by writer Sunil Gangopadhyay who claimed that Mehta stole the story for the movie from his 1985 book, Sei Samaya