Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Friday claimed that the rape allegations against him were "outright lie" as he was in Sri Lanka at the time, a day after he was grilled by police in Mumbai for a good eight hours in connection with the seven-year-old case.

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai on Thursday grilled leading Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in connection with a seven-year-old rape case.