The teaser of Haq, starring Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi, has just been released, promising an intense legal drama inspired by one of India’s most debated Supreme Court verdicts — the Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum case. Directed by Suparn S Varma, the film is set to hit theatres on November 7.
Haq opens with a seemingly personal love story that escalates into a heated legal and ideological battle. At its heart lies the question of justice, identity, and the long-standing debate on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) under Article 44 of the Constitution. The film follows Yami’s character — a strong, determined Muslim woman who, after being wronged and abandoned, refuses to be silenced. Fighting for her rights under Section 125, she challenges a system often seen as biased, demanding justice for herself and her children.
Emraan Hashmi plays a sharp, renowned lawyer, marking his first on-screen pairing with Yami. Together, they bring to life a fictionalized version of real events, dramatized from the book Bano: Bharat ki Beti by journalist Jigna Vora. The film revisits the social, political, and legal tensions that the Shah Bano case stirred in the 1980s — a conversation that remains as relevant today as it was four decades ago.
Haq dives deep into themes of faith, personal belief, liberalism, and the need for a secular and equal legal system. It asks pressing questions: Should there be one law for all? Where do we draw the line between tradition and justice?
Raw, emotional, and packed with dramatic twists, Haq is the story of a mother’s courage — and a nation at a crossroads.
