Haq, the courtroom drama starring Yami Gautam and Emraan Hashmi, is currently the talk of the town. The film is a fictionalised version of Mohd. Ahmed Khan vs. Shah Bano Begum. Recently, the film was released on Netflix, and since then, the audience hasn’t stopped talking about the courtroom drama. For the unversed, Haq has released digitally on January 2, 2026.
Post the OTT release, Haq received widespread acclaim. Earlier in an interview, the Haq director, Suparn S. Varma, revealed that the film is not a biopic of Shah Bano, a Muslim woman who moved to the Supreme Court and filed a petition against her husband, Mohammed Ahmed Khan. He highlighted that the film is inspired by the 1985 Shah Bano judgment and the judgments of Tahira Bi and Fazlun Bi. For the unversed, Tahira Bi and Fazlun Bi’s judgments were the earlier cases before Shah Bano and had similarities with the Shah Bano case. Amid the rising success of the film, let’s delve deep in to know the courtroom drama’s factual differences from the real-life Shah Bano case.
Haq‘s ‘Shazia Bano’ is the daughter of a maulvi, what’s the reality of Shah Bano’s family background?
