After a good performance at the box office, Haq was released on Netflix on January 2, 2026. Directed by Suparn S Varma, Haq is a legal drama that revolves around Shazia Bano who sues her husband to get Rs 400 per month maintenance for her and her children.
The movie is inspired by true events of the landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum. In the movie, the character of Shah Bano has been renamed as Shazia Bano. Bollywood actress Yami Gautam plays the character of Shazia Bano. On the other hand, actor Emraan Hashmi played the character of Advocate Mohammad Abbas Khan, Shazia's husband.
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Haq tells the story of Shazia Bano who got married to Abbas and had multiple children with him over the years. However, when Shazia was pregnant with Abbas' third child, he went to Pakistan saying that he has to sell his land due to some legal reasons. Abbas told Shazia that he will return in 3 weeks. However, he returned after 3 months. Not only this,, but he also brought his second wife from Pakistan.
Shazia was told that Abbas married Saira because his husband was alcoholic and used to beat him a lot. Ultimately, Saira's husband died and hence, Abbas married her. However, Saira then revealed that Abbas used to love her before he got married to Shazia and after listening that she has lost her husband, he came to Pakistan to marry her.
After Shazia went back to her house, Abbas agreed to pay Rs 400 per month as maintenance. But, later stopped sending money even for children. In the end, Abbas gave Shazia triple talaq by saying 'Talaq Talaq Talaq'.
As a result, Shazia approached sessions court where she won the case. The judgement was challenged by Abbas in High Court. Shazia also won there. Finally, the case reached to Supreme Court where the Apex Body agreed with High Court's decision and Shazia again won the maintenance case against Abbas.
After Supreme Court's verdict went in favour of Shazia i.e. Shah Bano (in real life), multiple Islamic outfits pressured the Central Government to rule over the Supreme Court's verdict.
Shah Bano's youngest son Jameel Ahmed in an interview published in 2017 by The Quint stated that they were invited by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. At that time (2017) Jameel was 67-years-old and was a realty agent.
Jameel stated that after the verdict by Supreme Court, Shah Bano got an invitation from Rajiv Gandhi (then Prime Minister)
"He wanted to meet my mother and so I had accompanied my mother to Delhi."
Recalling his meeting with Rajiv Gandhi, Jameel Ahmad said, "Rajiv ji said that the situation was very critical. He asked us to refuse the maintenance. He spent around 15 minutes with us."
Ultimately, the Rajiv Gandhi government passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, to nullify the ruling and limit maintenance to the iddat period.
