Indore, Nov 3 (PTI) The daughter of Shah Bano Begum, the Indore woman who fought a courageous legal battle to get alimony from ex-husband, has filed a petition in the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a stay on release of Hindi film 'Haq' on grounds it misrepresents events from her mother's personal life.

The film, directed by Suparn S Varma, is scheduled to hit theatres on Friday (November 7) and is said to be inspired by the Shah Bano case which resulted in a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court in 1985 on maintenance for Muslim women post-divorce.

The film stars actors Emraan Hashmi and Yami Gautam Dhar in lead roles.

The petition filed by Shah Bano Begum's daughter, Siddiqua Begum Khan, in the Indore bench of the High Court claims the film was made without her family's consent an

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