Yami Gautam and Emraan Hashmi-starrer Haq, which is based on the Mohd Ahmed Khan vs Shah Bano Begum case, is set to release in theatres on Friday. Director Suparn S Varma has stated that his film is not the biopic of Shah Bano, but is inspired by her fight wherein she claimed monetary maintenance after her husband divorced her after almost five decades of marriage and threw her out of the house with her five children.

While many aspects of the 1985 Supreme Court case, political and religious, have been discussed in the last few decades, the case took an emotional toll on the family and led to many health troubles for Shah Bano. In an earlier interview, her son Jameel Ahmed Khan said that Shah Bano was “ashamed” of all the publicity that the case garnered and was facing health chal

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