Call it his moment of reckoning or an emotionally overwhelming one, Suparn S Varma has every haq to be on cloud nine. As his directorial Haq opened to rave reviews and is faring fairly well on box-office too, for Suparn, Haq’s success is indeed the stuff dreams are made of.

Talking of the film, he worked on it for three years. One was spent in research, studying legal documents, histories of inspiration, including Shah Bano’s case, another one on writing and then the actual making of the emotional world of Shazia Bano and Abbas Khan. He says, “We saw it as a story of marriage, a domestic dispute that became a national issue.” For him every story is political if it concerns ‘power imbalance, even in a marriage.’

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