‘Some movies are supposed to extra than simply entertain you. They’re meant to problem, provoke, push you to suppose, instil change, and be within the public dialog.’
‘That’s Haq.’

IMAGE: Yami Gautam and Emraan Hashmi on the Haq trailer launch occasion in Mumbai, October 27, 2025. {Photograph}: Hemant Shivsharan/Rediff

 

Emraan Hashmi and Yami Gautam Dhar will share display screen house for the primary time within the courtroom drama, Haq, which releases in theatres on November 7.

They play a pair battling out divorce within the courtroom in opposition to the advanced backdrop of religion and Constitutional rights, which is a dramatised account of the 1985 Supreme Courtroom judgment over the controversial upkeep lawsuit within the Mohd Ahmed Khan vs Shah Bano Begum case.

Yami portrays Shazia Bano, a Muslim girl combating for her rights and justice, and Emraan performs her former husband Abbas, who can also be the opposing lawyer.

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On the trailer launch of the movie in Mumbai, Emraan stated Haq champions ladies’s rights and it goals to spark significant dialog.

“The Shah Bano case rattled the nation at the moment. Your complete nation was divided in two halves: One facet was on the facet of faith and private religion, and the opposite facet was on the facet of the Structure and secular rights,” Emraan recalled.

“Some movies are supposed to extra than simply entertain you. They’re meant to problem, provoke, push you to suppose, instil change, and be within the public dialog. That’s Haq,” Emraan stated.

IMAGE: Vartika Singh, Yami Gautam, Emraan Hashmi, Director Suparn S Varma and Co-Producer Amrita Pandey on the Haq trailer launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemant Shivsharan/Rediff

Talking in regards to the movie’s wider influence on the society, Emraan described Haq as “an excellent piece of labor” and urged the Muslim neighborhood to observe it.

“When individuals would come out of cinema halls, I do not know what might be their opinion, however I do know that almost all of them will discover the movie extraordinarily balanced, and one factor that comes out screaming, it’s pro-women, that is one thing I took from the movie,” Emraan stated.

“For my neighborhood, I felt that is from a liberal Muslim’s standpoint. I believe it’s a nice piece of labor. Your complete workforce has made a fantastic movie and Muslims ought to actually come and watch this movie as a result of you’ll join it with in a really completely different manner.”

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Director Suparn S Varma, identified for steering sections of The Household Man, Season 2 and Rana Naidu, each seasons in addition to The Trial, Season One and writing Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai, stated he spent three years with author Reshu Nath in writing and researching Haq and the movie comes from a spot of “love, respect and honesty for all.”

“There was a little bit of fear after we made Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai (the 2023 courtroom drama that includes Manoj Bajpayee), however the quantity of help we bought for that movie gave us quite a lot of encouragement to inform extra such tales,” Varma stated.

“After we began researching and writing Haq, our whole energy got here from the truth that we knew that is the movie that must be made and talked about. The subject it touches upon continues to be very related.”

IMAGE: Yami Gautam, Vartika Singh and Emraan Hashmi on the Haq trailer launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemant Shivsharan/Rediff

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Yami, who takes yet one more hard-hitting function after A Thursday, Article 370, OMG 2, stated she is drawn to tales that showcase braveness and honesty.

“I’m an individual who goes by my intuition. If it is a story value telling, there is a journey for each character. I imagine in that. Viewers is essential to me. They need to prefer it, they need to really feel that this story is value their cash,” Yami stated.

IMAGE: Yami Gautam, Vartika Singh and Emraan Hashmi on the Haq trailer launch occasion. {Photograph}: Hemant Shivsharan/Rediff

For Yami, Haq was particular, as a result of as she stated, she has at all times been a fan of Emraan’s appearing and that she “could not image anyone else” as her co-actor within the movie.

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