Haq movie review: In 1978, 62 year-old Shah Bano went to court demanding maintenance from her affluent lawyer husband Mohammad Ahmad Khan. In 1985, came a landmark Supreme Court judgement upholding the rights of divorced Muslim women, ordering a steady sum of maintenance not only as responsibility but humanity. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

Coming at a juncture when India was in a churn, the judgement caused a high-pitched furore around the already vexed conversations around secularism, Muslim personal law, uniform civil code and gender justice. So intense was the pushback from various stakeholders that it pitchforked the then government into an unwise knee-jerk reaction, whose fallout contributed in changing the political map of the country.

Haq is ‘inspired by’ the Shah Bano case, bu

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