Junglee Pictures in association with Insomnia Films and Baweja Studios announce HAQ — a gripping drama inspired by the landmark Supreme Court verdict in the Mohd. Ahmed Khan vs Shah Bano Begum case — starring Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi, and directed by Suparn S. Varma

A searing and intense drama that sparks a debate between personal law and secular law, HAQ will see Yami and Emraan in their most powerful and layered roles yet.

HAQ is a fictionalised and dramatised version of events stated in the book titled Bano: Bharat Ki Beti, written by Jigna Vora, and revisits one of the most controversial cases in the India of the ’80s. The conversation that started more than four decades ago remains urgent and relevant in our society even today — shouldn’t the opportunity of justice be equal for all? Is it time for one nation, one law? Where do we draw the line between personal belief and secular law? Should there be a Uniform Civil Code (UCC)?

For Yami, HAQ marks her next in theatres, after she lit up the screen with her electrifying performance in Article 370. In HAQ, she portrays an inspiring Muslim woman who refuses to be silenced. Wronged and abandoned, she fights a system stacked up against her. She is unafraid to go to court demanding haq for herself and her children. Coming together for the first time with Yami, Emraan plays the role of a razor-sharp and celebrated lawyer.

HAQ begins as a love story, and a seemingly private dispute between a husband and wife, and shifts to a rousing debate on a provocative topic that begs a solution even today — a courtroom battle spotlighting greater questions of faith, identity, liberalism, personal belief and eventually policy and law — the UCC under Article 44.

HAQ is set to release in theatres on November 7 and also stars Sheeba Chaddha, Danish Hussain and Aseem Hattangady. The teaser of the film is out today.