Shah Bano Begum's daughter filed a suit opposing the distribution of the Hindi movie Haq, but the Madhya Pradesh High Court rejected it. Haq, which stars Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi in the prominent characters, is based on the life and legal battle of Shah Bano Begum, whose historic case in 1985 resulted in the Supreme Court granting support rights to divorced Muslim women.
What the Court rejection revealed Siddiqua Begum Khan, the daughter of Shah Bano Begum, had requested a stay on the movie's distribution, alleging that it was produced without the family's permission and misrepresented intimate details of her late mother's life, according to Bar & Bench.

She asserted that without obtaining permission from her legal heirs, the movie abuses her mother's personality and privacy for commercial gain.
The Indore bench's Justice Pranay Verma rejected these arguments, stating in the ruling that "privacy or reputation earned by a person during his or her lifetime extinguishes with his or her death." Unlike moveable or immovable property, it cannot be inherited. "Some leeway is certainly permissible."
The Court continued, saying, "It cannot be said that the contents of the film are fabricated since the disclaimer itself states that the same is dramatisation and is fictional and an adaptation of a book and is inspired by a judgement of the Apex Court."

A certain degree of latitude is undoubtedly acceptable because the movie is both an inspiration and a work of fiction; therefore, it cannot be said that any sensationalization or inaccurate portrayal has occurred.
Suparn S. Verma's film Haq is based on the historic Shah Bano case from 1985, which dealt with Indian maintenance laws and women's rights. Shah Bano, who was sixty-two at the time, petitioned the Indore court in 1978 for maintenance from her divorced husband, Mohammed Ahmed Khan, a wealthy and well-known attorney.

After getting married in 1932, the couple had five kids. Shah Bano was granted support under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the Supreme Court in 1985. But the Rajiv Gandhi administration enacted laws the next year that essentially overturned the decision. On Friday, November 7, the movie is scheduled to open in theatres.