 "'HAQ': Emraan Hashmi and Yami Gautam's final monologue from the courtroom leaked online days after film's release")
In Junglee Pictures’ HAQ, the courtroom scenes have arrested the attention of the audience, with snippets of them going viral. Usually the film’s climax surfacing is never good news but this time around, the makers are pleasantly surprised how those scenes have lead to generating more curiosity and leading to more turnout and higher footfalls.
When Emraan Hashmi ’s defiant character says that marriage is nothing more than a contract, he is spitting facts.
In Suparn S Varma ’s film, inspired by real cases and constitutional debates, marriage is stripped of its sentimentality. If marriage is a contract, Emraan argues, then so is its dissolution and no one should have the right to weaponize faith to bypass justice.
On the other side stands Yami Gautam ’s character, who in her final monologue says, “Sharia says, any man who gives triple talaq should be punished with lashes. But tell me, Your Honour, how many men’s backs have you ever seen scarred that way?”
The silence that follows is damning. As the film argues that the Quran and the Constitution are not enemies but allies, both born from the same moral soil of justice, equality, and truth, the audience bursts into a thunderous applause.
By the time she says, “What’s written in the Holy Quran is echoed by our Constitution and our law,” the film’s ideology crystallizes. HAQ becomes about the confrontation between what is practiced in the name of religion and what is preached by religion itself.
Junglee Pictures positions HAQ as a courtroom drama, but it’s really an ideological reckoning. If both the Quran and the Constitution demand justice, why do we so often deny it in their name?
Produced by Junglee Pictures, in association with Insomnia Films and Baweja Studios, helmed by Suparn S Varma, headlined by Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi, HAQ running in ceinams near you.