India, Nov. 6 -- The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition filed by the daughter of Shah Bano Begum against the release of the Hindi film Haq. Starring Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi in the lead roles, Haq is inspired by the life and legal struggle of Shah Bano Begum, whose landmark case in 1985 led the Supreme Court to grant divorced Muslim women the right to maintenance.

Shah Bano Begum's daughter, Siddiqua Begum Khan, had sought a stay on the release of the film, claiming that the film was made without the family's consent and misrepresented personal aspects of her late mother's life, reported Bar and Bench. She claimed that the film commercially exploits the privacy and personality of her deceased mother without taki...