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Haq

Haq starring Yami Gautam and Emraan Hashmi was released in movie halls on November 7, 2025 . Netflix premiered the movie on January 2 , 2026. The movie is inspired by Shah Bano Begum vs Mohd. Ahmed Khan case in which a historic verdict was given by the Supreme court of India on April 23, 1985. It entitled a divorced Muslim woman the right to get maintenance from her estranged husband under secular law (CrPC Section 125), even beyond the ‘iddat period’, that is, an Islamic waiting period for Muslim women after the dissolution of marriage (by death or divorce) during which they cannot remarry. For divorced women it is a period of around 90 days after talaq. The judgment said, “There is no conflict between Section 125 and Muslim personal law” since the Qur’an itself imposed a duty on Muslim husbands to provide for their divorced wives.  The Shah Bano verdict is considered a landmark judgement, since, according to Sharia, a woman is allowed to remarry after her iddat p...
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Sister Midnight

Did a movie ever drive you crazy? A movie can make you feel happy, sad, scared, horrified, enlightened or wise; but what if a movie pulls down the wall between sanity and insanity! I went through such a train of thought when I watched the movie SISTER MIDNIGHT. What kept me hooked to the movie till the end was its bizzare storyline, the dynamic characterization of Uma played by Radhika Apte, balanced by the flatness of Gopal's character beautifully depicted by Ashok Pathak. Why must a sweeper carry her mop and bucket to and from her office daily, holding her mop like a trophy? Is it not ridiculous? Why should someone, who makes a mess of her household boast ' I am the Goddess of cleanliness ' There was however something about the movie which would not let me get it out of my mind. So I revisited the movie on Jio Hotstar. It was then I realised that the film has a deep metaphorical significance. Sister Midnight is the story of Uma's quest for 'romance, adven...
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Winter Retreat With Movies

Winter has set in with all its beauty. The sun is warm. Adieu to surly days . Mango trees bloom with flowers promising a sumptuous feast for our taste buds in the coming season .The temperature has dipped and the met office has predicted more. The lucky ones enjoy a short retreat to the hills or on swarming sea beaches , and for us who have spent all their leave and cannot afford to expend any more of their leave, need not feel disdain. You can lose yourself to your childhood days or you may give indulgence to the child in you by sinking into your cosy chair and catching movies on your television sets . Here are a few which might uplift your Christmas Spirit * The boy called Christmas - Everyday life is drab . The movie starts with a quest for hope, since hope brings with it happiness. A kind little boy called Nicholas, whose heart is as big as his nickname , Christmas, brings in Hope from the land of elves, Elfhelm , into the world of humans. This Hope and happiness ke...
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Bhay: A Paranormal Horror

Watched the TV series Bhay :  The Gaurav Tiwari Mystery , on Amazon MX Player , released on 12 December 2025. The series, directed by Robbie Grewal , written by Arshad Syed , produced by Prabhleen Sandhu stars actors like Karan Tacker, Kalki Koechlin, Saloni Batra, Danish Sood among others. The series tried to find the answer to the question, who killed Gaurav Tiwari , the renowned Indian paranormal investigator and founder of Indian Paranormal society (IPS), who died young, under mysterious circumstances. Though police claim it was a suicide, his fans, followers and people who believe in the world of spirits, parapsychologists, paranormal investigators believe that he was killed by a vengeance seeking spirit. There is more to the series than horror. The series is also a warm depiction of the man Gaurav Trivedi -- his achievements and failures, glory and frustration, hope and dismay, fearlessness and fear-- the fear of a person who has the knowledge of his , his family's a...
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