I don’t know if Haq is a film you “watch.” I think it’s a film you sit through in a restless, uneasy, almost obnoxious way.
While watching it, my shoulders were stiff, like I was bracing myself. Mainly because of how normal everything felt. The male chauvinism wasn’t screaming at me. It was sitting there casually, like it belonged, like it didn’t even need to explain itself. And that annoyed me—a lot.
I am a meninist who believes that men and women deserve equal space, equal voice, and equal dignity, of course. That belief felt poked at while watching this film—not attacked directly, just slowly dismissed. Scene by scene. Sentence by sentence. The men decide. The women adjust. And nobody seems surprised by that arrangement.
What made me anxious was how traumatic it all felt—the conversations, the tone, the quiet authority. The way concern is used as control. The way women are made to feel demanding for wanting basic respect. I have seen this play out in homes, in relationships, in rooms where women go silent because speaking up feels like too much work.
I was not angry at the film. I was angry at the reflection. Because Haq doesn’t exaggerate. It doesn’t dramatize patriarchy into a monster. It shows it as furniture. Always there. Taking space. Never questioned.
There were moments I wanted the men to pause, to doubt themselves, to feel even slightly uncomfortable. But maybe that’s the point. Power rarely doubts itself—it just continues.
I won’t say I enjoyed Haq. I didn’t. It made me uneasy, heavy, slightly helpless. But it also made me think, and feel, and carry that feeling after the credits rolled.
Some films entertain you and leave. This one stayed—like a bad aftertaste. And maybe that’s its truth.
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– Avni Katakkar
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Avni Katakkar is a technologist by qualification and a writer by passion. She is an avid reader and a poet at heart. Avni is a freelance content writer and a professionally acclaimed storyteller. She is recognized and celebrated as a storyteller by the renowned IIT Bombay.
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