BOL

    The film starts by showing the protagonist, Zainab (Humaima Malik) is about to be hanged. She decides to tell her story right before she is hanged. She grew up with 6 sisters, a mother and a father. The father always wanted a son so that the son could help with the financial issues of the family, since he doesn't believe in women doing jobs. They end up having a transsexual son, named Saifi (Kashmiri). The father (Hakim) doesn't like Saifi because of his gender, but saifi is deeply loved by the rest of his family. Zainab's mom keeps giving birth to babies that are born dead, so Zainab get an operation done for her where she can no longer have babies. When Hakim finds out, he gets very mad.

    One day, Zainab sees Saifi dressed in women's clothes, and gets disturbed. Her friend Mustafa (Atif Aslam)is a singer and is in medical school. He likes Zainab's sister Ayesha (Mahira Khan) and they both sing and play the guitar together, but they have to hide that from Hakim, since he doesn't like Mustafa's family because they are Shia. Hakim owns a small pharmacy sort of place and is approached by a man, who asks Hakim to teach the Quran to children, since Hakim is a very religious man who has bonds with the Masjid. Hakim initially refuses because the man is a Kanjar, meaning that he gets women to dance and to other bad things with guys. Meanwhile the masjid gives Hakim some money to keep, since they believe Hakim is very trustworthy. Mustafa gets Saifi a job at a place where they paint trucks. He is harassed there because of his gender.

     One day he gets raped, and another transsexual finds him on the floor and takes him home. Hakim overhears Saifi telling his mother and Zainab what happened to him. Later on when everybody is asleep, Hakim gets a plastic bag and suffocates Saifi to death. He must bribe the police officer to keep what happened a secret by two lakhs. Hakim is forced to take the money out of the masjid funds. Ayesha and Mustafa both go to a concert and both sing and are loved by the crowd. Mustafa's father approaches Hakim for Mustafa and Ayesha to get married, but Hakim refuses since Mustafa is Shia. The masjid asks for the funds, and Hakim doesn't have enough money. He is forced to go to the Kanjar's house to get the money back. He washes it thinking that it is dirty, when he gets home.

Teaching children the Quran isn't giving him enough money, so Saqa Kanjar gives him another option. He must get married to Hakim and have a baby with Mina (Iman Ali) who is one of the prostitutes and is the Saqa's oldest daughter, since he keeps on having girls and Saqa believes that it is the men who creates the gender. Zainab gets Ayesha and Mustafa married since Hakim found another man at the masjid and wants to get Ayesha married to that man. Simultaneously, Hakim marries Mina. When Hakim finds out about Ayesha's marriage, he is furious but can't do anything about it. Mina has her baby, and it is a girl meaning Saqa gets to keep it. Hakim begs Mina to give him the baby so that the baby doesn't have to face a horrible future. Saqa overhears and kicks Hakim out. Later on, Mina comes to give Hakim the baby. When Hakim's wife asks who that women was, he takes her to a room and tells her that he married Mina. She freaks out and starts screaming at him, and he beats her up. The mother tells the kids what happened, and Zainab insists they all leave the house and move somewhere to start a new life.

At night, Saqa comes to take the daughter, since Mina was not supposed to give it to Hakim. Hakim tries to kill the daughter to keep the daughter from a horrible future, but he is killed by Zainab by a fatal knock on the head. They hide the baby and Zainab tells Saqa that Hakim killed the baby and threw her out   somewhere, and that she killed Hakim, which is why she is being given the death penalty. Now back in the present, a reporter keeps trying to prove she is innocent, but is unable to. Zainab ends by asking that why is only killing a sin? Why isn't giving birth one? Then she is hanged. The president sees the reporter's newscast that ends with that question and schedules a meeting with the topic the same as the question. In the end, the daughters open up a restaurant called Zainab's Cafe, which becomes very successful. They also raise there new sister, Mina's daughter.
    This film covered many issues of our society. It is not only happening in muslim's but also with hindu's. I personally like this movie very much. Acting, scripting, direction, dialogue gives best feeling of movie.

Critical reception

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Source	Rating
Bollywood Hungama	[11]
The Times of India	[12]
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Bol received highly positive reviews from critics. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 4/5 describing it as "A brilliant film embellished with bravura performances". Likewise, Komal Nahta of The Times of India gave the film 4/5 by going on to describe the film as "topical and thought-provoking". Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film 3 on 5 stating that the "message that the film delivers is urgent, heartfelt and of considerable import".^[14] Galaxy Lollywood, in its review gave 4.4/5 stars to the film and stated it to be 'meeting public expectations' after Khuda Kay Liye.^[15]

It was awarded the Best Hindi film award in IRDS Film awards 2011 by Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS), a Lucknow based Civil society for raising many social issues including the regressive attitude of a male-dominated society.