Haseena is shown to have shared a special bond with Dawood. But Dawood was unstoppable, he grew to be the king of underworld very soon. Her father Ibrahim Kaskar was an honest constable, who did not even shy away from making his sons Dawood and Sabir surrender before the police for their robberies. Haseena was extremely attached to her brother Dawood Ibrahim (Siddhant Kapoor, Shraddha's real brother). The questions by the lady Public Prosecutor (Priyanka Sethia) is arranged by the director in such a manner that its answers takes us to the flask back to Haseena's life. Haseena, who was one amongst the 12 children (probably 7th) of Ibrahim Kaskar and Amina Bi. Further the film unravels through court proceedings where Haseena Parker (Shraddha Kapoor) is questioned in an extortion case against a builder. And finally when she comes, people were not able to figure out who the original Haseena Parker was. Journalists and people outside the court are having doubt whether Haseena Aapa would come for the court proceedings. The film begins with the dramatic entry of Haseena Parker and a few other ladied in Burqa. But, the film will definitely is intriguing as far as one needs to understand the flow of events in her life. But what sort of person she was, what did she feel, and how that inner transformation from a powerless girl to powerful don happened – all these are superficially dealt with, rather what we have read in newspapers. But the challenge with the film is it does not really let us know who Haseena is, it is just a chronological journey of Haseena's life. The film takes us through the journey of Haseena from a meek, 7th standard pass out daughter of an honest police constable Ibrahim Kaskar to wife of an hotel owner / actor Ismail Parker to the Lady Don's status. Haseena shifted to the Gordon Hall Apartments in Nagpada from where she headed the crime syndicate. Dawood had retaliated to his brother-in-law's death by a shootout at JJ Hospital and killing innocents as well in the process. Soon after that she entered into the crime world. It is said that Arun Gawli Gang murdered her husband Ismail Parkar in 1991. She was notorious for running an extortion racket in Mumbai and also allegedly involved in hawala rackets in sending money from India to Middle East and vice versa.
It was believed that Haseena took up the control of operations of Dawood's business in India. Haseena Parker, a film by Apoorva Lakhia, is a biopic on Mumbai's Lady Don, the Godmother of Nagapada – Haseena Aapa, younger sister of Dawood Ibrahim. The crime drama fails to offer an insight into Haseena's life whatsoever as an individual, beyond her infamous identity as Dawood's sister, who dropped her bhai's name to settle property disputes, extort money from builders etc.
While the intention is still subjective as it's a filmmaker's interpretation of a character, the film's biggest drawback is its lack of depth. But all you get is a silly costume drama that inadvertently victimises and thus justifies Haseena's unlawful actions and warped sense of power under the pretext of 'protecting her family'. You walk into the film, hoping to understand the controversial journey of a woman, who became the aapa (elder sister) or the Godmother of Nagpada. The judge examining Haseena Parkar's case, comes across as a nincompoop. Siddhant Kapoor (badly dubbed) as Dawood, roams around aimlessly in Dubai, goes on candlelight dinners with random girls and chills in his bathtub as Mumbai burns (1993). The treatment, jarring background score and setting, is equally sloppy as Dongri, Nagpada, Dubai, Mulund, Bhandup.all look the same. But let us clarify, Shraddha is not the weakest link here. The actress is 'lucky' to be getting biopics (she will essay the role of badminton ace Saina Nehwal next), given her limited acting skills.
However, given Apoorva Lakhia's poor direction and penchant for making films on Mumbai's underworld dons that ride on sensation over substance, all you get is a tanned Shraddha Kapoor who looks like she's holding two kachoris in her mouth. As the film shuttles between past and present, it passionately lists down the gang wars and events that led to Dawood's rise as a crime lord-terrorist and its repercussions on his family, including his sister Haseena, who was summoned to the Court only once (2007), despite the many offences registered against her. This courtroom drama tries to decode the life and criminal activities of India's most wanted fugitive - Dawood Ibrahim's late sister Haseena Parkar, who allegedly headed her brother's crime syndicate in Mumbai and ran proxy business for him.