The film was announced in August 2022 with a teaser poster of Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a transgender person.[7][8] The shoots started soon after. It was shot across western Uttar Pradesh including Noida and Ghaziabad.
Midway through the shoots, Nawaz shared a video of the three-hour daily process to get ready for the shoots.[9][10]
Reception
Zinia Bandyopadhyay of India Today rated the film 3 out of 5, praising the performance.[11] Monika Rawal Kukreja of Hindustan Times too praised Nawaz's performance and commented, "The way he adapts the body language, dialect and overall persona of a transgender is on-point."[12]
Rating it 2.5 out of 5, Saibal Chatterjee in his review for NDTV wrote, "Haddi is a revenge drama with a marked difference - it pushes issues relating to trans people to the fore with broad strokes and delivers an appeal for inclusivity."[13]
Criticising the film, Shilajit Mitra of The Hindu commented, "It wears its noir griminess on its sleeve, and there are too many styles and tonalities jostling for attention at a given moment."[14]