The film was reviewed by the Central Board of Film Censors in Lahore on 8 November 2010 and received its approval the next day. Bol is set in Lahore and many students from National College of Arts' (NCA) filmmaking department have assisted Shoaib Mansoor on it.
Plot
The film starts by showing the protagonist, Zainab (Humaima Malik) is about to be hanged. She decides to tell her story to media 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 transgender 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 Tubal ligation done for her. When Hakim finds out, he gets very mad.One day, Zainab sees Saifi dressed in women's clothes gets disturbed. 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 Mosque. Hakim initially refuses because the man is running a brothel. Meanwhile the mosque gives him some money to keep, since they believe him to be very trustworthy. Mustafa (Atif Aslam), living in neighbour, 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 transgender finds him on the floor and takes him home. Hakim overhears Saifi telling his mother and Zainab what happened with him. Later on when everybody is asleep, Hakim suffocates Saifi to death with a plastic bag. 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. The masjid asks for the funds, and Hakim doesn't have enough money. He is forced to go to the Saqa's house to get the money.
Teaching children the Quran isn't giving him enough money, so Saqa gives him another option. He must get married to Hakim and have a baby with Meena (Iman Ali) who is one of the prostitutes and is the Saqa's oldest daughter, since he keeps on having girls and Saqa tells him 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 Meena. When Hakim finds out about Ayesha's marriage, he is furious but can't do anything about it. Meena has her baby, and it is a girl meaning Saqa gets to keep it. Hakim begs Meena 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, Meena 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 Meena. 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 Meena 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 their new sister, Meena's daughter.
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