Actor Huma Qureshi, known for standout roles in Maharani and Tarla, revealed that a casting agent once called to discourage her from taking on mature roles and made a surprising request that left her stunned.
Huma Qureshi recalls casting director urging her to “try younger roles” after success of Maharani and Tarla
Huma shared her insights during a session titled ‘The Maharani of Reinvention: Breaking Stereotypes, Empowering Women’ at the India Today Indo-UAE Conclave.
Huma stated, “After the success of Maharani and Tarla, which has got me immense love, one casting director called me and said, ‘You are such a beautiful woman. Why are you ageing yourself by playing these characters? There are so many other makers who want to work. Try to do younger parts.’ I am like, ‘Why does this burden of playing younger parts always fall on girls? Why are we expected to try to look younger than who I am? I have done my fair share of singing and dancing around the trees, but if a great script comes my way, I should say no to it because I am afraid of portraying someone a few years older than me”.
She added, “The problem is either I can do multiple cosmetic surgeries and sit at home and wait for certain filmmakers to call me, or I can go and work with those makers who are making all these interesting scripts, and they want to work with me. This has been a huge shift when you start taking control of your own life choices and narratives”.
Talking about her journey and beauty standards, previously Huma has stated, “It’s been tough. It’s not been an easy journey. The idea has been to be true to yourself. I realised very early on that if I tried to fit into someone else’s idea of beauty, I would fail miserably. There are things that as an artist, that perhaps only uniquely I can do. I had to be true to what appeals to me. the journey has not been linear, I have been confused and I was terribly lost but since I have started listening to my stubborn voice ki yeh mujhe aise he karna hai, it has been alright.”
Huma Qureshi will next be seen in Subhash Kapoor’s Jolly LLB 3, alongside Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi, Amrita Rao, and Saurabh Shukla. She will also return as Rani Bharati in the fourth season of her political drama Maharani, created by Subhash Kapoor and directed by Saurabh Bhave. While the release date is yet to be announced, the series premiered on SonyLIV in 2021, with subsequent seasons in 2022 and March 2024. The show also features Amit Sial, Viineet Kumar Siingh, Pramod Pathak, Kani Kusruti, Anuja Sathe, Sushil Pandey, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, and Sohum Shah.
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