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Dec 09, 2024 10:01 AM IST
Huma Qureshi talks about her stint as an writer, dealing with judgements for it, turning it into a movie and taking her household’s restaurant enterprise forward
Whereas Huma Qureshi began her skilled journey as an actor, however not eager to restrict herself to that, she ventured into writing and revealed her first ebook Zeba: An Unintentional Superhero. Lately, she put up a publish on Instagram revealing that she has completed writing her second ebook Dhundh as effectively. As she opens up about her journey as an writer, Huma Qureshi admits that “it’s not anticipated from an actor in our business” to do one thing as mental as being an writer.
Ask her about this prejudice towards actors, which most likely an artiste in every other discipline most likely doesn’t face as a lot, and she or he says, “Ek to sab ko gyaan bahut dena hota hai actors ko, pata nahi kyun. Sabhi ke paas koi guru mantra hota hai that you need to do that or that. I’m not attempting to be impolite, however I haven’t requested for any of these opinions.”
The actor provides, “Generally you should let individuals discover and in the event that they make a mistake, it’s high quality. It’s okay to make errors, strive one thing new and fail. For me, the larger drawback just isn’t even attempting something totally different. Essentially the most boring factor for me can be to look the identical, sound the identical and wind up the identical every single day to work. Isse acha 9-5 wali naukri kar lete. Individuals undergo their whole lives being scared to experiment, they are going to hold doing the identical stuff until kingdom come. I discover that very suffocating. I won’t achieve success in every little thing I strive, however I need individuals to say that at the least she tried.”
Reflecting on how her writing journey began, Huma recollects, “All of us say that in the future we’ll write a ebook type of a factor. However after I had time throughout Covid, I had this concept in my head and I used to be questioning what to do with it. The primary thought was that ought to I write a script as being from movies, we expect by way of scripts first. However there’s something very stunning about writing a ebook, it sounds extra clever. So, I assumed let’s do one thing mental. However the find it irresistible obtained has been overwhelming. I assume it’s not anticipated from an actor in our business to even be an writer, however I by no means adhered to such phrases. I simply thought that this can be a story I need to inform and put out on the planet, so I did it.” She additionally quips that the rights of her ebook can be found if any maker needs to show it into a movie.
After performing and writing, is there every other enterprise she needs to discover? “Hospitality will all the time be in my blood. My restaurant Saleem is there, and it has been there for 50 years now, in a time when eating places shut in a single or two years. We’re increasing it now and each Saqib (Saleem, actor-brother) and I wish to be necessary champions of that journey and taking it throughout pan-India. We additionally need to develop it to different international locations and take Indian delicacies everywhere in the world,” she ends.
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