“People Called Me Plump Despite Being A Good Actress,” Says Huma Qureshi On Producing ‘Double XL’
We need more diverse representation of women on screens!
There is no doubt that films we have grown up watching have stereotyped gender roles, and also how are only appreciable if they look a certain way. The desired women on screen were always fair, slim, had straight hair, and were well-spoken. But thankfully, the portrayal of women on screens is changing with a more diverse female population getting represented. Recently, at an event organised by Netflix, Her Story, Her Voice, where Huma Qureshi was one of the panellists, she talked about how she decided on Double XL as her first production venture. She also recalled how people body-shamed her for being a plus-sized woman.
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Huma Qureshi said that actresses are treated like apples in the film industry as after they get ripe, they are not any good. She said, “I think it’s so cool today that so many of my colleagues are getting married and having babies all in the public as opposed to 10 years ago when it was a taboo thing.” Huma, then, said, “There is a big shift in society which is also being represented by our films. Even when I was growing up, I did not have so many role models to look up to.”
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Talking about how she decided to produce her film, Double XL, she said, “When I joined the business everyone said, ‘Huma, you’re a good actress but you’re a little plump.'” She said that such comments made her think of how female bodies were supposed to look a certain way. The 36-year-old actress said that a mainstream narrative about how a woman’s body should look was conveyed through films.
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Also read: ‘Double XL’ Review: Sonakshi Sinha Creates Unnecessary Chaos But Huma Qureshi’s Performance Makes It Palatable.
Directed by Satramm Ramani, Double XL also starred Sonakshi Sinha, Zaheer Iqbal and Mahat Raghavendra. The plot of the film revived around two plus-sized women who have been body-shamed their entire lives and decide to change the discourse around women’s weight and also how it is nobody else’s business.
Huma Qureshi will next be seen in Tarla and a project titled, Pooja Meri Jaan.
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