- Huma Qureshi reprised her character Rani Bharti in the second season.
- Huma received many accolades for her leading turn in the period.
- The actor had been offered the role during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the second season of the SonyLIV show Maharani, Rani Bharti was played by Huma Qureshi again. In the political drama, the actor plays a housewife who can’t read or write. When her husband Bheema Bharti is shot, she becomes the chief minister of Bihar (Sohum Shah). Huma got a lot of praise for her leading role in the historical drama.
Even though Huma’s first web series was Netflix’s Leila, which came out in 2019, she said she had some doubts about the SonyLIV series and playing a mother of three. The actor was offered the role at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. When she was told more about the role over Zoom, she said she was interested.
Speaking on an actors’ roundtable on Bollywood media, Huma said, “When I read it, there were a lot of concerns. One of them being the obvious that the industry has, i.e., it is the role of a female who has 2-3 kids of hers. If you do it, you might be slotting yourself. You still might have ten more years before you take up these kinds of roles. I would lie if I said I did not think about it or not questioned myself.”
“But then I thought it was an amazing script, and I was so glad it happened during the pandemic because you get all the time to think about your reason of living or being an actor and basically all those existential questions that we all thought about or asked ourselves. I am very grateful as it was during that time I got this script. I don’t know maybe if I got this script during non-pandemic times, I would have not taken up the project and would have got distracted. It was only because I had all this time to really think about it.”
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