'There is a lot of Bhed-Bhav in Mumbai': Huma Qureshi

Monday, 08 August 2016
Why does Huma feel that way?
Huma Qureshi moved to Mumbai in 2007 and started modelling. Here she was discovered by Anurag Kashyap and made her film debut in a supporting role in Gangs Of Wasseypur and then settled down in Mumbai.
In a recent interview with DNA, the actress, who is originally from Delhi, opened up about her experience of living in Mumbai.
She was quoted saying, “My first impression of Mumbai wasn’t very nice. I thought it was a dirty, smelly and overcrowded city. I was quite disappointed with the conditions of the roads and the flyovers because in my head, I always thought of Mumbai as a beautiful city. People had hyped it up a lot so when I first came I was like, ‘Yeh Mumbai hai?’”
She added, “Mumbai has given me my life and career but it has also made me the person I am. I can run my own household, staff and career. That’s something very important and valuable and it happened to me while in Mumbai — this whole growing up process. Everything was intertwined — moving to Mumbai, becoming independent for the first time, buying a house and car, paying my bills. Even today, all this can be quite intimidating and tiresome, especially when I have to sit down at the month-end and sort out my accounts.”
When asked about what she doesn’t like about the city Huma said, “The one bad thing I didn’t like about Mumbai and it was like a little bit of a rude shock to me… When I first came here I found that there’s a lot of bhed-bhav as far as housing societies were concerned, which I found quite shocking as that never happens in Delhi. Like a lot of societies told me they wouldn’t give me a flat because I was a Muslim or Muslim societies don’t give flats to people with Hindu surnames. That never happens in Delhi at all.”