Shooting for ‘Double XL’ was a liberating experience for Huma

Huma Qureshi has made her presence felt with the strong characters she has played and which have broken one stereotype after another. In “Double XL” too, she plays such a role alongside Sonakshi Sinha. The movie which is directed by Satramm Ramani, features the two of them playing plus-sized women, and for that they had to gain considerable weight. Talking about her role, Huma confessed that she had to put on roughly 20kg for the role.

Though she has mentioned multiple times, in jest, that this was the best prep she ever had to do for a role since she got to eat everything she wanted, the actress definitely had her set of reservations.

She talks about how even as a kid she was teased for being a ‘big girl’. She had left those insults behind her but when it came to gaining weight for the role of Rajshri Trivedi in “Double XL” it all came back again. The people around her advised her to be cautious about choosing this role.

She said: “I was scared because my closest confidantes and companions told me that I was making a mistake. And it would be the end of my career.” But despite all this she made up her mind and decided to play the role.

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Huma talked about how liberating and empowering it was to play the character of Rajshri. It was like a nod to her younger self. She said: I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything, shooting this film has been one of the most empowering experiences of my life and it only made me stronger and more confident of myself!”

“Double XL” is releasing on the Nov.4 this year starring Sonakshi Sinha, Huma Qureshi, Zaheer Iqbal, and Mahat Raghavendra. The Satramm Ramani directorial is a slice-of-life comedy that gives the message of how our size shouldn’t determine our ambitions.

The film is presented by Gulshan Kumar, T-Series, Wakaoo Films & Mudassar Aziz in association with T-Series Films.” Meanwhile, Huma and Sonakshi Sinha, who are awaiting the release of their upcoming film “Double XL,” shared the backstory of a popular sequence from the trailer of the film.  The sequence in question shows both Sonakshi and Huma’s characters in the movie having had enough of people taunting them and telling them to eat a certain way to lose weight. They go to a diner and order a wide array of food one after the other which lends to a comical yet hard hitting scene.

After they shot this scene, not only Huma and Sonakshi but also the rest of the crew were tempted to eat those delectable treats that their dialogues mentioned. All of them ordered what they felt like and enjoyed a hearty meal. “We actually went on to order the same food to indulge as we were all hungry and the food dialogue just fuelled our hunger further! The crew, Sona and I sat down and dug into the delicious dishes that the diner had and were satisfied by the end of it.”

Indo-Asian News Service