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Discovering Huma Qureshi's love for food over a hearty chat with her father
Updated On: 12 July, 2023 01:32 PM IST | Mumbai | Nasrin Modak Siddiqi
Heartwarming meals, and the love for feeding, is the common strains running through all the members of the Qureshi family. In a freewheeling chat, Huma Qureshi, who plays Tarla Dalal in her new film, and her restauranter father Saleem share the secret ingredients of success
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What is it with actress Huma Qureshi and food, we wonder. At an Italian restaurant in the Ashhti Ghat of Varanasi, there was a dish called Huma Qureshi special, named after the actress after she shot there for Gangs of Wasseypur. Her movie, Double XL, addressed stress-eating as a subject. She acted in the food-centric Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana, and the last time this writer met actress Huma Qureshi, along with her brother Saqib Saleem, it was to chat about iftar. It would then not come as a surprise that her father has been running Delhi’s famous Saleem’s restaurant for almost 50 years ago. Now, she also plays the lead in Tarla, a film about the journey of the legendary Tarla Dalal from a home chef to a cookbook author and culinary star, which released on ZEE5 last Friday.
“Food and I are inseparable. In our family, food and feeding is very important. We love to host friends and family and many of them come over, just to have a good meal. My father was passionate about food, and my mother got hooked on it when they got married,” says Huma. Ask her about her first, favourite food memory and she says, “it’s always been around Eid when people would just come over to eat”.
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