A sports presenter in Double XL (2022), a politician in Maharani, and a chef in Tarla (2023). Glance through Huma Qureshi’s recent work and you’ll notice that her characters’ professions are at the centre of the stories. It stands true for her upcoming projects too. While in Gulabi, she plays a rickshaw driver, she is a detective in director Bikas Mishra’s thriller Bayaan. “I fight for my characters to have identity, I demand it,” she says when we mention this to her.