Actor Huma Qureshi.
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The trailer of Baby Do Die Do introduces Huma Qureshi’s character as “India’s first hitwoman”. Huma admits that she loves the title. “I enjoy being called a female action star,” she tells The Hindu. Released on July 3, 2026, the Hindi crime drama has Huma playing a deaf-and-mute assassin. The Nachiket Samant directorial dives into the dark underbelly of Mumbai, where circumstances force a young girl to become a contract killer.Anurag Kashyap, who introduced Huma to Bollywood with Gangs of Wasseypur, threw his weight behind the movie, emphasising the need for giving independent movies a good chance to sustain in theatres. Huma, who has produced the movie with her brother Saqib Saleem, under the banner Saleem Siblings, says the long road to bringing Baby Do Die Do to screens was far from easy.“It takes a lot to put together a female-led action movie,” points out Huma, on the sidelines of the Bengaluru leg promotion of Baby Do Die Do. “I know the long road I walked to make this happen. There is a belief that people don’t want to watch women in action films, and that female-led action movies don’t sell. We don’t get the kind of budgets male action movies get. I had to fight to mount this movie,” she says.
