Huma Qureshi was pitched her Delhi Crime S3 villain position as ‘Batman vs Joker’: She does some horrible issues | Interview

The third season of Netflix’s Delhi Crime is ready to launch this month. The present’s trailer, unveiled on Tuesday, launched Huma Qureshi as this season’s highly effective antagonist, Meena. In a dialog with Hindustan Times, Huma describes the character as ‘exciting, and dark,’ revealing what led her to say sure to it.

Meena, aka Badi didi, is a trafficker in Delhi Crime S3 with hardly any redeeming qualities. “I don’t judge it,” says Huma, whereas speaking about her character. “As an actor, when you play something, your job is not to judge.”

‘Am I playing a cop?’

In a profession that has spanned nearly a decade and a half, Huma has by no means finished a task so damaging. She remembers being provided the position, “When Tanuj (Chopra) and Apoorva (Bakshi, the showrunners) approached me, I said yes immediately because I am a big fan of the franchise. I asked her, ‘Am I playing a cop?’ And she said no. I thought that because I played Rani Bharti (in Maharani), those kinds of righteous characters would come my way. But as an actor, I was excited because I had not done such a dark character.”

For the primary time, Delhi Crime offers the antagonist nearly as a lot energy and stature because the protagonist, DCP (now DIG) Vartika Chaturvedi (performed by Shefali Shah). The season is constructed as a face-off between the 2, and Huma says the makers had been consciously going for that. “The way this was pitched to me was ‘this is Batman vs Joker’. And of course, every actor wants to be Batman, and which actor would not want to be Joker? So, we can’t say no to this proposition,” she says with fun.

‘I want to be the most hated woman in the show’

Huma is aware of that the position will depart a mark on the viewers, and is hopeful it’s in the correct method. “I want to be loved as the most hated woman in this show, because she does some really horrible things, which I don’t approve of or stand for as an individual,” says the actor.

Delhi Crime season 3 additionally stars Rasika Dugal, Rajesh Tailang, Sayani Gupta, Mita Vashisht, Anshumaan Pushkar, and Kelly Dorji. Directed by Tanuj Chopra, the favored present returns to Netflix on 13 November.