Huma Qureshi Launches Her Debut Novel At Jaipur Literature Festival

Bollywood actress Huma Qurehi launched her debut novel titled, ‘Zeba: An Accidental Superhero’, at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Sunday. While interacting with the media, Huma opened up about her writing journey and revealed that her initial plan was to turn the novel’s story into a film, but the Covid-19 pandemic messed with her idea.

Huma said, “Then I started thinking of whether shall I write a script on it or turn it into a graphic novel. I delayed enough for me to write it myself. I asked many people to write but they all came back and said that you must write it because only you can write it. And then it took me about two years and whatever I felt at that point I was very much able to express that in the book very honestly so whatsoever I was around feeling I was able to pen it down.”

Huma calls the writing process therapeutic and emphasised that it is a powerful tool that helps her to relieve anxiety and think with clarity.

Further, she also reflected on her career in Bollywood and stated, “I think two things are very important in the life of any artist: success and failure. A person learns very little from success and learns a lot from failure. I think the last ten years of the film industry have been very important for me.”