Huma Qureshi on Playing Deaf and Mute in Baby Do Die Do: 'My Biggest Strength Was Taken Away'

Huma Qureshi has spoken about the specific challenge of her role in Baby Do Die Do, where she plays a deaf and mute assassin. "My biggest strength was taken away from me," she said, describing the process of building a character without access to dialogue, the actor's most instinctive tool.

Baby Do Die Do closed its theatrical run at 7.16 crore net against a 22 crore budget, a modest result for a film that opened in the same crowded early-July week as Alpha. The box office outcome says little about the specific performance challenge Qureshi is describing, and press attention has picked up around her comments well after the film's theatrical window closed.

Baby Do Die Do closed its theatrical run at 7.16 crore net against a 22 crore budget, a modest result for a film that opened in the same crowded early-July week as Alpha.

Playing a character stripped of speech is a familiar actor's dare, but Qureshi's framing, that this was her own biggest strength being removed rather than simply a technical challenge, suggests the role asked for something more personal than a typical physical-performance exercise.