New Delhi: Actor Huma Qureshi’s turn as Rani Bharti in ‘Maharani’ – an unlettered housewife who unexpectedly becomes Bihar’s chief minister – got a review from a bureaucrat when it first premiered in 2021. An IAS officer messaged the actor on social media with a mix of praise and protest.

“You acted really well but I did not like one thing. There is a fantastical element in the show – a loyal Bihari woman would never send her husband to jail,” he told the actor in a DM.

Qureshi’s titular character Bharti, on the show, sends her husband to jail over a scam at the end of Season 1.

This was contrary to what once played out in Bihar when Lalu Prasad Yadav had made his wife Rabri Devi the chief minister after he was forced to resign in 1997 and eventually jailed over the fodder scam. But th

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