There is a conversation that keeps resurfacing in the Hindi film industry, and this time, actor Huma Qureshi has brought it back into focus. Many filmmakers and actors from smaller towns have often said that Hindi cinema feels less and less rooted in the language it claims to represent. Now, Huma says that the issue begins right on film sets, where English dominates the conversations and even Hindi film scripts are printed in English.

Speaking to Shubhankar Mishra on his YouTube channel, Huma said she finds it strange that films intended for a Hindi-speaking audience often aren’t created in Hindi at all.

“The problem in our industry now is that even though it is the Hindi film industry, half the people don’t really know Hindi properly. In fact, most of the communication on sets happens i

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