Huma Qureshi & Nawazuddin Siddiqui Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Huma Qureshi acted in every film; Nawazuddin Siddiqui acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Huma Qureshi was a total unknown when Anurag Kashyap cast her opposite Nawazuddin in Gangs of Wasseypur. She had zero film experience. Nawazuddin, already a stage veteran, helped her through her first-ever film scene — the one where she slaps him. She was terrified. He told her to just go for it.
• In Badlapur (2015), Nawazuddin improvised the entire 'chai mein biscuit dooba ke khana' monologue on set. Huma, playing his wife, had to react in real time — no rehearsal. Her stunned silence in that scene is genuine. She didn't know he was going to say half of it.
• During the Gangs of Wasseypur shoot, Nawazuddin would quietly slip Huma notes with acting tips — like 'don't blink before the punchline' or 'hold the pause longer.' She still has a few of those notes saved in a diary.
• Huma Qureshi once said: 'Nawaz is the only co-star who can make me forget the camera is rolling. He doesn't act — he just becomes. And then I have no choice but to become too.'
• Their pairing in Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) directly inspired a wave of 'small-town gangster love stories' in Hindi cinema. Films like Mukkabaaz (2017) and Sonchiriya (2019) cast their leads with a similar raw, non-glamorous dynamic — a direct line from what Huma and Nawazuddin did first.