India, July 9 -- Trust Huma Qureshi to challenge the conventional portrayal of the Hindi film heroine. She has done it before with films such as Gangs of Wasseypur and the hugely successful web series Maharani. Now, she is challenging the idea of how a female action star is supposed to look with her new film, Baby Do Die, a thriller about a deaf and mute assassin.

In a new interview with PTI, Huma has said she hopes the film leads to more such interesting roles being written for women. The actor, who has also produced the movie, said the beauty of playing a character like Baby is that she is not outlined and easily mixes into the crowd

"The fact that she is so normal and regular looking and yet such a lethal killer is what makes it such...