‘You Are Shaming Muslims’: Huma Qureshi trolled for posing with alcohol bottle

Actor Huma Qureshi has been trolled brutally by the moral police after she posted a picture of her’s on Instagram.

In the picture, Huma was seen having lunch while posing with an alcoholic drink which was reportedly a sponsored content.

“When Mumbai’s winter afternoons still feel like summer you fix yourself a refreshing Johnnie Lemon Hiighball. Here’s how I got this lovely drink going….Filled a highball glass way lots of ice. Pour 50 ml of Johnnie Walker. Top it with 120 ml Lemonade. Finally, dropped in a lemon wedge and voila!” she wrote in the caption.

In no time, moral police brigade took it upon themselves to tell the 34-year-old actor that being a Muslim it did not suit her and how it is a sin.

Huma shot to fame with her debut film Gangs of Wasseypur. She has worked in several Bollywood hits like Ek Thi Daayan, Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana, Dedh Ishqiya, Badlapur and Jolly LLB 2. She was widely praised for her webseries Leila.

Qureshi was born on 28 July 1986 into a Muslim family in New Delhi, India.Her father, Saleem Qureshi, is a restaurateur who runs a chain of 10 restaurants (Saleem's) her mother, Ameena Qureshi (a Kashmiri), is a housewife.

In 2008, she moved to Mumbai to audition for film roles, auditioning for a film, Junction, which was never made: "I never thought of coming to Mumbai or being an actress. But when my friend called me for an audition for a movie called Junction, it set me thinking. Sadly, the film never got made".

Qureshi was initially scheduled to make her film debut with Billa II, a Tamil gangster-thriller, directed and produced by Chakri Toleti, after surviving an audition out of 700 candidates. Although cast as the female lead, when the film was delayed