Huma Qureshi is hardly the glamorous'heroine', yet she has managed to steal hearts with her sheer talent.Afterwatchingherpowerful performance in Gangs of Wasseypur, Govind Nihalani had compared her with Smita Patil. And now she is reportedly having affairs with two of her directors — Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Chaubey. However, when cornered for a chat, Huma rubishes the allegations and claims: "My life is really not as exciting as it is made out to be.Pardon me if I sound cocky,but it seems those who are spreading such rumours don't want to recognise my talent and hard work. It is easy to malign someone by saying: 'Oh she must have managed to bag the role because she's having an affair with the director'. Both Anurag and Kalki are my friends. As for Abhishek , we have just started shooting together a month back."

Huma says her ideal man would be someone who would understand her and her professional obligations. "I want a real, grounded person — someone who knows that behind all the razzmatazz and glamour, I am just a simple, real person." And her days of struggle are still fresh in her mind.Her middle class parents were aghast at her decision to join the film industry. And her dad had given her just a year to try her luck in the industry. "Once you have kind of made it, everyone wants to look at you as if it all happened magically. No one wants to look at the struggle that one goes through. When I first came to Mumbai, I suffered many rejections. I have waited in long queues to be auditioned. Though I remember each of these rejections, at no point did I chose to be bitter about it. I am just glad that I have somehow managed to make it." She is anything but size zero and says she never wanted to fit into the mould of a typical actress."

It is unfortunate that the popular idea of beauty is limited to someone's size or weight. Iam not trying to be a role model. I am just comfortable being myself. I can't live according to someone else's idea of what I should be. If I can be paired with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Emraan Hashmi, what's the problem? I am not going to get obsessed about my looks. I am fine as long as I am not looking ugly. Also when people spoke about my weight,no one knew that I was asked to get plump for Nikhil Advani's Dday. The shoot gets over this July and then I can lose weight." Huma also insists that size zero was just a phase. " Curves are back!" However, being a star is no easy task and Huma says: "As much I love my work, at the end of the day I feel lonely. You spend your whole day on the sets and once a film is over,you lose touch with the people you become friends with during the shoot. And the friends you have in the outside world stop relating to you and your world after a certain point. This profession demands a lot of sacrifice. But yes, at the end of it, it all seems worth it."