HT No TV Day: Siblings Huma Qureshi, Saqib Saleem share their plans

This No TV Day Weekend, actor-siblings Huma Qureshi and Saqib Saleem say it’s a great idea to hang out with family, and tell Brunch how they spend their off days at home.

It’s 10am. Huma Qureshi has been up for a few hours. She has even knocked on her brother Saqib Saleem’s bedroom door a couple of times, but there has been no response. Saqib, unlike Huma, isn’t a morning person.



She tries to wake him up again, knowing well that another knock on the door will annoy him. He wakes up, and they have their first quarrel of the day, about why she had to wake him up so early.



"I’m so used to these morning fights now," jokes Saqib. "In fact, if my day hasn’t begun with a fight with Huma, it’s not begun right."



No two siblings can live without fighting, Huma believes. Add a new, plush house in Andheri (they were renting an apartment for a long time before that and grew up in Delhi), to the equation, and the usual organised-person-clumsy-person arguments are sufficient to keep them busy all day.



"We have very few days when we’re home together," she says. "And whenever that happens, we have totally different agendas. He wants to sleep in, and I want to get the chores done. We have the usual boy-girl issues in the house. He’s just, such a boy!"



"But I am a boy!" protests Saqib, and they get into another typical sibling squabble.



Coming from probably the last generation that hasn’t grown up addicted to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets, Huma and Saqib say that there are a lot of things to do when the screens are off. Fighting over small things and then making up is, evidently, their favourite on the list.

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