Huma Qureshi in Maharani (2021) | Kangra Talkies/SonyLIV
The barely literate wife of a chief minister is named as his replacement when he becomes indisposed. Of course, this actually happened in Bihar in 1997, when Lalu Prasad Yadav picked his spouse Rabri Devi to replace him after he was named as an accused in a multi-crore fodder scam. Had Yadav not made his audacious move, we might not have had the SonyLIV web series
Maharani.
Bheema Bharti (Sohum Shah) is Bihar’s popular lower-caste chief minister (his specific caste isn’t mentioned). His wife Rani (Huma Qureshi) lives in her ancestral village with their three children, far away from the state capital Patna and completely ignorant of what Bheema does for a living.