Pernia Qureshi | |
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 Quershi at Lakme Fashion Week in 2016 | |
| Born | Pakistan [1] |
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| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, Kuchipudi dancer, stylist |
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| Website | perniaqureshi |
Pernia Qureshi is an Indian-American stylist, fashion entrepreneur and classical dancer based in Delhi and Mumbai. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Qureshi was born in Pakistan to Indian businessman Moin Akhtar Qureshi who is from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, [9] and Pakistani actress Nasreen Qureshi. [10] [1] [11] She did her schooling from Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India and is an alumnus of George Washington University. [12] [6]
From a young age she trained as a Kuchipudi dancer, under the dance couple Raja-Radha Reddy. [13] She has performed across India, with performances of Sufi music by Abida Parveen, and dance transliteration of the Urdu poems of Minu Bakshi. [14]
Pernia has worked as a stylist for Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Conde Nast; and designed costumes for the Bollywood film Aisha . [15]
Pernia played a tawaif in Muzaffar Ali's drama film set in pre-independence India, Jaanisaar , opposite Imran Abbas Naqvi. [16] [17] [18] The movie was released on 7 August 2015. [17]
In 2011, Qureshi married London-based Indian accountant Arjun Prasad. The couple divorced in 2012. [19] In 2019 she married Indian businessman Sahil Gilani. [4] Pernia Qureshi acquired US citizenship in 2008, thus relinquishing her Indian citizenship, but has held a Person of Indian Origin Card. [20] [2]
She launched an e-commerce website, Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, in 2012. [21] The site offers India's premier designers to a global clientele. Pernia's Pop-Up Shop was acquired by Purple Style Labs in 2019.
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My trips to Pakistan have always been very good. Pakistan is like home to me. I have family there, I was born in Pakistan and my mother is from Pakistan.
I am only speaking Urdu in the film and it wasn't a problem because I am from UP, my father is from Rampur, my mother is from Pakistan
