Pernia Qureshi

Pernia Qureshi

Qureshi at Lakme Fashion Week in 2017
Born Pernia Moin Qureshi
Swat, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan[1]
Residence Mumbai, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Entrepreneur, actress, stylist
Website perniaspopupshop.com

Pernia Moin Qureshi is an Indian fashion entrepreneur and actress.[2] She has worked as a stylist with Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Conde Nast in New York and New Delhi.[3] She has also ventured into designing costumes for Bollywood stars, namely the film Aisha (2010).[4] She created and launched Pernia’s Pop-Up Shop, India’s first true fashion website that showcases over a 100 designers, and is available to the global clientele.[5] Her book, Be Stylish with Pernia Qureshi, was published by Random House Publishers in 2013.[6]

Early days

Pernia is a formally trained Kuchipudi dancer, under the renowned dance couple Raja-Radha Reddy.[7] She has performed at multiple dance recitals across India with performances of Sufi music by Abida Parveen, and dance transliteration of the Urdu poems of Minu Bakshi.[8]

Acting career

Pernia incorporates her talent into the courtesan she plays in Muzaffar Ali's periodical drama film Jaanisaar opposite Imran Abbas Naqvi, [9] a period drama set in pre-Independence India,[10] as a courtesan.[11] The movie was released in August 7, 2015.[10]

Filmography

Personal life

Qureshi was born in Swat, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan[1] to an Indian father hailing from Rampur, Moin Qureshi, and Pakistani mother, Nasreen Qureshi.[2][12][13] Moin Qureshi is a leading meat exporter based in India, and has recently been on the run from the Indian Department of Income Tax for allegedly indulging in Hawala transactions and amassing black money.[14][15]

She tied the knot with UK-based banker, Arjun Prasad, a close relative of junior Cabinet Minister Jitin Prasada in 2011, and they moved into an apartment in Lodhi Gardens.[15] In less than a year, the couple split.[16] She is currently single.

References

  1. 1 2 "Fashionista Extraordinaire: Pernia Qureshi". Sunday Magazine. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2015. 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
  2. 1 2 "Moin Qureshi wife's French, Pakistan connections on Enforcement Directorate radar". DNA India.
  3. "Stylist-entrepreneur Pernia Qureshi talks about her inspiring fashion career and new book on style". DNA India. Retrieved 25 Feb 2015.
  4. "Style File". Style File. Retrieved 26 Feb 2015.
  5. "Pernia's Pop Up Shop Goes Pink". Elle India. Retrieved 26 Feb 2015.
  6. "Pernia steps it up HOT!". ACTFAQ's. Retrieved 26 Feb 2015.
  7. "Bright Young Thing". India Today. Retrieved 26 Feb 2015.
  8. "Pernia Qureshi and Imran Abbas Khan in Jaanisaar". Times Of India. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  9. "Imran Abbas is the life of ‘Jaanisaar’". Indian Express. Retrieved 26 Feb 2015.
  10. 1 2 "First look of Pernia Qureshi and Imran Abbas Naqvi starrer Jaanisaar revealed!". Bollywood Life. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  11. "'Jaanisaar': Check Pernia Qureshi's royal avatar". India Glitz. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  12. "Small talk: Pop goes Pernia".
  13. "Salman Khan is my dream actor to work with!: Pernia Qureshi". DNA India. 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
  14. "I-T case against Moin Qureshi among the biggest under new Black Money Act". 16 October 2016.
  15. 1 2 "HAWALA: THE MEAT OF THE MATTER".
  16. "Pernia Qureshi: I will marry when the time is right - Times of India".
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