Pernia Qureshi

Pernia Qureshi is an Indian-American stylist, fashion entrepreneur and classical dancer based in Delhi and Mumbai.

Life and career
Qureshi was born in Pakistan to Indian businessman Moin Akhtar Qureshi who is from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, and Pakistani actress Nasreen Qureshi. She did her schooling from Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India and is an alumnus of George Washington University.

From a young age she trained as a Kuchipudi dancer, under the dance couple Raja-Radha Reddy. She has performed across India, with performances of Sufi music by Abida Parveen, and dance transliteration of the Urdu poems of Minu Bakshi.

Pernia has worked as a stylist for Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Conde Nast; and designed costumes for the Bollywood film Aisha.

Pernia played a tawaif in Muzaffar Ali's drama film set in pre-independence India, Jaanisaar, opposite Imran Abbas Naqvi. The movie was released on 7 August 2015.

Personal life
In 2011, Qureshi married London-based Indian accountant Arjun Prasad. The couple divorced in 2012. In 2019 she married Indian businessman Sahil Gilani. Pernia Qureshi acquired US citizenship in 2008, thus relinquishing her Indian citizenship, but has held a Person of Indian Origin Card.

Ecommerce platform
She launched an e-commerce website, Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, in 2012. The site offers India's premier designers to a global clientele. Pernia's Pop-Up Shop was acquired by Purple Style Labs in 2019.

Filmography

 * Jaanisaar (2015)