“Maine Pyar Kiya’s” Seema aka Pervien Dastur, actress turned air hostess replaced in Salman and Aamir’s films
“Maine Pyar Kiya’s” Seema aka Pervien Dastur, actress turned air hostess replaced in Salman and Aamir’s films
For those unversed Pervein played a vamp in Salman Khan and Bhagyashree’s love story
“Maine Pyar Kiya’.
Pervien Dastur makes her comeback on the screen after three decades, and has a lot of stories to share.
“Maine Pyar Kiya” was one of one of the biggest hits of the 80s and top-grosser of 1989, and broke and set several box office records. Sooraj Barjatya’s debut directorial carved careers for actors, including Salman Khan, Bhagyashree, Mohnish Bahl, Alok Nath, Reema Lagoo, and Dilip Joshi.
Pervien Dastur, who played the role of the vamp Seema, went disappeared from the big screen following the film’s release.
Born in Mumbai, Pervien’s family had no connect with the film industry. Amid her college days, she dabbled into modelling, and then was spotted by a director and asked to audition for a play. Pervien succeeded in the audition, and that’s how her journey as an actor kicked-off. Prior to joining films, Pervien was featuring in multiple English plays with stars like Naseeruddin Shah, and Pearl Padamsee. At that time around, Sooraj was on.the look out for new faces for his film.
Sooraj had spotted Pervien in a comedy play and was impressed with Pervien.He called his father, Raj Kumar Barjatiya. They offered her the film, and she accepted. For the film, Pervien was paid
Rs 25,000, whereas Bhagyashree was paid
Rs 1.5 lakhs.
Flowing the film’s release, After Pervien realised that her character was accepted and acclaimed widely among the masses. Pervien received many offers, but, she didn’t accept them, as she felt that the characters offered to her had little-to-no dept, or importance to the narrative.
Amid her interaction with the media, Pervien asserted that whatever offers came her way, there was absolutely no fun in that. Jokingly the actress mentioned that maybe she was spoiled by Rajshri.
Pervien Dastur started working as an air hostess
In the same media interaction, Pervien elaborated that she was unhappy with the offers she was getting, thus, Pervien transformed her career from films to hostess with Air India. Pervien was happy by putting her filmy career on the back burner.
Notably, Pervien is also a professional hair stylist and her Instagram feed is full of happy clients with beautiful hairdos done by the actress.
After Maine Pyar Kiya, Salman and Pervien were supposed to share screen space once again come for Suryavanshi- this was in 1992. She signed the film and was waiting for her call. A month later, Pervien got to know through Screen Magazine that she was replaced by Amrita Singh. Similarly, Pervien was signed to work with Aamir Khan in Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke. But in the meantime, she received an appointment call from the airline. Pervien preferred to work as an air hostess, and her role went to Navneet Nishan. Pervien was also offered the series Zabaan Sambhaal Ke, but it went to Tanaaz Currim Irani.
Pervien dated model, actor Shahrukh Irani and both enjoyed a whirlwind romance for years, and finally tied the knot in 1992.
It is learnt that the couple is blessed with two daughters. While the 26 year old elder daughter is based in Ireland, her 22 year younger daughter gears up to join her sister soon for further studies.
Pervien will return to the screen with the digital show, murder mystery Margao File, and she will be accompanied by an ensemble cast including Zeenat Aman, her younger daughter, Shahrukh Irani, Pallavi Joshi, and Kitu Gidwani. The show is expected for August release this year.
News input KV Raman
