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Gauri Pradhan Tejwani is an Indian businesswoman, former model turned and Indian television actress best known for playing the roles of Gauri Mittal in Kutumb and Nandini Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. She is currently playing the character of Falguni Harshad Parekh in the tele-series Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi.
Gauri Pradhan was born in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Her father Major Subhash Vasudeo Pradhan is a retired Indian Army Officer and her mother Asha is a homemaker. Pradhan is the second of three siblings; her older brother Bharat, is a petrochemical engineer, while her younger sister Geetanjali, is a M.D. Pradhan is the only one in her family to have pursued modelling and acting as a career.
Her childhood was spent travelling throughout the country owing to the nature of her father's job. As a result she studied in different schools, one of them was the Carmel Convent School in Udhampur. After her father's retirement, the family settled in Pune (Maharashtra), where she attended Sir Parshurambhau College for a course in BSc (Electronics). Later she enrolled for a course in psychology from an institute affiliated with London University.