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Showing posts with label Miss India 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miss India 2008. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Miss India 2008 and Media promotion

Yesterday I wanted to write about Femina Miss India 2008 because today was the grand finale. This is perhaps the most important event for Indian beauty industry because it will select the beautiful girl that will represent India in miss universe and miss world. Femina Miss India winners have gone to big places indeed. Aishwayra Rai and Sushmita Sen have become big Bollywood celebrities and they are still doing very well. There are some others too like Diana Hayden, Lisa Ray.

I was searching internet websites for news and information about Miss India 2008 and one of the places that I thought was important was Google News. However, I was disappointed to see that there were very few news items on this beauty pageant despite the fact that tomorrow is the grand finale. Of course, you know that Miss India 2008 will be shown in Sony TV channel tomorrow and Sony is going some promotion to this event. However, except from Sony no other TV channel is giving any importance to this event. I think that the organizers of Miss India should become more concerned about the media promotion from next year. The organizers must reach out to other TV channels and it needed buy some air time from them so that they broadcast some programs on the beauty pageant.

Beauty has become a very important industry in India and it is not only Bollywood but TV industry and modeling is also flourishing in the country.

Parvathy Omanakuttam Crowned Miss India World 2008

A beautiful girl from Kerala, Parvathy Omanakuttam has become the Miss India World 2008. The grand finale of Femina Miss India 2008 was held today in the presence of guests and stars of showbiz world of India. All the 29 contestants showed their best to win the coveted crown of Miss India 2008 in a glittering evening.



Parvathy Omanakuttam
Image source: feminamissindia

Parvathy Omanakuttam entered directly in the top ten finalists of Femina Miss India 2008 as the stunning girl earlier had won the Pantaloons Femina Miss India South 2008 title last month. With 5' 8.5" of height and stats of 32-27-36, Parvathy Omanakuttam has got a gorgeous look and now you have to admit that this Kerala girl has something in her brain as well.

Today, in the star-studded ceremony, Parvathy Omanakuttam has proven her worth as a beauty with brain and ended up winning the entry to the Miss World 2008 pageant to represent India. Mumbai girl Simran Kaur has won the Miss India Universe 2008 crown becoming the 1st runner up of Femina Miss India 2008 beauty pageant, while 2nd runner up title has gone to Harshita Saxena, a 20-year-old girl from Goa, who will represent India in Miss Earth 2008 beauty contest.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Femina Miss India 2008 Finalists Spent Time with Street Children

The grand evening of Femina Miss India 2008 will be held tomorrow. No doubt, there will be lots onlookers looking at the beautiful contestants of the beauty pageant. All of the 29 participants will be eager to know who are going to win the competition. The talented and beautiful girls from different parts of India have gone though a busy schedule for the last couple of months working on their skills and talent. However, despite a busy schedule, recently the participants of Femina Miss India 2008 visited a NGO, Vatsya Foundation, where they spent some time with the street children.

Times Now reported:

On the other hand the Femina Miss India finalists, not only know how to paint the town red, but also managed to spend some time visiting the Vatsya Foundation; a home for street children and spent some quality time with the kids there. While at the Vatsya Foundation, the girls were also given a run for their money by the kids, who showed them some groovy dance moves and proved that the girls are not the only ones who know how to dance.
When quizzed about the experience with the kids at the Vatsya Foundation, Femina MIss India finalist Tanvi Vyas said, "I feel very nice. We didnt really expect this. This is the first time that I have been to an NGO and I love it. I love the immesne talent present here and I definitely want to come back and have a meet with the kids again."

Femina Miss India 2008 final participants recently went to a discotheque to have some fun and all of them met Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal. The actor appreciated Miss India 2008 beauty pageant.

Now, time has come to know who are going to become Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India Earth in 2008. To know you have to just wait till tomorrow night.

Femina Miss World 2008: A Glittering Evening Waiting

The most coveted beauty pageant of India, Femina Miss India 2008 is now on its last lap. Among the 29 contestants of Femina Miss India 2008, three winners will be crowned tomorrow in the grand evening. All the contestants will walk the ramp. After the end of all elimination rounds, the judges will select the winners based on the performance of the contestants. Bollywood stars Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Sameera Reddy will perform on the glittering evening.

There will be some popular faces of India’s showbiz world and the former winners of Miss India. Sameera Reddy will perform with some of the movie songs of Bollywood’s yesteryear glamorous actress and former Miss India Asia-Pacific winner Zeenat Aman.

Times of India reported:

The nail-biting elimination rounds that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats will be interspersed with scintillating performances by Bollywood divas Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Sameera Reddy.

The contestants will walk the ramp, choreographed by Hemant Trevedi, the official contestant director and choreographer of PFMI 2008 and will dazzle in sensational creations by Pantaloons (designed by Remanika), Ritu Kumar, Shantanu and Nikhil and Shaina NC. R Madhavan and Dia Mirza will take the audience through this entertaining evening, as the two will compere the show.

No doubt, Miss India pageant is most prestigious beauty pageant in India. The three winners of Miss India would represent India in Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Earth.

Besides all the 29 beautiful and talented girls, the showbiz and Bollywood stars would add some more glitter to the evening So, can you afford to miss the glimmering evening of this year. For your concern, Femina Miss India 2008 final competition will be telecast on Sony Television on 6 April.

Contestants of Femina Miss India 2008

The final competition of Femina Miss India 2008 is set to be held on April 5 2008. The three much-awaited crowns: Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India Earth- are now up for grab for the 29 aspiring contestants of the pageant. Femina Miss India is the most highlighted beauty contest held in India by which India select three winners to be representing India in three most prestigious International beauty contests. Sony Television will air the final competition live at 8 pm. on 6 April.

All these 29 contestants have won the tickets of final competition though auditions. Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2008 auditions of North, West & East India were held in 12 cities including Agra, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Goa, Guwahati, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Nasik, and Pune. The short listed participants participated in regional competitions were held in Delhi and Mumbai on 25th and 27th February respectively this year.

Akshamma Bais (one of the participants)
Image Courtesy: Setindia

Audition for the girls from South India was conducted in a separately held competition titled FEMINA Miss India South 2008. The winner of this competition would directly get into the top ten finalists of final pageant. The 1st runner up and 2nd runner up took part in the regional competition. Girls selected in the regional competitions got the ticket of final competition of Femina Miss India 2008.


Parvathy Omanakuttan (winner of Femina Miss India South 2008)
Image Courtesy: Setindia

Here, I am giving the name of the 20 contestants of Femina Miss India 2008 beauty pageant:

Harshita Saxena, Alisha Pekha, Aakanksha Mansukhani, Karishma Gupte, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Akshamma Bais, Lekha Anatharaman, Manisha Yadav, Pragya Jaiswal, Rupali Khandare, Sangeeta Chauhan, Shruti Dilip, Tapasee Pannu, Sujata Das, Tanvi Vyas, Aditi Singh, Esha Sinha, Kajal Jain, Parvathy Omanakuttam, Kavya Barli, Farah R. Parvaresh, Malavika Rane, Nupur Sharma, Radha Bhrahmbhatt, Sangeeta Bora, Shireen Farooq, Simran Kaur Mundi, Sonia Aiyappa, Sweety Chaturvedi.

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Femina Miss India 2008: Meet the contestants

Once again, India's most prestigious beauty pageant, Pantaloons Femina Miss India is here. This year, 28 contestants are participating in the final. Let's meet the girls.

Harshita Saxena
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 9.12"
Stats: 34-25.5-37.5
She looks a bit like Jeenat Aman.
Harshita enjoys dancing, reading, playing basketball and listening to music

Kajal Jain
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 6.8"
Stats: 32-26-36.5
Kajal loves modeling, dancing, acting and playing basket ball.

Karishma Gupte
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 7”
Stats: 32.5-24-35
Karishma loves reading books, watching films and playing basketball

Kavya Barli
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5'5.5"
Stats: 32-25.75-35.5
There is something about her look that makes her different from other girls.
Kavya loves singing, writing poems, and anything to do with creativity.

Lekha Anatharaman
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 10.8"
Stats: 32.25-25-35.5
She has that innocent girl look.
Lekha loves dancing , reading, travelling, listening to different genres of music, playing Badminton, netball , volley ball and swimming.

Malavika Rane
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 8.12"
Stats: 34-25-37.5
Malavika enjoys writing, travelling, reading, watching movies.

Manisha Yadav
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 8.08"
Stats: 32-24-36.5
Manisha loves reading, writing, travelling, teaching, playing badminton and table tennis and swimming.

Parvathy Omanakuttan
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 8.5"
Stats: 32-27-36
The winner of Miss India South 2008, Parvathy looks stunning. Win or not win the contest, I think, she should try the cinema. Her hobbies include listening to music, dancing, glass painting, reading, playing basketball and badminton.

Pragya Jaiswal
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 8"
Stats: 32-25-34
Pragya loves dancing, eating, travelling and listening to music.

Radha Bhrahmbhatt
Age: 18 yrs
Height: 5' 8.7"
Stats: 30.5-23.5-36.5
Hobbies: Dancing, singing, dramatics, swimming and jogging.

Rupali Khandare
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 10.4"
Stats: 32.5-26-36
Rupali enjoys singing and painting.

Sangeeta Bora
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 7.2"
Stats: 32.5-25.5-33.5
Another face that stands out of the crowd. Sangeeta’s hobbies include reading, and writing for school magazine.

Sangeeta Chauhan
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 9.64"
Stats: 33.5-28-36.5
I liked her the moment her picture appeared in front of me on the webpage. Her hobbies include travelling, reading, cooking and listening to music.

Shireen Farooq
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 6.8"
Stats: 31.5-24-35
This lady may not stand out for her look but definitely for her hobby; studying body language. For the first time, I am hearing about such a hobbie. How about you people? Shireen loves shopping, travelling for the former, dancing, studying body language, meditation and yoga.

Shreya Dhanwanthary
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5'8"
Stats: 33-27-37
In Bangla language, “Dhanwanthary” refers to the god of physicians. I do not know whether Sherya is a physician but she is definitely good looking. Her hobbies are- dancing, reading books, debating, organising events, choreography, symposiums and extempore, philately, photography, watching movies, playing video games, parasailing, swimming, trekking, chess, caroms, pool, and bowling.

Shruti Dilip
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 7.5"
Stats: 35.5-28.5-37
Another good looking girl with lots of hope. Shruti enjoys listening to western music and fast tracks, watching English movies and serials, reading and swimming.

Simran Kaur Mundi
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 10"
Stats: 34-25.5-35
This gorgeous girl will definitely turn your MUNDI (head). Her hobbies include listening to music, reading, writing poems, sketching and playing basketball.

Sonia Aiyappa
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 7"
Stats: 32.5-25.5-36.5
Sonia loves to travel, listening to music, and watching movies.

Sujata Das
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 7.56"
Stats: 33-25.5-35.5
Sujata enjoys travelling, watching movies, listening to music, surfing net, dancing and playing badminton.

Sweety Chaturvedi
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 9"
Stats: 34-27-40
Sweety’s hobby includes reading books, and mountain climbing.

Femina Miss India 2008 Final to be Held on April 5 in the Presence of Stars of Showbiz World

It is time to look at the glittering final evening of Femina Miss India 2008 set to be held on next Saturday. From the short list of 29 beautiful girls across India, three girls will be crowned at the ceremony, who will represent India international beauty pageants Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Earth. The winner of the competition will take part in Miss World beauty contest, while 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up will be crowed Miss India Universe and Miss India Earth title respectively.

Some of the popular stars of India’s showbiz world will be seen in the ceremony. The guest will be entertained by the sizzling performance of Bollywood stars like Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Sameera Reddy. The former winners of Miss India beauty contest are expected to be present on this grand occasion. Sarah-Jane Dias is the reigning Miss India World and Puja Gupta holds Miss India Universe and the Miss Earth title is occupied by Pooja Chitgopekar. Now, let us see who are going to win these prestigious crowns this year and get the ticket of three widely known beauty pageant.

Related article:

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Femina Miss India 2008 in Sony Television Channel

The final competition of Femina Miss India 2008 is going to be held on 5 April . You can enjoy the glimmering evening on Sony Television at 8 pm. on 6 April and see who are going to be crowned to represent Indian in Miss World, Miss India and Miss Earth beauty contest this year. However, I am shocked to know that this year no television channel will telecast the final competition live.

Miss India beauty contest has been organizing by Femina since 1964 and this is the major beauty contest held in India to decide participants who represent India in international beauty contests. Reports have it that the sparkling evening will see some of the beautiful and gorgeous showbiz stars. Glamorous actresses like Kareena Kapoor, Sameera Reddy and Bipasha Basu will perform in the ceremony.

Indian Television reported:

The biggest & the brightest beauty pageant will also pay tribute to one of India's earliest beauty queens -Zeenat Aman. The gorgeous diva Sameera Reddy will dance to all Zeenat Aman's popular numbers bringing back the glorious days of the glamour actress on screen. Not just that, the evening will witness sizzling performances by the Bipasha Basu, Kareena Kapoor among others.

The glittering evening will see the crowning of three beautiful and talented girls who will represent India on the global platform. Stay tuned to Sony Entertainment Television on Sunday, April 6,at 8.00 p.m. to cheer for India's most beautiful women.

Femina Miss India 2008 final evening will be hosted by Chairman R. Madhavan and former winner of Miss India and current Bollywood actress Diya Mirza. It is expected that all the familiar faces of Indian showbiz will present in the evening to see the talented Indian beauties. So, I guess, you have already started to manage your time on Sunday to watch this once-in-a-year competition on Sony Television channel.