Miss India is an annual, national beauty pageant held in India and organized by Femina & Pantaloons, a women’s magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, a media group owned by the Sahu Jain family, which also houses the Times of India and Filmfare magazine. The use of Miss India is in no way trademarked. Femina Miss India continues to be one of the highly recognized and well noted pageants to produce International Beauty Queens.
Contents
- 1 International Pageants
- 2 Record Breakers
- 3 Controversies
- 4 Tragedy
- 5 List of winners
- 6 Femina Winners
- 6.1 2008
- 6.2 2007
- 6.3 2006
- 6.4 2005
- 6.5 2004
- 6.6 2003
- 6.7 2002
- 6.8 2001
- 6.9 2000
- 6.10 1999
- 6.11 1998
- 6.12 1997
- 6.13 1996
- 6.14 1995
- 6.15 1994
- 6.16 1993
- 6.17 1992
- 6.18 1991
- 6.19 1990
- 6.20 1989
- 6.21 1988
- 6.22 1987
- 6.23 1986
- 6.24 1985
- 6.25 1984
- 6.26 1983
- 6.27 1982
- 6.28 1981
- 6.29 1980
- 6.30 1979
- 6.31 1978
- 6.32 1977
- 6.33 1976
- 6.34 1975
- 6.35 1974
- 6.36 1973
- 6.37 1972
- 6.38 1971
- 6.39 1970
- 6.40 1969
- 6.41 1968
- 6.42 1967
- 6.43 1966
- 6.44 1965
- 6.45 1964
- 6.46 1962
- 6.47 1961
- 6.48 1960
- 6.49 1959
- 6.50 1954
- 6.51 1953
- 6.52 1952
- 6.53 1947
- 7 References
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
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International Pageants
Miss India has been participating in the Miss Universe pageant since 1952, starting with Indrani Rehman; and in the Miss World pageant since 1959, starting with Fleur Ezekiel. There is no restriction that the winner of Miss India (or winner of National Title) can participate in Miss World pageant and Miss Universe pageant in the same year, however, after the Femina Miss India pageant was established, the practice was to send the winner to the Miss Universe pageant and the runner-up to the Miss World contest, however in 2007, the organization changed to send the winner to Miss World and the first runner-up to Miss Universe. Usually a second-runner up or an independent pageant winner would be sent to international pageants like Miss Asia, Miss International and Miss Asia-Pacific. Starting from 1997, the practice of choosing a single winner or “Miss India” was changed to instead elect representatives to the different international pageants, and three winners, who receive equal prizes and status but are called Miss India winners, are chosen, and designated Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India Asia-Pacific. As of 2002, the third winner would no longer be sent to Miss Asia-Pacific, but to Miss Earth pageant, which is currently recognized as one of the three most prestigious beauty pageants in the world in terms of size and quality.
The awards for 1989 were given at the end of the year (December); hence there was no separate contest for 1990. No contest was held in 1989. In 1988 Eve’s Weekly winners Miss India International – Shikha Swaroop and Miss India Earth and Miss Bombay – Shabnam Patel, went on to win Miss MaxFactor in 1989 were very close and almost a tie and therefore both beauty queen’s featured for the first time on all the magazine covers together, as stated by Eve’s Weekly editor Gulshan Ewing.
The year 1994 was a landmark year for the pageant industry in India Sushmita Sen won the Miss Universe title after winning the Miss India crown. Sushmita Sen became the first Indian woman ever to win the Miss Universe crown. The same year the runner-up of Miss India, Aishwarya Rai, won the Miss World title. Both the Miss Universe and Miss World contests were won by Miss Indias Sushmita Sen (Miss India) and Aishwarya Rai (Miss India 94 runner-up) respectively. Today Rai is a global star and a leading Bollywood actress
The success of Sushmita Sen spawned a lot of coaching institutions which were set up to groom girls in pageant participation skills. The number of participants in the preliminary rounds of the pageant has increased considerably. Miss India World 1997, Diana Hayden won the title of Miss World 1997.Pageant winners are also groomed for months in preparation for the international contest. In 1999, the Miss India winner Yukta Mukhey went on to win the Miss World that year.
The year 2000 was another landmark year for Miss India. Three of the Miss India winners happened to win their respective international pageants – Lara Dutta (Miss Universe), Priyanka Chopra (Miss World) and Diya Mirza (Miss Asia-Pacific). This is the only country to win all three major titles in one year.
Record Breakers
Miss India 1967, Reita Faria went on to crowned the Miss World 1966, and thus became the first Miss World title holder from India.
India also holds the record for Winning the Miss Universe crown and Miss World in the same year twice. Once in 1994 with Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai and again in 2000, Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra when India also won the third largest pageant Miss Asia Pacific by Indian Beauty Dia Mirza, and in 1997 and 1999 India won Miss World title with Dian Hayden and Yukta Mookhey respectively.
India holds the highest number of Miss World winners only to be tied with Venezuela.
Miss World 1994 winner Aishwarya Rai was also voted the most beautiful of all the Miss World in 2000.
Controversies
In 2007, there was another change where the title of Femina Miss India-Universe was brought to the 1st Runner-Up title and the title of Femina Miss India-World was the winner’s title. Femina Miss India 2006 Neha Kapur was highly offended by the fact that she would be crowning the girl who placed 2nd and not the winner and walked out of the pageant when it was time to crown the 2007 Femina Miss India.
Controversies erupted again in the year 2008 when President of Gladrags, Maureen Wadia served a legal notice to the newly crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2008, Harshita Saxena for violation of a two-year exclusive contract with Gladrags which had been signed by Harshita in the year 2006. To participate in any other beauty paegent, Harshita would have required a written letter of no-objection from Gladrags. Earlier in an interview with CNN-IBN Maureen Wadia said, “Harshita Saxena from Goa is a Gladrags model. She was a part of my Megamodel Contract in April 2006. Her contract has not expired and this girl has entered in some other contest before the contract has expired. The contract clearly says that they have to take my permission.” Owing to this, Harsita had to give up the title and the crown has now passed on to Tanvi Vyas who will be representing India in the Miss Earth 2008 paegent to be held in the November of 2008.
Miss India 2001 and Fourth Runner Up in the Miss Universe 2001, Celina Jaitley claimed that she was treated unfairly by media and others in Puerto Rico where the pageant was held. The Miss India contest and its succession of many International beauty Queens that had resulted in recent years led to the speculation of the Miss Universe and Miss World competitions being rigged due to the fact that India had won many times in recent years.
Tragedy
A former Miss India Winner Nafisa Joseph committed suicide on July, 29 2004 hanging herself in her Mumbai flat. She had killed herself due to personal problems with her fiance, whom Nafisa’s parents also blamed for the death.
List of winners
Here is a list of women who have won the Miss India title. The names of those who have won the competition at the international level (Miss Universe, Miss World, etc.) are mentioned in bold.
List of Femina Miss India Pageant titleholders from 1987 up to this year
( NOTE: The winners of their respective titles are indicated in bold format )
Year
Miss India World
Miss India Universe
Miss India International
Miss India Asia-Pacific
Miss India Earth
Miss India Tourism International
1987
Kalpana Raj Pandith
Priyadarshini Pradhan
Erika Maria d’Souza
Jasleem Kaur
1988
Anuradha Kottoor
Dolly Minhas
Viola Anthony
Shikha Swaroop
Shabnam Patel
1989
Naveeda Mehdi
Suzanne Sablok(Pillai)
1990
Naveeda Mehdi
Suzanne Sablok(Pillai)
1991
Ritu Singh
Christablle Howie
1992
Shyla Lopez
Madhu Sapre
Kamal Sandhu
Mehroo Jal Mistry
1993
Karminder Kaur
Namrata Shirodkar
Pooja Batra
1994
Aishwarya Rai
Sushmita Sen
Francesca Hart
Shweta Menon
1995
Preeti Mankotia
Manpreet Brar
Priya Gill
Ruchi Malhotra
1996
Rani Jeyraj
Sandhya Chib
Fleur Xavier
Mini Menon
1997
Diana Hayden
Nafisa Joseph
Dia Abraham
Divya Chauhan
1998
Annie Thomas
Lymaraina D’Souza
Swetha Jaishankar
Vitika Aggarwal
1999
Yukta Mookhey
Gul Panag
Srikrupa Murali
Shivangi Parikh
2000
Priyanka Chopra
Lara Dutta
Gayatri Joshi
Diya Mirza
2001
Sara Corner
Celina Jaitley
Kanwal Toor
Maheshwari
Shamita Singha
2002
Shruti Sharma
Neha Dhupia
Gauhar Khan
Tina Chhatwal
Reshmi Ghosh
2003
Ami Vashi
Nikita Anand
Shonali Nagrani
Shonal Rawat
Swetha Vijay
2004
Sayali Bhagat
Tanushree Dutta
Mihika Verma
Simran Chandok
Jyoti Brahmin
2005
Sindhura Gadde
Amrita Thapar
Vaishali Desai
Niharika Singh
Sonal Chauhan
2006
Natasha Suri
Neha Kapur
Sonali Sehgal
Amruta Patki
Tanya Vakil
2007
Sarah-Jane Dias
Puja Gupta
Esha Gupta
Pooja Chitgopekar
Priyanka Shah
2008
Parvathy Omanakuttan
Simran Kaur Mundi
Tanvi Vyas
Femina Winners
2008
- Miss India World – Parvathy Omanakuttan
- Miss India Universe – Simran Kaur Mundi
- Miss India Earth –
2007
- Miss India World – Sarah Jane Dias
- Miss India Universe – Puja Gupta, later top 10 semifinalist in Miss Universe 2007
- Miss India Earth – Pooja Chitgopekar, later Miss Air 2007
2006
- Miss India Universe – Neha Kapur, later placed among the top 20 semi-finalists at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Natasha Suri, top 17 semi-finalist, second runner up (beach beauty), second runner up (dress designer award), top 10 (talent round) at the Miss World 2006 pageant held in Warsaw, Poland
- Miss India Earth – Amruta Patki, 1st runner-up at the Miss Earth 2006 pageant held in Manila, Philippines
Remainder of top 5
- Miss India International – Sonali Sehgal, top 12 semifinalist Miss International 2006 in China.
- Miss India Tourism International – Tanya Vakil, 1st runner up at Miss Tourism Queen International 2006.
2005
- Miss India Universe – Amrita Thapar
- Miss India World – Sindhura Gadde, later placed among the top 15 semi-finalists at Miss World
- Miss India Earth – Niharika Singh
Remainder of top 5 – Priyanka Jha, Priya Nayak
- Representative at Miss international – Vaishali Desai
2004
- Miss India Universe – Tanushree Dutta, later placed among the Top 10 at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Sayali Bhagat (first won by Lakshmi Pandit, who resigned over allegations regarding her eligibility for the contest, Sayali, who was earlier Miss India-Earth was promoted to the status of Miss India-World.
- Miss India Earth – Jyoti Brahmin, later placed among the Top 16 Semifinalists at Miss Earth
- Miss India Asia -Pacific -Simran Chandok
- Miss India international – Mihika Verma Later placed among the top 12
2003
- Miss India Universe – Nikita Anand
- Miss India World – Ami Vashi, later 3 runner up at Miss World 2003
- Miss India Earth – Swetha Vijay
Rest of top 5: Shonali Nagrani, Parmita Katkar
- Representative at Miss International – Shonali Nagrani, later 1 runner up at Miss International 2003
- Representative at Miss Asia Pacific – Shonal Rawat , later 1 runner up at Miss Asia Pacific
2002
- Miss India Universe – Neha Dhupia, later ninth at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Shruti Sharma semifinalist in miss world 2002
- Miss India Earth – Reshmi Ghosh
- Miss India 1st Runner Up – Gauhar Khan, later Representative at Miss International
- Miss India 2nd Runner Up – Tina Chhatwal, Later second runner up at Miss Asia-Pacific
2001
- Miss India Universe – Celina Jaitley, later fourth runner-up at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Sara Corner
- Miss India Asia-Pacific – Maheshwari Thyagarajan
Rest of top 5 – Kanwal Toor, Namita Vankawala
- Representative at Miss Earth – Shamita Singha, later fifth place at Miss Earth (first contestant from India ever to compete)
- Representative at International – Kanwal Toor, later semi-finalist Miss International
2000
- Miss India Universe- Lara Dutta, later Miss Universe, 2000 (also Miss Intercontinental 1997)
- Miss India World – Priyanka Chopra, later Miss World, 2000
- Miss India Asia-Pacific International- Diya Mirza, later Miss Asia-Pacific, 2000
Rest of top 5 – Gayatri Jayaraman, Lakshmi Rana
- Representatitive at Miss International- Gayatri Joshi, later semifinalist at Miss International 200
- Miss Talented – Yogini Nath
1999
- Miss India Universe – Gul Panag, later sixth place at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Yukta Mookhey, later Miss World, 1999
- Miss India Asia Pacific – Shivangi Parikh
- Representative at Miss International – Srikrupa Murali
1998
- Miss India Universe – Lymaraina D’Souza, later seventh place at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Annie Thomas
- Miss India Asia Pacific – Vitika Aggarwal
- Representative at Miss International – Swetha Jaishankar, later second runner-up at Miss International.
1997
- Miss India Universe – Nafisa Joseph, later 9th at Miss Universe 1997
- Miss India World – Diana Hayden, later Miss World, 1997
- Miss India Asia-Pacific – Divya Chauhan later 1 runner up at Miss Asia Pacific 1997
- Representative at Miss International – Dia Abraham, later 1 runner up at Miss International 1997
1996
- Miss India Universe- Sandhya Chib, later seventh place at Miss Universe, 1996
- Miss India World – Rani Jeyraj, later third runner-up at Miss World, 1996
- Miss India Asia-Pacific – Mini Menon, later semi-finalist at Miss Asia Pacific 1996
- Representative at Miss International – Fleur Dominique Xavier
1995
- Miss India Universe – Manpreet Brar, later first runner-up at Miss Universe
- Miss India World – Preeti Mankotia
- Miss India Asia-Pacific – Ruchi Malhotra, later first runner-up at Miss Asia Pacific
- Representative at Miss International – Priya Gill
1994
- Miss India Universe – Sushmita Sen, later Miss Universe, 1994
- Miss India World – Aishwarya Rai, later Miss World, 1994
- Miss India International – Francesca Hart
- Representative at Miss Asia-Pacific – Shweta Menon, later semi-finalist at Miss Asia-Pacific, 1994
- Miss Tourism World Wide – Barkha Madan, later fourth place, 1994
1993
- Miss India – Namrata Shirodkar, later sixth place at Miss Universe
- Miss India first runner-up – Karminder Kaur
- Miss India 2nd Runner-Up – Pooja Batra
1992
- Miss India – Madhu Sapre, later second runner-up at Miss Universe, 1992
- Miss India first runner up – Shyla Lopez
- Miss India Asia Pacific – Mehroo Jal Mistry
- Miss India International – Kamal Sandhu
1991
- Miss India – Christabelle Howie
- Miss India first runner up – Ritu Singh, later became the 2nd Runner-up at Miss Asia World, and was a semifinalist at Miss World 1991.
1990
- Miss India Universe – Suzanne Sablok(Pillai), later semi-finalist (final 10) at Miss Universe; Second in the Swimsuit Round.
- Miss India World – Naveeda Mehdi
1989
- Miss India Universe – Suzanne Sablok(Pillai), later semi-finalist (final 10) at Miss Universe; Second in the Swimsuit Round.
- Miss India World – Naveeda Mehdi
1988
- Miss India Universe- Dolly Minhas
- Miss India World – Anuradha Kottoor
- Miss India Asia Pacific – Viola Anthony
- Miss India International – Shikha Swaroop
- Miss India Earth and Miss Bombay, Miss MaxFactor – Shabnam Patel
1987
- Miss India Universe- Priyadarshini Pradhan
- Miss India World – Kalpana Raj Pandith
- Miss India International – Erika Maria d’Souza, later semifinalist at Miss International
- Miss India Asia Pacific – Jasleem Kaur
1986
- Miss India – Mehr Jessia (now Mehr Rampal)
- Miss India first runner-up – Maureen Lestourgen
1985
- Miss India – Sonu Walia
- Miss India first runner-up – Sharon Clarke
1984
- Miss India – Juhi Chawla
- Miss India first runner-up – Suchita Kumar
1983
- Miss India – Rekha Hande
- Miss India 1st runner-up – Sweety Grewal
1982
- Miss India -Pamela Singh
- Miss India first runner-up – Uttara Mhatre
1981
- Miss India – Meenakshi Sheshadri
- Miss India first runner-up – Deepti Divakar
1980
- Miss India – Sangeeta Bijlani
- Miss India 1st Runners Up – Arvinda Vinjamuri
1979
- Miss India – Swaroop Sampat
1978
- Miss India – Alamjeet Chauhan
- Miss India first runner-up – Kalpana Iyer, later 11th Place Miss World
1977
- Miss India – Nalini Vishwanathan, withdrew from the Miss World contest because of India’s policy against apartheid.
- Miss India first runners-up – Veena Prakash.
1976
- Miss India winner – Nafisa Ali, later runner-up at the Miss International contest in 1977
1975
- Miss India – Meenakshi Kurpad
- Miss India first runner-up – Anjana Sood, later semi-finalist at Miss World
1974
- Miss India – Kiran Dholakia, later semi-finalist at Miss Universe, 1974
1973
- Miss India – Farzana Habib, later semi-finalist Miss Universe
- Miss India first runner-up – none
- Miss India second runner-up -Tara Anne Fonseca,later Miss Asia Pacific 1973
1972
- Miss India – Roopa Satyan, later semi-finalist Miss Universe
- Miss India first runner-up – Malathi Basappa, later fourth runner-up at Miss World
1971
- Miss India – Raj Gill
- Miss India first runner-up – Prema Narayan
1970
- Miss India – Veena Sajnani
- Miss India first runner-up – Heather Faville, later semi-finalist Miss World
- Miss India second runner-up – Zeenat Aman, Miss Asia Pacific International, 1970.
1969
- Miss India – Kavita Bhambani
- Miss India first runner-up – Adina Shellimsex
1968
- Miss India – Anjum Mumtaz Baig
- Miss India first runner-up – Jane Coelho
1967
- Miss India – Nayyara Mirza, now known by the name Nalini Patel
- Miss India first runner-up – none
1966
- Miss India (Universe) – Yasmin Daji, later third runner-up Miss Universe, 1966
- Miss India (World)- Reita Faria, later Miss World, 1966
1965
Persis Khambatta, who would later become an actress and model best known for her role in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
1964
Meher Mistry, later known as Meher Castelino
1962
Ferial Karim, later semi-finalist Miss World
1961
Veronica Torcato
1960
Iona Pinto, first runner-up at the 1960 Miss International Pageant.
1959
Fleur Ezekiel, first Miss India to participate in Miss World
1954
- Leela Naidu
1953
Peace Kanwal
1952
- Indrani Rehman, first Miss India to participate in Miss Universe
- Nutan
1947
Esther Victoria Abraham Khan
References
- The Pride of India, a coffee table book on former Miss Indias, by Persis Khambatta, Miss India 1965
See also
- Category:Femina Miss India winners
References
- ^ Missosology: Miss Earth 2005 Competition Format. Retrieved on 2008-01-13.
- ^ Miss India history
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafisa_Ali
External links
- Femina Miss India official website
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