The Pantaloon Femina Miss India Beauty Pageant Was Held On April 5, 2008 on Saturday at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai.
29 contestants from all over India - MISS INDIA BEAUTY PAGEANT ON APRIL 5, 2008, SATURDAY AT ANDHERI SPORTS COMPLEX, MUMBAI
The Pantaloon Femina Miss India awards beauty pageant was just over about two weeks ago last week, on April 5 2008 during the weekend in the evening. The beauty pageant was held at Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai.The Femina Miss India competition began in 1964. This beauty pageant has been held annually except for 1989. Holding this beauty pageant gives much opportunity to the young pretty gils from all over India tuning their dreams into reality.
Miss Pantaloon Famina is organized by Femina women’s magazine and Pantaloons is a multi format retailer in India offering food, fashion, home solutions, consumer electronics, books and music, health, wellness and beauty, general merchandise, communication, leisure and entertainment products.
The winner for this beauty pageant won by Parvathy Omanakuttan from Kerala and she was crowned as Miss India 2008. She will be representing India in the Miss World Beauty Pageant. As for the other two runner-ups, they will be representing India this year for Both the runner-ups Miss Earth whereas the other runner-up will present Miss Universe for this year.
Newly crowned winners of Miss India from left to right - Miss India Earth (Harshita Saxena) , Miss India World ( Parvathy Omanakuttan) and Miss India Universe (Simran Kaur Mundi)
The winner of Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2008 is Parvathy Omanakuttan from Kerala.
Runner-up Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2008 is Harshita Saxena from Goa.
Runner-up Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2008 is Simran Kaur Mundi from Mumbai.
During the finale of the beauty pageant, the finalists was given a question and see how well they could answer them and they were only given 90 seconds for the question given. The question was "The rate of divorce in India is on a rise. What is the cause?"
Newly crowned Miss India from left to right Miss India Earth Harshita Saxena, Miss India World Parvathy Omanakuttan and Miss India Universe Simran Kaur Mundi
The three winners of the winners contestants answered so well. As I read the answers from the sources I was amazed by the answer given by them.
- "Marriages are what we make of it. Divorces are prominent because we don’t have the abilities to sustain them. We have to be more strong and determined as human beings."
- "Divorces are not a result of western influence. At the end of the day, it is we who decide whose worth us. Marriage is not when one completes the other but is when both share their completeness"
- The mindset is changing but divorces cannot be attributed to western influences. In fact we need to come up with a system to tackle this dilemma.
Popular artistes such as Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Sameera Reddy performed for the night beaty pageant.
Congratulations to all the winners of Miss India Beauty Pageant.
Femina Miss India 2008 Finalists Pictures. There are 29 contestants in the finale of the beauty pageant but only three will represent their country to participate and represent for The Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Earth.
Biography/Profile of Parvathy Omanakuttan (Miss World)
Age:20 yrs
Height:5' 8.5"
Stats:32-27-36
Occupation: South Indian Model and Beauty Queen
Place of Birth: Kottayam Kerala
Presently staying in Mumbai
She was crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2008 in Mumbai on 5th April 2008.
Harshita Saxena
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 9.12"
Stats: 34-25.5-37.5
Hobbies: Dancing, reading, playing basketball and listening to music.
Harshita Saxena from Goa was crowned as the Runner-up Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2008
Simran Kaur Mundi
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 10"
Stats: 34-25.5-35
Hobbies: Listening to music, reading, writing poems, sketching and playing basketball.
Simran Kaur Mundi from Mumbai was crowned as the Runner-up Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2008.
Alisha Pekha
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 7.88"
Stats: 31-23.5-31.5
Hobbies: Shopping, working out, dancing
Aakanksha Mansukhani
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 5.12"
Stats: 34.5-25.5-34
Hobbies: Dancing, writing poems, cooking and listening to music. Loves Sports like: basketball, swimming and bowling.
Aditi Singh
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 8.4"
Stats: 33-26-37
Hobbies: Dancing, listening to music and playing basketball.
Akshamma Bais
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 7.28"
Stats: 33-25.5-37.5
Hobbies: Reading, listening to music, writing (poetry), acting and playing basketball.
Esha Sinha
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 7.4"
Stats: 32.5-24.5-35.5
Hobbies: Dramatics, basketball, travelling and dancing.
Farah R. Parvaresh
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 8"
Stats: 33.5-26.5-37.5
Hobbies: Music and dance, travelling.
Kajal Jain
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 6.8"
Stats: 32-26-36.5
Hobbies: Modeling, dancing, acting and playing basket ball.
Karishma Gupte
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 7”
Stats: 32.5-24-35
Hobbies: Reading books, watching films and playing basketball.
Kavya Barli
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5'5.5"
Stats: 32-25.75-35.5
Hobbies: Singing, writing poems , anything to do with creativity.
Lekha Anatharaman
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 10.8"
Stats: 32.25-25-35.5
Hobbies: 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
Hobbies: Writing, travelling, reading, watching movies.
Manisha Yadav
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 8.08"
Stats: 32-24-36.5
Hobbies: Reading, writing, travelling, teaching, playing badminton and table tennis and swimming.
Nupur Sharma
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 8"
Stats: 34-24.5-35.5
Hobbies: Acting, dancing and singing.
Pragya Jaiswal
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 8"
Stats: 32-25-34
Hobbies: 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
Hobbies: Singing and Painting.
Sangeeta Bora
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 7.2"
Stats: 32.5-25.5-33.5
Hobbies: Reading, writing for school magazine.
Sangeeta Chauhan
Age: 23 yrs
Height: 5' 9.64"
Stats: 33.5-28-36.5
Hobbies: Travelling, reading, cooking and listening to music.
Shireen Farooq
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 6.8"
Stats: 31.5-24-35
Hobbies: Shopping, travelling for the former, dancing, studying body language, meditation and yoga.
Shreya Dhanwanthary
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5'8"
Stats: 33-27-37
Hobbies: Dancing, reading books, organising events, choreography etc.
Shruti Dilip
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 7.5"
Stats: 35.5-28.5-37
Hobbies: Listening to western music and fast tracks, watching English movies and serials, reading and swimming.
Sonia Aiyappa
Age: 21 yrs
Height: 5' 7"
Stats: 32.5-25.5-36.5
Hobbies: Travelling, listening to music, watching movies.
Sujata Das
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 7.56"
Stats: 33-25.5-35.5
Hobbies: Travelling, watching movies, listening to music, surfing net, dancing and playing Badminton.
Sweety Chaturvedi
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 9"
Stats: 34-27-40
Hobbies: Reading books, mountain climbing.
Tanvi Vyas
Age: 22 yrs
Height: 5' 8.56"
Stats: 32.5-26-37.5
Hobbies: Travelling to places.
Tapasee Pannu
Age: 20 yrs
Height: 5' 7.6"
Stats: 32-26-37
Hobbies: Dancing
Profile of Miss India Worldwide 2008 - Shagun Sarabhai is a 20-year-old Mumbai homeopathy student was crowned Miss India Worldwide 2008 at a gala banquet in Johannesburg in early hours of Sunday on February 23, 2008.
Miss India Worldwide Winner 2008
Vital Statistics
Height : 5' 6.5" (168.77 cms)
Bust : 34" (86.36 cms)
Waist : 25" (63.5 cms)
Hips : 35.5" (90.17 cms)
Shoe Size : 8
Hair : Black
Eyes : Black
City : Mumbai
Mrs Madhvi Awasthi is Gladrags Mrs India 2008 - Missis India 2008
Another beauty pageant Gladrags Mrs India 2008 - Missis India 2008 was held last year 2007 at the grand finale in Bombay.
Mrs Madhvi Awasthi was crowned the new Gladrags Mrs India 2008.
The 1st runner-up went to Mrs Tanu Singh
and the 2nd runner-up went to Mrs Yukti Mehandiratta.
The judges of the beauty pageant contest were:
Mrs Maureen Wadia,
National award winner Shabana Azmi,
Bollywood star Mahima Choudhury,
Malaika Arora Khan, John Abraham,
Mehul Choksi, Mr S K Gupta,
Dr Amardas Gupta
and Director of Botox Rajiv Nagi.
This special event beauty pageant contest was hosted by Sajid Khan. The winners will represent India against 75 countries at Mrs Globe contest in Las Vegas, California and Mrs Universe in Bulgaria. Congratulations to the winners.
