WHEN A CLAPPER MAKES IT BIGGER THAN THE WINNER

Miss India is known for crowning the not so pretty ones but really very smart women of substance !

There has been so many incidences in Femina Miss India Organization wherein there are no clues of the Winners but the Semi Finalists or even the Non Finalists have made it bigger than the winners !

1995

Esha Kopikkar a Non Finalist of Miss India 1995 Pageant today is a well known Actress.

The Winners that year were : Manpreet Brar ( Ist RU : Miss Universe ) ,Preeti Mankotia ( Unplaced @ MW ) , Ruchi ( Ist Runner up Miss Asia Pacific !)

Today no one knows or cares about Manpreet and co , But Esha has made it big! She is an A level Bollywood star and was recently invited to be a judge at Miss Universe pageant .


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2005



Perhaps the Weakest trio ! Amrita (Unplaced at Miss Universe) , Sindhura ( Top 16 at MW ) , Niharika ( Unplaced) had a very short limelight period ! They just could not take mileage of the Miss India fame .
Rather Sonal Chauhan , A top 10 finalist , took full advantage of whatever little coverage she got and became a Bollywood Star. She also won Miss Tourism International 2005.
There are no whereabouts of the Winners, Sindhura is a struggling actress and trying to associate herself with Femina!



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2006

Jacqueline Fernandes , Miss Sri Lanka Universe 2006 , was a non finalist as compared to Neha Kapoor Miss India 2006 who reached top 20 ! Irony is , Jacqueline has grabbed an A Level Bollywood Project Aladin starring Amitabh Bachan. She will soon become a household name . Infact , 2009 edition of Miss India saw Jacqueline feature everywhere. She was more of a Miss India rather than Miss Sri Lanka ! And Neha Kapoor ? Atleast before Miss India she had an illustrious Modelling career , Now not even that !



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2007



Oh Puja ! I had so much hopes from you ! Puja Gupta perhaps the most beautiful Miss India ever was cut to make it big in bollywood! God knows what went wrong, She just disappeared after her Miss Universe feat. Sarah and Pooja Chitgopekar , eh , the less said the better!
But another stunner was blatantly ignored by both the Miss India Organization and Miss International Organization later . She was Esha Gupta , Who was just a TOP 10 finalist !
Today Esha has been branded as the Angelina of the East. She is a top Super Model . Whereas the Winnners are nowhere to be seen !

At the age of 18, she told her father that she wanted to come to Mumbai to work. In 1998, she entered the Miss India contest without the knowledge of anyone in her family and was surprised to be short-listed and came to Mumbai to participate in the finals. Her father was astounded at her decision to enter the contest. No one believed she could make it to the finals. She borrowed Rs 2 lakh from her father on the condition that she would return it. She came to Mumbai and began preparations to enter the final of the contest with earnestness. She had her contest outfit designed and made by Manish Malhotra. She made it to the final round becoming one of the final five contestants.

Desperate to pay her loan back, she appeared for the Jet Airways hostess interview. Her sister, who also applied, got the job but Smriti was rejected. She then took a counter job at McDonalds, serving burgers and swabbing the floors and cleaning tables. Throughout these months of desperation, she kept visiting various agencies, doing auditions and portfolios and leaving her pictures at every TV production company. She was present in the Famous Studio in Mumbai for auditions every day but no one took her seriously.


Finally, lady luck began to shine on her. She was chosen to do the black and white commercial for Whisper. Next, she anchored a show called Filmi Batein for In Mumbai and Etc. channels. Shrey Guleri of Prime Channel saw these appearances on television and called her. As a result, she did some episodes of the show called Bakeman’s Oh La La. Shobha Kapoor in turn saw these and she asked her to meet Ekta at Balaji Telefilms. Smriti met Ekta and as time passed, thought nothing was coming through. But one day, she was asked to come over to audition for Tulsi’s role in KSBKBT she was chosen for this role and the rest, as they say, is history. After KSBKBT became the top soap in India, her career was made.

Smriti in Miss India 1998 (top 5)


Smriti Irani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Mother-in-law was once a daughter-in-law) is the biggest TV female star in India and has more fan following than any bollywood star. She has become the Ideal Wife that Indian Men desire. The show was the longest running show in Indian TV history which lasted for almost a decade.





Smriti with Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan