Miss India 2008

India has produced a lot of beauty queens in the past who have done the country proud- Rita Faria, Nafisa Ali, Zeenat Aman, Persis Khambatta, Madhu Sapre, Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra, Dia Mirza, Diana Hayden to name a few. Due to this reason, it was with bated breath that I was looking forward to Miss India 2008. However, the event, in my opinion, turned out to be quite a damp squib considering the number of dumb damsels who made it to the final 26! As all of you might have been aware by now, Parvathy Omanakuttan, Simran Kaur Mundi and Harshita Saxena were crowned Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India Earth respectively. What made the show a lackluster one was the fact that there was no real competition for the beauties who made it! Parvathy was a winner from the very beginning- she had a figure to die for, was smart, confident and comparatively better when it came to intelligence. Simran was strictly OK and the audience along with the judges was wondering who will make it to the third spot considering the number of dumb girls who were vying with each other. Thankfully for Harshitha she made it, but unfortunately she has had to surrender the crown following controversies regarding her agreement with another fashion business house!!! None of the other contestants were impressive except for the fact that all of them had that perfect hour glass figures and looked good in the creations of designers as varied as Shaina MC (she looked hot!), Romolika, Shanthanu and Nikhil (classy outfits) and the indefatigable Ritu Kumar! Bollywood was there expressing its solidarity to the contestants- Kareena, Bipasha and Sameera regaled the audience with their dance numbers! Sameera danced gracefully to Zeenat Aman’s songs from the 70’s and looked adequately hot! Tabu, Katrina Kaif and Zeenat Aman were the bollywood beauties judging the show along with J J Valaya, Rina Dhaka, Shaimak Davar and Arnab Goswami.

Parvathy Omanakuttan is promising, but except for her, Miss India 2008 was all about the three C’s- Clothes, Cleavage and Cinema (read Bollywood!)