Vanya Mishra, a 19-year-old student from Chandigarh, Prachi Mishra, a 24-year-old investment advisor from Allahabad and 23-year-old TV anchor Rochelle Maria Rao from Chennai won the top honours at the Pantaloons Femina Miss India on Friday.
Vanya Mishra was crowned Miss India-World while Prachi will represent the Miss Earth competition and Rochelle Maria Rao will be India's girl at Miss International.
The event held in Mumbai featured prominent Bollywood stars including Sonam Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Tusshar Kapoor, Sonu Nigam and Ekta Kapoor among others.
Also performing on stage were Akshay Kumar, Ali Zafar and Nargis Fakhri even as Tusshar and Riteish promoted their film even as they ribbed the judges including Tusshar's sister Ekta.
When time came to select the top winner, the choice was made easy by Vanya Mishra when she was asked to pick between providing 1000 permanent jobs and feeding 1000 underprivileged kids. Mishra picked the latter and walked home with the crown.
Congratulations to all three winners who managed to win a difficult contest. Because of past winners (Sushmita, Aishwarya, Priyanka, Lara....) we have very high expectations from this beauty pageant. There is a remarkable story of how Rochelle Roa's brother, Noel Rohn Rao, received 11 gallantry medals from the United States Army. He died in 2006 on a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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