Aishwarya Rai

Miss India !! When we think of this title, we think of beautiful talented women. Winning a Miss India contest is probably the best possible ticket to Bollywood if you do not belong to a Bollywood family. In this brief article we take a look at the celebrities Miss India contest contributed to Bollywood.

If we go through the list, the first Miss India to make a mark in the entertainment world was Persis Khambatta ( Miss India 1965). Persis starred in the highly popular series, “Star Trek” and Newsweek called her the Sophia Lauren of India. In 1979, Swaroop Sampat won the covetted title.

Swaroop was the lead in the TV comedy Yeh Jo Hain Zindagi and went on to marry the comedy king Paresh Rawal. The next year, 1980 it was time for Sangeeta Bijlani who starred in a number of Bollywood movies and married cricketer Azharuddin, an affair which created quite a storm. Pamela, Miss India 1982 was more of a celebrity for wrong reasons.

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