When a member of the jury thought that Priyanka Chopra was too dark to be crowned Miss India

In Priyanka Chopra: The Incredible Story of a Bollywood World Star, Pradeep Guha, one of the contest's mentors for this year's contest, remembers how a jury member was uncertain about it

Priyanka Chopra

The actor Priyanka Chopra was not the obvious choice for the Miss India title there is 18 years old as one of the jury members felt that his complexion was too dark. book about the star who turned 36 today. Then 17, Priyanka participated in the beauty contest of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and emerged as a finalist – Femina Miss India World 2000.

Lara Dutta was crowned Femina Miss India Universe, while second runner-up Dia Mirza has won the title Femina Miss India Asia Pacific. The three women then won the title in their respective categories – Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Asia-Pacific.

In "Chopra riyanka: The incredible story of a world star of Bollywood, Pradeep Guha, one of the mentors of this year's contest participants will remember that one Jury members were uncertain about Priyanka. "Everyone was not in agreement with the jury.A person mentioned that it was too dark," he recalls, without Name the Jury Member

"I said," Yaar, come on, look at the South American girls.They keep winning and some of them are pretty dark like all the African girls. So I said what are you talking about? "I've always been very sure of her and as I said, this woman never cheated twice" , Guha tells in the biography of Aseem Chhabra

The competitors face a series of famous judges – actors Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Waheeda Rehman, Mohammed Azharuddin cricket , the media mogul and film producer Pritish Nandy, the painter Anjolie Ela Menon, the founder of Zee Media (and now Rajya Sabha MP) Subhash Chandra, the fashion designer and queen of perfume Carolina Herrera and Marcus Swarovski, l 39 a great-great-nephew of the founder of the Austrian Crystal Society.

"She's always improved on herself day after day, day after day." I knew she would give 200% if she came in, "says Guha in Rupa Publications' book He says that he was impressed by Priyanka from the beginning, but for some reason, she did not appear as the obvious choice, although she

"I think she's needed a little more confidence. I think she was not quite sure initially if that was what she wanted to do. She came a little timidly. By the time the contest started, she seemed much more collected and certainly more confident in herself.
Part of the reason why Priyanka felt uncertain was because she was a stranger, compared to other competitors, including Lara. Another mentor, Sathya Saran, says that she remembers Priyanka because they did not notice her at the beginning: "I noticed her at the Talent Contest because she did not notice it. she sang beautifully. I told Pradeep that she was going to win something, "said Saran, when the results were announced, there was a tie between top competitors Priyanka and Lara Guha and Saran had experienced a situation similar to Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai in 1994. 19659005] "This time, they were better prepared and additional questions were asked in Priyanka and Lara.The final results were a surprise to no one. Tony Lara Dutta won the Miss India title, "says the book.

Lara and Priyanka worked together in one of their first Andaz films alongside Akshay Kumar in 2003.

Priyanka has managed to carve an international career and is now one of the Indian faces the more recognizable working in Hollywood.
The actor, in past interviews, talked about problems with his complexion even within his Punjabi family.

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