Miss India

Being an avid follower of beauty pageant I have been following the Femina Miss India for quite sometime now. Watch this year's pageant with avid interest seeing who would be chosen to represent India on the international stage. But Somehow what I found that competition lacked the what was seen in the past. I have seen Nafisa and Diana duke it out with each other, proving both had the intelligence and poise and what it took to be a Miss Inida. Seen Lymariana D'souza strut her stuff on stage with confidence (mind you she's not as beautiful as other) but boy did she have the confidence and something that made you want to root for her. Admired Lara when she won the crown because here was beauty with brains and poise and a voice to die for. All these contestant had the brains and the wits to answer question. Sadly over the years I don't think the contestant have the same potential in them. Though some of the past winner like Sindhura Gadhe, Ami Washi and Sarah Jane Dias showed promise with great stage presence and poise. I feel that the whole pageant has steeped too much into Bollywood with most of the panel of judges being from the film fraternity and most of the acts being that of Bollywood stars gyrating on stage. I remember when there used to have weird acts on stage but then they were what made the pageant stand out from every other award function. Gone are the international acts like Sonique and stuff. Even the opening acts were class and almost over shown the international pageant. But looking at this time pageant it seemed very awkward badly choreographed. Like last year only the winner Paravati managed to standout with her beauty and poise and wits.

Hopefully in the years to come the pageant improves it to its past glory rather than falling into mire it is currently .