West Zone Winners are all set for the Grand finale in Mumbai

With the legacy of transforming lives of young talented women who have become icons in the glamour and fashion industry, fbb Colors Femina Miss India 2019 co-powered by Sephora & Rajnigandha Pearls vows to continue its tradition with an aim to extend whole-hearted support to the new generation women who have the potential to lead and represent the country in the future.  

With Six Miss Worlds who have made India proud by marking their presence on the global map- Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), YuktaMookhey (1999), Priyanka Chopra (2000) and more recently Manushi Chhillar Miss World (2017), who brought the coveted crown back home after 17 years - the hunt for the new crown bearer has now begun.

fbb Colors Femina Miss India West 2019 wrapped up with charm on 14^th April 2019 at the Hyatt Regency, Pune which played a perfect host as hospitality& venue partner.

The evening announced the winners of thefour states of the West Zone i.e.  Miss India Goa, Miss India Maharashtra, Miss India Rajasthan, Miss India Gujaratalong with Miss Jammu & Kashmir (from North Zone)who will represent their state at the Grand Finale which is going to be held in Mumbai on 15^th June.

Owing to the recent Pulwama attack in Jammu & Kashmir, the Top 3 finalists represented the State of Jammu & Kashmir at the West Zonal Crowning Ceremony.

West Zone Mentor Neha Dhupia was extremely happy that the deserving candidate will be representing their state at the grand finale. She enthusiastically quoted, “I started my journey with Miss India and since then it has been a never-ending relationship with the pageant. Every year I see a fresh lot of ambitious and enthusiastic girls with the dream to win the Miss India and make India proud at the prestigious Miss world. I’m looking forward to have Manushi’s successor this year.”

The West Zone Winners were :

The Judges for the evening were:

·         Neha Dhupia - Indian actress and beauty pageant winner who also won the 2002 Femina Miss India pageant.

·         Prathamesh Maulingkar - Mister Supranational 2018 - An Indian footballer and a beauty pageant title holder who won the title of Mister Supranational 2018. He plays as a Centre Back for Dempo in the I-League. Maulingkar is the only footballer in Asia to be featured on the cover of Men's Health magazine. He also works as a fitness trainer and owns a gym in the state of Goa.

·         Asha Bhat - Miss Supranational 2014 – An Indian model, engineer and beauty pageant titleholder from Karnataka. She won the Miss Supranational pageant of the year 2014 and became the first Indian to win the said pageant. Asha recently debuted in Junglee featuring Vidyut Jamwal and Pooja Sawant produced by Junglee Picture and Directed by Chuck Russell.

·         Samant Chauhan - A postgraduate diploma from New Delhi’s National Institute of Fashion Technology where he was also awarded the Best Design Collection and Most Innovative Fabric Development. For Chauhan, fashion is not just about popular trend, but a very basic form of representations that is always conceptual. He firmly believes in exploring his native Bhagalpur, still working with the weavers in innovating new fabrics and modern designs. His patent colours remain very earthy and his label SAMANT CHAUHAN has come a long way, selling at several high-profile stores across the world

·         Priya Bapat - An Indian actress who works in Hindi and Marathi films. She is best known for her roles in the movies Kaksparsh and AamhiDoghi, for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Screen Awards, and Happy Journey, for which she won the Best Actress at the Maharashtra State Awards. She was also nominated for Best Actress at the Marathi Filmfare Awards in 2014.

The girls had to go through 2 rigorous rounds which included: -

Round 1:

fbb Collection - About the collection: fbb presents the extremely sizzling collection – Summer Rave. In sync with the trends in this season for western wear, the styles have been inspired by beachwear and resortwear. The collection is teamed with exquisite Ceriz hand bags.

Round 2:

Samant Chauhan Collection – The light filtered and split by the magnificent broken glass windows I saw in Paris in a chapel on a cold January morning made me wonder about magic and truth, the crossover between the two and the eternal quest for beauty. Everything was chaos. They imagined a world with a prism. They wanted to understand darkness like Da Vinci who said the canvas should be painted dark because everything in the world is dark except when exposed to light. They wanted to tame light, to embolden it.The finalists wore an amazing range of exquisitely handcrafted collection of Diamonds from Senco Gold & Diamonds.

The finalists of fbb Colors Femina Miss India 2019 will undergo rigorous training and grooming sessions from the best experts in the industry before the Grand Finale on 15^th June 2019 at NSCI Dome, which will be aired on Colors.

With a dynamic and holistic approach towards coaching all the finalists, apart from the fame & glory the winners stand to chance to win prize in cash & kind to a crore and above.

fbb - Carrying forward the legacy, fbb - India's Fashion Hub has come together with Miss India Organization to look for India's next pride. The pageant is co-powered by Sephora & Rajnigandha Pearls.