Femina Miss India 1993
18 contestants competed for the Femina Miss India 1993 title. It was the first time that Star Tv was telecasting the event live. Femina Miss India 1993 was a leap ahead of the 1992 edition with more sponsors, preliminary events etc.
Femina Miss India 1993
Winners
Femina Miss India I -Namrata Shirodkar
Finalist Miss Universe 1993, 1st Runner Up Miss Asia Pacific 1993
Femina Miss India II - Karminder Kaur
Best National Costume at Miss World 1993, Miss India Worldwide 1994, contestant at Femina Look of the year 1994
Femina Miss India III -Pooja Batra
Top 15 Miss International 1993, contestant at Femina Look of the year 1994
Rest of the Femina Miss India 1993 Contestants
• Kashmira Shah (Represented India at World Miss University 1993, Miss Talent at World Miss University 1993, Top 5 Miss Globe 1995, Best National Costume Miss Globe 1995, contestant at Femina Look of the year 1994
• Mehar Bhasin
• Maheep Sandhu (Kapoor)
• Roopa Saini ( contestant at Femina Miss India 1994)
• Rupali Ganguly
• Anurasha Kharb
• Geetika Matharu
• Jyutica Mehta
• Kavita Singh
• Monika Kohli
• Natasha Khanna
• Sanchita Tyagi
• Shalini Singh
• Shalu Wadhwa
• Tanaz Colabawala
Femina Miss India 1993 Sub Title Winners
Miss 10 - Mehar Bhasin
Miss Photogenic - Namrata Shirodkar
Miss Beautiful Hair - Mehar Bhasin
Miss Congeniality - Maheep Sandhu (Kapoor)
Interesting facts about Femina Miss
India 1993
• From this year the regional
pageants were scrapped. Femina did hold regional selection post 1993 when
necessary but the final
list of contestants had very little to do with the region they came from and
more with merit.
• Femina Miss India 1993 was
supposed to have a very high tech flavour with computer scoring and special
effects but with power outages and fluctuations, computers tripped and
calculations had to be done manually.
• Judges for the finals included
Dimple Kapadia, Vinod Khanna, Shobha De, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Bajaj, Dileep
Padgaonkar, Shahab Durazi and Sharon Prabhakar. For the first time the
contest had more than 5 judges.
• The event was compered by
Archana Puran Singh
• Karminder Kaur was eliminated in
the first round of the contest but was called back by the judges on
admission of an error. She went onto to capture 2nd place.
• In the entry form for Femina
Miss India 1993, the girl who place 3rd was to go to Mss Asia Pacific
however after the conclusion of the event it was announced that Pooja Batra
would go to Miss International.
• 1993 was also the first year
preliminary titles like Miss Photogenic, Miss 10 etc were given out.
• Meyhar Bhasin wasn’t happy with
the outcome of the contest and felt that Namrata Shirodkar had set her up as
she knew few of the judges (source Pride of India)
• Maheep Sandhu is now married to
actor Sanjay Kapoor
• Rupali Ganguly and Kashmeera
Shah were seen together at the Celebrity Big Boss (Big Brother) house as
contestants in 2006. While they did get along well initially they’re
friendship soured during the course of the show.