The Wadia group conducted the finale of the north India leg of its flagship pageant ‘Gladrags Bombay Dyeing Mrs. India North India’ and ‘Gladrags Go Air Megamodel Manhunt’ on Monday evening.
It’s a one of its kind platform for married women and wannabe models to showcase their beauty and modelling talent. On Monday evening in Chandigarh, ‘Gladrags Mrs India North India’ and ‘Gladrags Go Air Megamodel Manhunt’ found its winners.
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While Marisha Kaul won the ‘Gladrags Mrs India North India’ title, her contemporary Maninder Sandhu was adjudged second runners-up followed by Anmol Gill as the third runners-up. Saloni Aggarwal and Rishab Thakur bagged the titles of Megamodel and Manhunt North India respectively.
Organised by the Wadia group, the event was held at Hyatt Regency. The contest, which began in April saw the north India winners being chosen by Maureen Wadia, President, Gladrags Beauty Pageants and Editor of the Gladrags magazine. Also present was Glenn Maxwell, Kings XI Punjab captain and Shaun Marsh who conferred the awards to the winners.
For the unaware, Gladrags is the only brand that conducts the Megamodel Manhunt Contest, a unisex pageant in India. A 23-year-old brand which conducts unisex beauty pageant has four sub-categories wherein the contestants participate. The categories are: Gladrags Megamodel Manhunt, Little Miss and Master India Pageant, Mister India and Mrs India Pageant. Previous winners for the Megamodel Manhunt include Lisa Ray, Lara Dutta, Anchal Kumar, Kangana Ranaut, Mugdha Godse, Shweta Salve, Barkha Bisht, Mahima Chaudhary, Dino Morea, John Abraham, Sonu Sood, Karan Grover, Chetan Hansraj, Terrence Lewis, Vivian DeSena, Siddharth Shukla, Arjan Bajwa, to list a few.
This year Gladrags held selections in Mumbai and Chandigarh. The next round of selections would be held in Delhi. The winners of all these regional pageants will win a fast track entry into the All India Megamodel Manhunt TV series to be held in the next few months.
The Gladrags Mrs India contest is held every year and the past winners include Aditi Govitrikar, Jasmine Dsouza, Tania Soni, Naina Dhaliwal, Shilpa Reddy, Jimmy Nanda, Madhavi Awasthi, Shilpa Singh, Sophia Handa, Kavita Sachdev and Vaneeta Sabbarwal .
“We have been organising the pageant for 23 years and we are proud that Gladrags could significantly contribute to the India’s fashion and entertainment industry by identifying and grooming the talent nationwide,” spoke Wadia at the function that saw many rounds, including one in ethnic wear.
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