Wearing the Mrs India West 2017 crown, 30-year-old ravishing beauty, Anjali Raut Gill, has her eyes set on winning the Mrs India World pageant to be held in Chennai on July 4. Born to an Indian father from.
Hopping between Singapore, Mumbai and Chandigarh, Anjali, who has walked the ramp in ace fashion weeks like Lakme India, Wills Lifestyle, and was a top ten finalist in Miss India 2010, wants to make Chandigarh another hub for sending beauty queens to national and international pageants and ramp walks.
“In our Panchkula centre we are giving individual sessions to aspiring models. An all encompassing 5-10 days individual session may cost between Rs 40,000-50,000. We call the trainees at different times of the day for these sessions. We are able to do two batches a month – one in Chandigarh and one in Mumbai. For those who have it in them, but cannot afford to pay so much, we have two full days of group sessions for 20-25 trainees. We also have opportunities for those trained by us to be recruited as models,” Anjali said.
Bo and brought up in Mumbai, Anjali did her initial schooling from Bombay Cambridge, before relocating to Singapore for three years, where her father got posted. She participated in her first pageant, Miss Bombay, in 2006 when she was 17 years old and won the title. There on, studies and modelling went hand in hand. Channel V’s Get Gorgeous title in 2009 followed by a top 10 finish in 2010 edition of Miss India pageant took her to a high point of her career as a girl.
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In 2011 she got hitched by a Sikh ‘munda’ in Singapore, whom she met through a common friend, and now has a lovely three-year-old daughter, who has already walked the ramp with her as a show stopper. “I’ll let her decide what she wants to do when she grows up. It’s her individual choice,” Anjali said when asked if she would like her daughter to follow her footsteps.
Didn’t she ever think of joining movies? “I was never inclined towards movies. I am happy doing what I am passionate about, modelling and participating in beauty pageants,” she said.
Coming back to the Chandigarh market, she said “this is an untapped market. Mumbai is more evolved. There is raw talent here which needs to be groomed and polished. I would love to see more and more girls and women from here making it big nationally and internationally.”
She has a piece of advice for aspiring models. “Choose the pageants you want to participate in carefully. Preferably go for ones which progress to the international level if you are really ambitious and have the fire, passion in you.”
Here’s wishing all the very best to the Chandigarh ‘nuuh’ (daughter-in-law) !!