India at Big Four international beauty pageants

The following is a list of India's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won nine victories in among three of the Big Four pageants:

The criteria for the Big Four inclusion is based on specific standards such as the pageants global prominence and prestige approved by worldwide media, the quality and quantity of crowned delegates recognized by international franchisees and pageant aficionados, the winner's post pageant activities; the pageants longevity, consistency, and history; the sincerity of the pageant's specific cause, platform, and advocacy; the overall pre-pageant activities, production quality and global telecast; the enormity of internet traffic; and the extent of popularity amongst pageant fans across the globe.[1][2][3]

India's Big Four titleholders

India won its first Big Four major international pageant title when Reita Faria from India bagged the Miss World 1966 title becoming the first Asian to win.[4] In 1994, Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe[5] In the same year, Aishwarya Rai added to the winning streak, picking up the Miss World 1994 title.[6] Diana Hayden then won the Miss World title in 1997.[7] Actor and model Yukta Mookhey was later crowned Miss World 1999.[8]

Six years after Sushmita Sen’s win, three Indians made a total sweep in 2000: Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra and Dia Mirza went on to win Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific International (predecessor of Miss Earth pageant) titles respectively.[9][10]

In 2010, Nicole Faria from Bangalore became the first Indian woman to win the Miss Earth pageant and in 2017, Manushi Chhillar won the Miss World 2017 title.[11][12]

Color Key
  •      Ended as Runner-up
  •      Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
YEAR MISS UNIVERSE MISS WORLD MISS INTERNATIONAL MISS EARTH
2018 Nehal Chudasama
TBA		 Anukreethy Vas
TBA		 Tanishqa Bhosale
TBA		 Nishi Bhardwaj
TBA
2017 Shraddha Shashidhar Manushi Chhillar
WINNER 		Ankita Kumari Shaan Sumas Kumar
2016 Roshmitha Harimurthy Priyadarshini Chatterjee
Top 20		 Rewati Chetri Rashi Yadav
2015
 Urvashi Rautela Aditi Arya Supriya Aiman Aaital Khosla
2014 Noyonita Lodh
Top 15		 Koyal Rana
Top 10		 Jhataleka Malhotra Alankrita Sahai
2013 Manasi Moghe
Top 10		 Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Top 20		 Gurleen Grewal Sobhita Dhulipala
2012 Shilpa Singh
Top 16		 Vanya Mishra
Top 5		 Rochelle Maria Rao
Top 15		 Prachi Mishra
2011 Vasuki Sunkavalli Kanishtha Dhankhar
Top 31		 Ankita Shorey Hasleen Kaur
2010 Ushoshi Sengupta Manasvi Mamgai Neha Hinge
Top 15		 Nicole Faria
WINNER
2009 Ekta Chowdhary Pooja Chopra
Top 16		 Harshita Saxena Shriya Kishore
Top 16
2008 Simran Kaur Mundi Parvathy Omanakuttan
1st Runner-up		 Radha Brahmbhatt Tanvi Vyas
2007 Puja Gupta
Top 10		 Sarah Jane Dias Esha Gupta Pooja Chitgopekar
1st Runner-up
2006 Neha Kapur
Top 20		 Natasha Suri
Top 17		 Sonal Sehgal
Top 12		 Amruta Patki
1st Runner-up
2005 Amrita Thapar Sindhura Gadde
Top 15		 Vaishali Desai Niharika Singh
2004 Tanushree Dutta
Top 10		 Sayali Bhagat Mihika Verma
Top 15		 Jyoti Brahmin
Top 16
2003 Nikita Anand Ami Vashi
Top 5		 Shonali Nagrani
1st Runner-up		 Shweta Vijay
2002 Neha Dhupia
Top 10		 Shruti Sharma
Top 15		 Gauhar Khan Reshmi Ghosh
2001 Celina Jaitley
4th Runner-up		 Sara Corner Kanwal Toor
Top 15		 Shamita Singha
Top 10
2000 Lara Dutta
WINNER 		Priyanka Chopra
WINNER 		Gayatri Joshi
Top 15		 ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines)
1999 Gul Panag
Top 10		 Yukta Mookhey
WINNER 		Srikrupa Murali
1998 Lymaraina D'Souza
Top 10		 Annie Thomas Shwetha Jaishanker
2nd Runner-up
1997 Nafisa Joseph
Top 10		 Diana Hayden
WINNER 		Diya Abraham
1st Runner-up
1996 Sandhya Chib
Top 10		 Rani Jeyraj
3rd Runner-up		 Fleur Xavier
1995 Manpreet Brar
1st Runner-up		 Preeti Mankotia Priya Gill
1994 Sushmita Sen
WINNER 		Aishwarya Rai
WINNER 		Fransesca Hart
1993 Namrata Shirodkar
Top 6		 Karminder Kaur-Virk Pooja Batra
Top 15
1992 Madhu Sapre
2nd Runner-up		 Shyla Lopez Kamal Sandhu
1991 Christabelle Howie Ritu Singh
Top 10		 Preeti Mankotia
Top 15
1990 Suzanne Sablok
Top 10		 Naveeda Mehdi ×
1989 Dolly Minhas × ×
1988 × Anuradha Kottur Shikha Swaroop
1987 Priyadarshini Pradhan Manisha Kohli Erika Maria de Souza
Top 15
1986 Mehr Jessia Maureen Mary Lestourgeon Poonam Pahlet Gidwant
1985 Sonu Walia Sharon Mary Clarke Vinita Seshadri Vasan
1984 Juhi Chawla Suchita Kumar Nalanda Ravindra Bhandar
Top 15
1983 Rekha Hande Sweety Grewal Sahila Chadha
1982 Pamela Chaudry Singh Uttara Mhatre Kher Betty O'Connor
1981 Rachita Kumar Deepti Divakar Meenakshi Seshadri
1980 Sangeeta Bijlani Elizabeth Anita Reddi
Top 15		 Ulrika Karen Bredemeyer
1979 Swaroop Sampat Raina Winifred Mendonica Nita Pinto
1978 Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan Kalpana Iyer
Top 15		 Sabita Dhanrajgir
1977 Bineeta Bose Veena Prakash Joan Stephens
1976 Naina Sudhir Balsavar Naina Balsavar Nafisa Ali
2nd Runner-up
1975 Meenakshi Kurpad Anjana Sood
Top 15		 Indira Maria Bredemeyer
2nd Runner-up
1974 Shailini Bhavnath Dholakia
Top 12		 Kiran Dholakia Leslie Jean Hartnett
1973 Farzana Habib
Top 12		 × Lynette Williams
1972 Roopa Satyan
Top 12		 Malathi Basappa
4th Runner-up		 Indira Muthanna
1971 Raj Gill Prema Narayan Samita Mukherjee
1970 Veena Sajnani Heather Corinne Faville
Top 15		 Patricia D'Souza
Top 15
1969 Kavita Bhambhani Adina Shellim Wendy Leslie Vaz
1968 Anjum Mumtaz Barg Jane Coelho Sumita Sen
Top 15
1967 Nayyara Mirza × ×
1966 Yasmin Daji
3rd Runner-up		 Reita Faria
WINNER 		↑ No Pageant Held
1965 Persis Khambatta × ×
1964 Meher Castelino Mistri × ×
1963 × × ×
1962 × Ferial Karim
Top 15		 Sheila Chonkar
1961 × Veronica Leonora Torcato Diana Valentine
1960 × Iona Pinto Iona Pinto
1st Runner-up
1959 × Fleur Ezekiel ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan)
1958 × ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.)
1957 ×
1956 ×
1955 ×
1954 ×
1953 ×
1952 Indrani Rehman
1951 ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1952 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1960 in Florida, United States)


× Did not compete
↑ No pageant held

Name of Pageant Placements Best Result
Miss Universe 22 Winner (1994 • 2000)
Miss World 25 Winner (1966 • 1994 • 1997 • 1999 • 2000 • 2017)
Miss International 18 1st Runner-up (1960 • 1997 • 2003)
Miss Earth 6 Winner (2010)
Total 71 9 Winners

Hostings

Year pageant Location Venue
1996 Miss World Banglore M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ International Beauty Pageant Ranking
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ AFP (2017-11-19). "Manushi Chhillar's Miss World win draws India level with Venezuela with 6 titles". Livemint. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  5. ↑ "Video of Manushi Chillar's meeting Sushmita Sen goes viral". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  6. ↑ News, Times Now (17 November 2017). "This answer got Aishwarya Rai Bachchan the Miss World crown". Times Now. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "This touching answer by Manushi Chhillar ensured that Miss World 2017 crown was hers". Oneindia. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  8. ↑ "ABC's 'Nightline' mistakes Priyanka Chopra with Yukta Mookhey, furnishes apology on Twitter". The Indian Express. 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  9. ↑ "Beauty Queens, Then and Now: How Different Aishwarya, Sushmita, Priyanka Look". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  10. ↑ DNA, Chaya Unnikrishnan,. "Lara Dutta: after Priyanka Chopra, Dia Mirza and me there have been no international pageant winners". Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  11. ↑ Hindustan Times, Correspondent (1 December 2017). "Sushmita Sen bumped into Manushi Chhillar on a flight. Here's how the beauty queens bonded". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  12. ↑ "Miss India Nicole Faria is the new Miss Earth - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2017-12-11.

See also

Femina Miss India
I AM She – Miss Universe India

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