UK's First 'Miss Bollywood UK' Awards 2009
Celebrating & Empowering the Modern Woman
FINALS TAKING PLACE SATURDAY 29TH AUGUST 2009
Birmingham has been chosen as the platform to host the first ever Miss Bollywood UK Awards. The contest will be held on the evening of Saturday 29th August 2009 at the prestigious International Convention Centre (ICC), Birmingham. This promises to be a very high profile event with many A-list artists and VIP's attending.
Miss Bollywood UK will be recognised as the premier talent, style and fashion event for women of all back grounds; as such Miss Bollywood UK will be a vehicle for contestant’s personal development within the Film, Fashion and Beauty industry also in return giving something to the much needed and unfortunate individuals of this world. Miss Bollywood UK will be a high profiled event having a massive impact to the City of Birmingham
This will not just be another beauty contest but an evening of glamour which will host a range of performances on stage along with an amazing catwalk by the final 15 contestants. Miss Bollywood UK will receive extensively media attention all over the world as View Asia (Sony TV) will be broadcasting the event internationally as well as attracting the attention from the USA as the winner will also be competing for the Miss Universe 2010 title. The evening will run from 18.00 to around 22.45 followed by an after show party at Blue Mango for all event partners, sponsors, stars, judges and VIP guests.
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Miss Bollywood UK has seen 900 of applications from across the country coming from diverse backgrounds ageing from 18 to 27 year old and being a major success with support and backing from various institutes and organisations along with backing from leading film producers and directors in the Indian Film Industry.
Semi finals took place on Saturday 11th July at the Radisson SAS where 50 shortlisted contestants were interviewed and entered for screen tests, where the following 15 successful contestants were selected for the finals:
Kiran Myarr 19 Coventry
Natasha Khan 20 Middlesex
Amandeep Sahota 21 West Yorkshire
Stacey Fox 21 Essex
Saher Ahmed 18 Birmingham
Tanita Wahid 19 Birmingham
Kirsty Lo 24 Kidderminster
Natasha Mistry 19 Bedfordshire
Samera Bilal 22 West Yorkshire
Nisha Mavani 18 London
Ashley Mckeever 21 Lancashire
Kinjal Kansara 22 Warwickshire
Simran Chadha 19 Manchester
Saffiya Khan 20 West Sussex
Reena Patel 23 London
Miss Bollywood UK. The winner will:
- Automatically be entered into the, Miss Universe UK finals in May 2010
- Launched into a Bollywood Film to be named.
- 1 year modeling contract with a top modeling agency.
- Flown out to Mumbai, all expenses paid to see Film City, for a week
The Miss Bollywood UK is the concept of Zia Choudhury, MD of Exclusively Bollywood in partnership with Kully Kaur, CEO of Premier Consulting and was founded with the ideals of encouraging young women to build self confidence and esteem and polishing one’s personal appearance and presentation skills. All these skills and qualities are requisite for success in any lifetime endeavour. Miss Bollywood UK was developed to help women achieve these goals, which will in turn help launch their other dreams.
Zia Choudhury says, “This will be a diverse competition as applications will be accepted from all backgrounds providing you meet the set criteria. We will have people from the fashion industry and celebrities as the judging panel. The contestants will be judged on Best Smile, Best Talent, Best Hair, Best Catwalk, Best Personality and Miss Photogenic.”
Kully Kaur says, “The contestants will show by example that anyone can achieve anything that they set out to do with the right attitude. Emphasis is placed on the importance of gaining self-confidence, learning communication skills, setting and achieving personal goals. Miss Bollywood UK will be promoting diversity and is also a forum for these women to celebrate beauty, elegance and style.”
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