Famous Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen has revealed that she was not ready to participate in the Miss India title in 1994 because of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Sushmita Sen’s old interview video is circulating on the social media website Reddit.
She can be seen in the video revealing that she was not ready to compete with the very beautiful Aishwarya hence she withdrew her form submitted for the ‘Miss India’ pageant.
She said that her mother first scolded her for doing so and then encouraged her to participate in beauty pageants.
He further said that on the encouragement of his mother, he went and submitted his form again for the beauty pageant the next day.
Sushmita Sen also revealed during this interview that apart from her, 25 other girls had also decided to withdraw from the competition because of Aishwarya.
The actress won the contest in a tie-breaker round in which she was asked about her personal preferences in clothing and her heritage of India’s textile industry.
Answering the questions asked in this round, he attributed the legacy of India’s textile industry to Mahatma Gandhi’s promotion of Khadi.
It should be noted that in 1994, Sushmita Sen also won the title of ‘Miss Universe’ and became the first Indian woman to win the international beauty pageant.
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