Before making her acting debut with Iruvar, Aishwarya Rai was already a known name within the entertainment industry. She was the primary runner-up at the Femina Miss India pageant in 1994, losing the crown to Sushmita Sen. However, she later won the Miss World crown that very same year.
But Aishwarya didn’t see the foremost positive signs round her when she was to participate in Miss World. In an old interview with BBC, Aishwarya had revealed the uncanny similarities that she saw between the 2 events, starting for the a lot of expectations placed on her.
She said, “Uh oh, the signs are the identical as Miss India, they were precisely the same. There was this whole level of expectations from me. Strangely and wonderfully, the identical thing happened at Miss World. while you go as an absolutely non-entity. nobody judges you there. you’re representing your country. Within that month, I had become very very fashionable and there was plenty of Indian-international press. Among the select few contestants, i used to be billed as a awfully strong contestant and therefore the possible winner. i believed this cannot be happening again to me. i do not quite just like the feel of it.” After she lost the Miss India crown to Sushmita, Aishwarya said that whole ‘tamasha’ was put up within the media, pitting the 2 against one another.
However, there have been some smaller signs too. “Just before I left for Miss India, the zipper on my final gown had broken. These are little things, not that i’m superstitious. So my zip had split and my gown was dropped there by the designer to Goa. the identical thing happened during Miss World, on the evening that i used to be flying out. it had been the ultimate trial, the zip split and it all had to be repaired. It came in later that it rained here, it rained there. i used to be like this is often ridiculous,” she added.
Aishwarya did find yourself winning Miss World and remains among the handful women from India who are honoured with the crown, including Yukta Mookey, Diana Hayden, Reita Faria, Manushi Chillar and Priyanka Chopra. That year, Sushmita Sen also won the Miss Universe crown during a double win for India.
