Miss India winners: 2009

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Ekta Chowdhary in swimsuit

Ekta Chowdhary

Pooja Chopra

Pooja Chopra

FMI South 11 finalists 2009

Romil Srivastava, Gwen Athaide and Deepa Chari

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Miss India winners:2009

Miss India Universe 2009 Ekta Chowdhary

Miss India World 2009 Pooja Chopra

Miss India Earth 2009 Shriya Kishore

Miss India International 2009 Harshita Saxena

Ekta Chowdhary

Miss India Universe 2009

This unconventional beauty represented India at the Miss Universe 2009 but could not make it to the semi-finals. She is the granddaughter of Delhi's first CM Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav. Ekta is a well-known model today.

Pooja Chopra

Pooja Chopra

Beauty With A Purpose (Miss World title 2009)

Miss India World 2009 Semifinalist [Top 16.]

4th in best sports woman – fast track event

beauty with purpose award – fast track event

Pooja also won Miss Beautiful Smile and Miss Beautiful Body title at the Miss India 2009 pageant. She represented India at the Miss World 2009 pageant and won the Beauty with a cause title. Pooja did a cameo in Madhur Bhandarkar's film Fashion. Another beauty from Pune, Pooja Chopra won Miss India in 2009.

Pooja Chopra is one of the latest fashion-to-Bollywood stories – her latest film being the lukewarm ‘Commando – A One Man Army’.

She went on to become a Semifinalist at the 2009 Miss World (where she won the Beauty With A Purpose, formerly known as Miss World Scholarship, award)

Pooja Chopra also won Miss Beautiful Smile and Miss Beautiful Body title at the Miss India 2009

Beauty With A Purpose (Miss World title 2009) Miss India World 2009: Pooja Chopra also won Miss Beautiful Smile and Miss Beautiful Body title at the Miss India 2009 pageant. She represented India at the Miss World 2009 pageant and won the Beauty with a cause title. Pooja did a cameo in Madhur Bhandarkar's film 'Fashion'.(Getty Images) (BCCL)

Shriya Kishore

Shriya Kishore

Shriya

Ekta Chowdhary

Shriya Kishore

Harshita Saxena

Miss India Earth 2009: Shriya has done her hotel management. She was a semifinalist in the Miss Earth 2009 pageant.

Miss India Earth 2009

Shriya has done her hotel management. She was a semifinalist in the Miss Earth 2009 pageant.

Harshita Saxena

Miss India International 2009

Harshita Saxena

She abandoned a BBA degree in Canada to pursue her Miss India dream, and represented India in Miss International 2009.

Miss India finals 2009: the swimwear round

See 13 photographs below

Aarohi Kadam

Akanksha Yadav

Aprajita Sharma

Deeksha Seth

Ekta Chaudhary

Faith Pandey

Hanika Paryani

Harshita Saxena

Ishita Sarkar

Karishma Karnik

Pooja Chopra

Sonakshi Sajnan

Tulip Bhattacharya

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