Miss India winners: 1993

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Miss India winners: 1993

Miss India 1993: Namrata Shirodkar

Miss India World - Karminder Kaur

Miss India International - Pooja Batra, semi finalist at Miss International

Namrata Shirodkar

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Miss India 1993: Namrata Shirodkar had support of her sister Shilpa, who's is a celebrated actress in Bollywood. Namrata did many films and is now married to Mahesh Babu, a Telugu actor.

Namrata Shirodkar was crowned Miss India in the year 1993. She represented India in the Miss Universe pageant and finished fifth. She then featured in the Bollywood film 'Hero Hindustani' where she was the lead actress opposite Arshad Warsi.

Miss India - Namrata Shirodkar, Semi Finalist/ fourth place at Miss Universe

Another model-turned-actress, Namrata had support of her sister Shilpa, who's is a celebrated actress in Bollywood. Namrata did many films and is now married to Mahesh Babu, a Telugu actor. She resides in Hyderabad with her husband now.

Karminder Kaur

Miss India World - Karminder Kaur

Best National Costume Award 1993

Pooja Batra

Miss India International - Pooja Batra, semi finalist at Miss International

Miss India World 1993 Pooja Batra first appearance in a film was for the item number “Shock Adikuthu Sona” in ‘Aasai’. Then after doing a few films including the ‘Virasat’ Pooja Batra returned to Tamil with ‘Oruvan’ opposite Sarath Kumar in 1999. But the beauty is best known for her cameo in ‘Kandukonden Kandukonden’ dancing with Ajith singing ‘Smaiyai Smaiyai’ on the deck.

Pooja took up Bollywood after winning Miss India. Who can miss Anil Kapoor's stunning city-bred girlfriend in the film Virasat or the `Head & Shoulders' advertisement that is flashed on television so often. Today, Pooja devotes her time in doing meaningful roles and good films.

She got married to a US based doctor, Sonu Ahluwalia and shifted base. The actress has a Filmfare award in her kitty and runs her own casting agency today.

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