The chosen one
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Meet Priyanka Shah, the Channel V's "Get Gorgeous 2" winner.
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GORGEOUS AND LUCKY Priyanka Shah from Pune.
Priyanka Shah talks about her many failures with such a relish that they sound like trophies. Tell her this and the 21-year-old would cackle, "Being a sportsperson, I am so used to failures in life.
Also because I wanted to make my mark in the modelling world, I have taken part in almost any beauty contest that has happened in and around my hometown, Pune for sometime now.
And everywhere, I have failed even to grab a consolation prize. I have somehow made peace with my mind."
Convincing her parents that she needs a last chance to try her luck in modelling, Priyanka joined the Channel V contest "Get Gorgeous 2" some time ago.
"And I got selected in the first round! I couldn't believe my ears. I still pinch myself to believe that I went on to win the title," says this tall and slim netball player with sparkling eyes and an equally bright teeth-y smile.
Her first modelling assignment after winning the "Get Goregous 2" title was the Lakme India Fashion Week-2005 besides walking the ramp for quite a few designers.
The crown has given her a two-year contract with the channel and Elite Model Management, which, by and by, not only passes on to her prestigious modelling assignments but those from the advertising world too. Priyanka would soon be seen in a new LG campaign too.
"It has been an awesome experience so far and I am looking forward to the future," she says on her visit to New Delhi the other day to take part in a fashion event.
24 km a day
Talking more about the contest preparations, Priyanka, an engineering student in Pune, says, "Once the contest judge Milind Soman told me, `you are good but you are slightly overweight. But I have promised the rest of the judges that you would lose some weight. Don't fail me.' That was the day, which decided my fate I guess, because from the next morning, I started working out. I walked 24 km every day. My waist, within a month, had reduced from 28 to 24 inches."
And now that she has won the title, Priyanka wants to complete her engineering course first (she is in the last year) and then get on to the field of entertainment with full steam.
"I will get into everything then. VJ-ing, acting, modelling... I haven't thought of limiting myself to anything," she declares.
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SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY
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