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It’s the out-of-the-box thoughts that Miss India World, Parvathy Omanakkuttan expressed that impressed
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Photo: S. Gopakumar
Eyeing the crown Parvathy Omanakuttan
Parvathy Omanakuttan is our (Keralites) next claim to fame. She is the first Malayali to wear ‘the crown’ of Miss India World 2008. Sounding very tired, in a telephonic interview, she says, “this trip to Kerala has been more hectic
than Mumbai. I am proud to have made fellow Malayalis proud.”
And it is surprising that she has rushed to Kerala barely two weeks into her tenure as Miss India World 2008. Kerala is home, and she makes it sound like it was the logical thing to do. “Kerala is my home, I was born here and I keep coming here quite often. I visit the temples here,” says Parvathy.
Common sense rules
She smashes to smithereens the cliché about beauty without brains. Parvathy’s common sense is what strikes you first as she begins talking. All of 20, she belongs to that generation that grew up watching Sushmita Sen and Aiswarya Rai. Before you begin wondering if the above mentioned ladies are her role models, she says, “I do not have a single or a particular role model. You cannot have a single person as your role model, nobody is perfect. But you can draw certain things from people. If I admire one thing in a particular person there would be 10 people who would have a problem with other things in that particular person.”
Parvathy has won quite a few beauty contests. She won the Malayali Manka contest on Sensations, Surya TV. She was also the Navy Queen (Kochi) 2006. This win has been a dream come true, a dream that she has been carrying with her ever since she was a tiny girl.
“The year that Sushmita and Aiswarya won their respective crowns was when I started watching the contests. I have always wanted to be a Miss India, period. This is what I have always wanted to be,” she says.
Parvathy has just completed her graduation in English Literature from Mithibai College, Mumbai. She speaks Malayalam pretty well. For this Malayali at heart and Mumbaikar in living, making long-term plans are just not part of her scheme of things. Right now she is focussed on being crowned Miss World. “I do not believe in making long-term plans. I believe that everything just falls into place. You never know what life has in store for you. There is no point trying to focus on 10 things at the same time. The results will then be affected and you will not be able to perform up to your potential.” For a 20 year-old Parvathy has it all sorted and figured out.
For now, Parvathy is busy attending felicitation meets in cities and villages in Kerala. At Thricodithanam village in Changanacherry, she was given a reception in the school where her mother studied as a little girl.
Several Miss Indias have been known to disparage Bollywood not Parvathy.
Although she is not thinking of anything beyond the Miss World contest, she says she is open to films, Malayalam and others but those again would have to wait. “Everything after Miss World.”
SHILPA NAIR ANAND
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