Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Coimbatore
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kochi
Pretty Paro
|
People Miss India World Parvathy Omanakkuttan smashes the cliché of beauty without brains
|
Photo: S Gopakumar
Eyeing the crown Parvathy Omanakkuttan: ‘I do not have a single or a particular role model’
Parvathy Omanakuttan 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 pro
ud.”
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 most logical thing to do. “Kerala is my home, I was born here and I keep returning home. I love the temples in Kerala,” says Parvathy.
She smashes to smithereens the cliché about beauty without brains.
Parvathy’s common sense is what strikes you first as she begins talking. She belongs to the 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.”
For Parvathy, this win has been a dream come true, a dream that she has been carrying with her ever since she was a little girl. “I started watching the contests the year that Sushmita and Aiswarya won their respective crowns. I have always wanted to be a Miss India, period. This is what I have always wanted to be.”
Parvathy has just completed her degree in English Literature from Mithibai College, Mumbai. Making long term plans are just not part of Parvathy’s 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
Printer friendly
page
Send this article to Friends by
E-Mail
Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
Coimbatore
Delhi
Hyderabad
Kochi
|
