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Get Gorgeous
''Get Gorgeous'' was an Indian reality television show and model talent search that premiered in 2004 by one of India's music channels, Channel V India. The show was formatted by Kaveri Mehrotra while Amar Deb was the head of the channel. Get Gorgeous was about discovering the next face of modeling in India. Seasons Get Gorgeous 1 The show's first season aired on July 1, 2004 with the finale on September 23, 2004. It had 6,000 entries received and 16 finalists were taken to the coast of Goa. The season was hosted by VJ Sarah-Jane Dias, with renowned fitness instructor Mickey Mehta, photographer Sameer Parekh, well-known choreographers Tanya LeFebvre and Aparna Behl, designer Aparna Chandra, make-up expert Ambika Pillai and Hemant Trivedi as judges. The show's prizes for this season include walking for designer Suneet Verma at Rome Fashion Week and a contract with Elite Model Management in India. The four winners were Aarohi Mishra, Archana Vijaya, Natasha Suri and Tanvi Singh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as ''The Real World'', then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series '' Survivor'', '' Idols'', and '' Big Brother'', all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen; this is most commonly seen in American reality television. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges, by the viewership of the show, or by the contestants themselves. Documentaries, television news, sports television, talk shows, and traditional game shows are generally not clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Maity
Iris Maity is an Indian model and actress. She participated in the reality show '' Bigg Boss Bangla 1'' in 2013. Early life After her graduation in science, she earned an MBA degree in marketing. She is a trained dancer, and can also sing and paint. Her father, Bhaskar Maity, is a football player, who represented India in the Asian Games, 1979. Her mother is a homemaker, and she also has a younger brother. Iris was crowned ''Get Gorgeous'' 2008. ''Get Gorgeous'' is Channel V India's launch pad for aspiring models across India. As winner of Channel V India's ''Get Gorgeous'' 5, Iris won contract with Channel V India and ICE Model Management. She also won Miss India Tourism Metropolitan in 2007. She was adjudged with the "I AM Photogenic" title at the I AM She 2010, the first Miss India Universe pageant, which was held on 28 May 2010 in Mumbai. She is also trained in Martial Arts. Career Iris is a model, and has appeared in a few Hindi films. She is the winner of Channel V Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India, as well as the largest city in South India, and the 27th largest city in the world. Located on the Deccan Plateau, at a height of over above sea level, Bangalore has a pleasant climate throughout the year, with its parks and green spaces earning it the reputation as the "Garden City" of India. Its elevation is the highest among the major cities of India. An aerospace, heavy engineering and electronics hub since the 1960s, Bangalore is widely regarded as the "Silicon Valley of India" because of its role as the nation's leading information technology (IT) exporter.——— In the Ease of Living Index 2020 (published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs), it was ranked the most livable Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elite Model Management
Elite Model Management (MM) refers to two independent chain modeling agencies that originated as one in Paris, France in 1972 with subsequent locations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London and Toronto. In 2004, the agencies in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Toronto separated forming Elite Model Management North America. Elite MM is a subsidiary of Elite World S.A., which main shareholder Silvio Scaglia controls his stake through managing company Elite World Group (EWG) where Elite MM is one of brands along with The Society Management (The Society), Women Management, Supreme Management, and Elite Model Look and Women 360 (W360) added in 2019. Although Elite Model Management North America and Elite World Group share the logo, they have separate ownership and are not part of a business network. History Early years Elite Model Management was founded in Paris in 1972 by John Casablancas (1942–2013) and Alain Kittler. Casablancas was inspired by his then-wife Jeanette Christia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambika Pillai
Ambika Pillai is a hair stylist and make-up artist from Kollam, Kerala, India. Her work regularly appears in advertising campaigns, catwalk shows, fashion films, and editorials. Personal life Ambika Pillai was born to a cashew exporter Gopinath Pillai & Santha Gopinath Pillai in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Her family then moved to her native place in Kollam, where she had a luxurious childhood, living in a bungalow by the backwaters of Kollam. After her boarding in Ooty, at the age of 7, she joined Mount Carmel Convent Anglo-Indian Girls High School in Kollam. She was married to Surenda Nath on 1980 at the age of 17 and moved to Calcutta to have a settled married life but things did not turn out the way she had desired and had to be satisfied with taking forward her life in a tiny one bed room apartment. They have one daughter, Kavitha. Later she married Rakesh (aka Rocky) in 1993 but due to his heavy drinking & gambling she left him. Her three sisters, Gopika, Renuka and Devik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sameer Parekh
Sameer Parekh ( hi, समीर परेख) is the founder of C2Net Software, Inc. While in high school in Libertyville, Illinois, he published an underground newspaper called ''The Free Journal'', promoting libertarian ideas. In 1993 Parekh moved to Berkeley, California, to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the cypherpunks. In his second year at Cal, he started C2Net, a privacy-oriented ISP which provided anonymous accounts and an anonymous remailer, and was the first home of the Anonymizer web surfing proxy. Through the mid- to late 1990s, Parekh was a frequently cited critic of U.S. policy on encryption software. The cover story for the September 1997 issue of ''Forbes'' focused on his views of the political and social impact of cryptography. Through C2Net, Parekh pioneered the offshore development of cryptography by U.S. companies to avoid U.S. regulation, and later helped organize the first global conference on financial cryptography in Anguilla. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Mehta
Mickey Mehta (born 29 August 1962) is a PIONEERING HOLISTIC HEALTH GURU and a Corporate/ Spiritual Coach from India has 53 years of personal yoga experience and a 42-year professional career in healing people worldwide using yoga , ayurveda and other traditional Indian healing methods. Objective: Start a wellness revolution for human evolution. Vision: Connecting with 8 billion hearts to make wellness the religion no. 1. Mission: To have a dis-ease free world. Mickey's Motto: Dr Mickey Mehta says, ''sleep every night with a wish to heal yourself and wake up every morning with a promise to heal the world''. Slogan: Get Naturalized, Get Energized, Get Mickeymized! Personal life Mickey Mehta is from a middle-class Parsi family. His father and mother worked as a banker and secretary respectively and resided at Grant Road, Mumbai. He graduated from Bhonsala Military School at Nashik, Maharashtra, India but he barely attended college. Career Dr Mickey Mehta an honorary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah-Jane Dias
Sarah-Jane Dias is an Indian actress, host, VJ and former beauty queen. She was the winner of Femina Miss India 2007 and was a VJ for Channel V. Early life Sarah-Jane Dias was born in Muscat, Oman. Her father, Eustace Dias, is a marketing manager with Oilfields Supply Centre and her mother is named Yolanda. She also has a sister named Elena Rose Dias. Dias attended Indian School Al Wadi Al Kabir until Grade 10, then she joined Indian School, Muscat doing her 11th and 12th. She then attended university at Mumbai's St. Andrews College. Prior to winning Miss India World title in 2007, she had won the Miss India Oman title in 1997. Career Modelling In Mumbai, Dias was discovered by Suresh Natrajan by chance when she walked onto his set and was immediately hired for the campaign he was shooting. At the age of 21, she won a talent hunt TV show, which gave her a chance to host a Channel V show. She then became the host of ''Get Gorgeous'', a supermodel hunt TV show on the netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of . According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in the Sanskrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samridh Bawa
Samridh Bawa is an Indian television actor. He is majorly known for his role of Leeladhar Chaturvedi in Life OK's ''Mere Rang Mein Rangne Waali'' and Karan Singh Chauhan in Colors TV's ''Ek Shringaar-Swabhiman'' and the role of Jigar in ''Balika Vadhu 2 ''Balika Vadhu 2'' ( 2) is an Indian dramatic television series that aired on Colors TV from 9 August 2021 to 25 February 2022 and on Voot from 28 February 2022 to 29 March 2022. It is a reboot of the long-running series ''Balika Vadhu''. Prod ...''. Filmography Television References Living people Year of birth uncertain 21st-century Indian male actors Indian male television actors Male actors from Delhi Indian male models Indian male soap opera actors 1990 births {{India-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asmita Sood
Asmita Sood (born 20 December 1989) is an Indian model and actress. She made her acting debut with the 2011 Telugu film ''Brammigadi Katha''. Sood has endorsed over 40 brands. She has been a part of two television shows: Star Plus's '' Phir Bhi Na Maane...Badtameez Dil'' and Sony TV's ''Dil Hi Toh Hai''. Early life Asmita Sood hails from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She is a commerce graduate. Career She is The Co-Founder of Off-Grid.Off-Grid is India's brand new techno music festival, a venture of actress Asmita and music enthusiast and lawyer Aman Lakhani. More than 600 revelers from across the country traveled to witness the music festival which was held at Kullu. Modeling career Sood started her modelling career towards the end of 2010 after participating in TV reality show Channel V's ''Get Gorgeous''. She later participated at the 2011 Femina Miss India beauty pageant, ending up as one of the finalists. She is a professionally trained Kathak dancer. Film career Sood m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankit Raj
Ankit Raj is an Indian television and film actor and model. He has played a variety of characters in different television shows like ''Qubool Hai'', ''Ishqbaaaz'' and ''Laado 2 – Veerpur Ki Mardaani''''. Career Raj has made his footprints in the fashion world by walking for leading designers such as Manish Malhotra, Rohit Bal, Troy Costa, Wendell Rodricks, Karan Johar, Varun Bahl, and Tarun Tahiliani to name a few. He has been the pool model for Van Heusen for two seasons and has been on the cover of Wills Fashion magazine 2009. Colotmate, Sprite, Honda Jazz, Yamaha FZ, Peter England, Reebok, World player shirts, Kaiser Josh are some of the brands that Raj have been associated with in his fashion career. In 2014, he played the role of Goldie in the film ''Karle Pyaar Karle''. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama, wrote of his performance "a few fill the bill Aham Sharma and Ankit Ra" Raj was felicitated at the Asia Model Festival 2015 for his contribution to the modelling in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
