Shonal Rawat is an Indian former

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the Plan_(drawing), plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a mea ...

and

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. She won ''

Femina Miss India Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India that annually selects representatives to compete in Miss World, one of the Big Four major international beauty pageants. It is organised by '' Femina'', a women's magazine ...

'', 2003 and was subsequently sent to ''Miss Asia Pacific'', 2003. She anchors Zoom Network talk shows and is a VJ. She is best known for the music video,

Bindiya Chamkegi ''Bindiya Chamkegi'' is a 1984 Indian hindi film directed by Tarun Dutt, son of the veteran actor & director Guru Dutt. It stars Vinod Mehra, Rekha in lead roles, along with Amjad Khan, Johnny Walker in supporting roles. The music was composed ...

remixed by

Bally Sagoo Baljit Singh "Bally" Sagoo ( Punjabi: ਬਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੱਗੂ, born 19 May 1964) is a British-Indian record producer and DJ. Born in Delhi, India, Sagoo was raised in Birmingham, England. He entered the recording and enterta ...

Personal life

Her father is an

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...

officer and her mother has her own kindergarten in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

. Since her father was posted in

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

she had attended schooling in different parts of the states she done her matriculate from

Loreto House Loreto House was established in 1842 in Kolkata, by the Sisters of Loreto belonging to the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the oldest and the first Loreto institution to be established in India and was one of the few all-girls Catho ...

, and other from Ashok Hall. She married her boyfriend, Karan Vats in 2013.

Career

Modelling

She won

in 2003 and represented India at ''Miss Asia Pacific'' in that year and finished second at the 43rd Pageant in

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. In 2004, she appeared in the mega hit video Bindiya Chamkegi with

Upen Patel Upen Patel (born 16 August 1982) is a British actor and model. In addition to working in Hindi films, he has host several television reality shows including ''Bigg Boss 8'' and ''Nach Baliye 7''. He also hosted MTV Love School with Karishma Ta ...

. Subsequently she has been an active model, appearing in shows for ''Satya Paul''.

Television

Shonal Rawat has acted in Hindi comedy serial ''Aaj Ke Shriman Shrimati'' as a film actress Aishwarya Sen. She is all set to host

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's comedy-based reality show ''

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''. As the channel heads took a combined decision of not overexposing

Mona Singh Mona Singh (born 8 October 1981) is an Indian actress, dancer, model, comedian and television presenter. Having first gained prominence in 2000s for playing the eponymous heroine in the soap opera series ''Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin'' (2003–06), ...

to the reality show scenario, keeping in mind the to-be-launched reality show, ''The Extreme Makeover'', Shonal Rawat now takes over the anchoring responsibilities of Champion Chaalbaaz No. 1.

Filmography

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawat, Shonal Female models from Kolkata Femina Miss India winners Living people University of Calcutta alumni Year of birth missing (living people)