Mangalore: 16 beautiful girls from all over India, competed for various titles, such as Miss Beautiful Face(or Skin or Hair or Eyes etc), in a pageant(show) held in Le Meridian Hotel of Kochi on Sunday, and Pegasus organised the event.
Vanishree Bhat(23) of Mangalore has won the Mannappuram Miss Queen of India title among them.
Among the judges were producers, directors (of films), models, actors and actresses.
Miss Bhat received Rs 2 lakhs as first prize, while Akhila Kishore(runner up) secured a diamond set(worth Rs 1 lakh), and Lakshmi Anand won Rs50,000.
Vanishree is a qualified financial analyst, a dancer, a fashion model walking the ramp, and a budding fiction writer. She created her own dress for the finals.