Sini Shetty from Karnataka has been crowned “Femina Miss World 2022” at Jio World Convention Centre. She will now represent India at prestigious 71st Miss world pageant.
This year there was diverse mix of contestants- a surgeon, a social activist and an environmentalist, among the contestants. The event opened with 30 finalists each representing their home state, winners taking the stage by storm in a desi cool avatar of shimmering lehengas teamed with sunglasses as they broke out into some serious hip swivels to the infectious rhythms of Bollywood.
Sini Shetty who called US new anti- abortion law “a case of gender inequality” and when quizzed whether abortion should be a woman’s right, said “a woman’s body is her choice”- was crowned Femina Miss India World 2022. The 21-year-old professional dancer was born in Mumbai and lives in Mangaluru.
Runners up were Rajasthan’s Rubal Shekhawat, who confessed “I come from a conservative society and following my passion for beauty and fashion wasn’t easy but I wanted to inspire other girls from my state to follow their dreams,” and Shinata Chauhan from Uttar Pradesh who challenged body shamers with her belief that “there’s no perfect body, what matters is a healthy body.”
Ash Chandler, actor, singer and comedian turned up the entertainment quotient with humour. Bollywood stars Kriti Sanon, Rajkumar Rao set the stage on fire by their performance. This year’s chapter was also about combining acts of goodness and pageantry with contestants joining environmentalist Afroz Shah in cleaning beaches of 1,000 kg of garbage.
