Hyderabad, 17th February 2018: India's most exciting, glamorous and credible beauty pageant is here and commenced its talent hunt at the fbb / Big Bazaar store at Old Gold Spot Bldg, Ameerpet, Hyderabad. The auditions received an overwhelming response and large crowds cheered as more than 80 contestants participating from all parts of the state.
The auditions were judged by none other than Aadarsh Balakrishna, cricketer turned actor who rose to fame with Big Boss Telugu season 1, the famous Mister World 2016 Rohit Khandelwal and fbb Colors Femina Miss India Telangana 2017 Simran Choudhary. Continuing the same format this year, Miss India in its 55th edition will be touring to all 30 states (including Delhi) of the nation and to crown 30 state representatives who will then compete for the coveted Miss India crown. The top 3 of Telangana will proceed to the south zonal crowning ceremony to be held in Bengaluru at Hotel Oterra on 24th February, 2018. The store manager handed over a bouquet of flowers to the top 3 of Telangana. At Bengaluru, the most deserving candidate from each of the 5 states i.e. Miss India Kerala, Miss India Karnataka, Miss India Tamil Nadu, Miss India Andhra Pradesh, Miss India Telangana will represent their state at the grand finale which is going to be held in Mumbai in June.
For the second time, the pageant will host mentors for each zone who will guide the contestants to merit. To take charge of the proceeding for the South Zone we have none other than the South Siren and Bollywood actress who will be seen acting opposite Siddharth Malhotra in the movie Aiyaari, Rakul Preet Singh.
