Sushmita Sen rejoices 29 Years of her Miss Universe win
Sushmita Sen rejoices 29 Years
of her Miss Universe win
For Model-Actress Sushmita Sen, the day 21 May holds a discreet place in her life. It was on this day, she was crowned
Miss Universe. This dates back to 29 years ago.
On this Special Day and being Sunday early morning, the actor took to her Instagram account to pen down a heartfelt note on the special occasion and also shared a throwback picture captioning it “This picture is exactly 29 years old, shot by the epic man & photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta.
In the rawness of this picture, he beautifully captured an 18 year old me…with a smile he said, you realise you’re the first Miss Universe I’ve ever shot…I proudly added, it’s actually INDIA’s first ever Miss Universe.”
Sushmita, the beauty queen turned actor competed against contestants from 77 countries around the world and emerged as the first Indian woman to clinch the Miss Universe title in 1994. It was in the same year, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was crowned Miss World.
For Sushmita, the privilege of representing & winning for her Motherland is an honour so profound, it brings her tears of joy even today…29 years later!!! She celebrates & remembers this day with great pride as History bears witness, INDIA won Miss Universe for the first time ever on 21st May 1994 in Manila Philippines,” the caption further reads.
No sooner she dropped the post, fans swamped the comment section and dropped congratulatory messages for the actor.
Several fans dropped multiple red heart emoticons in the comment section.
She thanked all her fans and well wishers for the love, goodness, & the most beautiful messages…forever cherished!!!I love you guys!!!! the caption concluded.
Meanwhile on the work front, Sushmita will be next seen in ‘Aarya’ season 3 which will stream on the OTT platform Disney+ Hotstar.
Apart, she also has ‘Taali’ in her kitty which is based on the life of transgender Shreegauri Sawant. She was one of the petitioners in the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) case of 2013, in connection with which the Supreme Court recognised a transgender person as the third gender.
News input KV Raman
