Sushmita Sen recalls her father’s unhappiness over her swimsuit at pageant and going for showbiz

Sushmita Sen recalls her father’s unhappiness over her swimsuit at pageant and going for showbiz

Sushmita Sen scripted history when she emerged as the first Indian to be crowned
Miss Universe in 1994.

Although, Sushmita has always spoken on how supportive her family was, in a recent interview, she opened up on how her father wasn’t speaking to her for participating in Miss India and for wearing a swimsuit for one of the rounds in the pageant. He was upset.

Talking to the media Sushmita said that she was all of 18 when her life transformed, and at that time around, her father wanted her to be an IAS officer and she was studying accordingly.

Sushmita added that when she entered the world of pageants, her father was quite concerned since she had not even finished her graduation. She never went to a college and graduate, which was a big problem for father because he always said, ‘Beta, do whatever, just have a degree.

Recalling the time she had an “emotional moment” with her father, Sushmita shared that he wasn’t too happy about the fact that she would be wearing a swimsuit on stage. She recollected having this very emotional moment with her father when she promised him, saying ‘Baba, she has to wear a swimsuit, it is a part of the show. But when she won Miss India and told her father that she will represent her country, that, for my father, being a defence person, he had balled his lungs out.

In 1994, the Miss Universe pageant was held in Manila,
The Philippines, and while her mother and brother had traveled with her, her father was in India and watched the show on television. Sushmita Sen said that he watched the delayed broadcast with the rest of the country .

News Edit K.V.Raman