After 17 long years, India gets a new Miss World. Manushi Chhillar won the coveted Miss World beauty pageant for the year 2017.
India's last Miss World winner was Priyanka Chopra who brought home the crown in the year 2000. Now after a long gap of 17 years, Manushi Chhillar has made the country proud. Around 108 women from across the world participated in the beauty pageant.
Manushi Chhillar, the 20-year-old beauty queen is from Haryana. This is what she said to the media before the competition, "Though I was a medical student, I never had a plan B. I don't want to regret anything in life, so it was really important for me to win this competition. My aim has always been to win the Miss World title."
Priyanka Chopra in her recent inter to a Bollywood media said there should be equality for women in the film industry and the filmmakers should give equal importance to female characters.
The actress said the next generation filmmakers should set the standard of gender equality in the films and if this happens, there would be quality in films. PCee also said, glamours and entertainment will not be the only take away for audiences in future, and there will be strong demand in character oriented films with a realistic feel, and the makers can only accomplish if there is no compromise and gender equality. Talking about this, the actress said she has also started to choose films which have equal importance and with no gender biased.