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Miss Chennai
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Miss Chennai is a popular beauty pageant contest organised by VIBA on behalf of Miss Chennai Foundation since 1999 in Chennai district, Tamil Nadu, India.
This is a list of winners of Miss Chennai contests.
| Year | Miss Chennai | 1st Runner-up | 2nd Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Deepika Vasudevan | Taruna Chugani | Bidushi |
| 2004 | Deepa Rajan | Ketki Chandravarkar | Pooja Priyanka |
| 2003 | Bindya | Nina Mehta | Aashritha |
| 2002 | Sitara Devanandan | Aparna Pillai | Sruthi Hari |
| 2001 | Anurithi Chikkerur | Ratikka Venugopal | Divya Subramanian |
| 2000 | Pooja Nair | Medha Raghunath | Divya Bhatnagar |
| 1999 | Trisha Krishnan | Maheshwari | Sandhya Prakash |
The finalists in Miss Chennai contest win a straight entry as the fashion ambassador of the city and country to the Miss Intercontinental, and other participants have the opportunity to be picked to represent India at the World Miss University as well as the Petite International. The participants in Miss Chennai contests are rigorously trained by a number of experts — a diction teacher, a fitness expert, professional models who teach them to catwalk and a dentist who perfect their smiles. They even have sessions on yoga and meditation.
The Miss Chennai contest is usually held in February each year and serves as a platform for the aspiring ladies to enter into the field of films, modelling, fashion designing and singing. The event has sixteen participants who will compete for the honour and goodies worth Rs.100,000. [1]