Miss and Mr. FlashBack 2006 extravaganza of its own kind, held at Gymkhana Hall, Darjeeling, on 10 September. Enthusiastic young 24 contestants, locals and from neighboring regions participated in the show. The Show was organised by FlashBack
Miss Darjeeling is an annual district level beauty contest, which is consecutively being held for the third time since 2004.
The main Miss Darjeeling Pageant, was held over a two weeks period. the pageant was a week-long extravaganza. Allowing time for rehearsals, appearances and the preliminary competition, with the winner being crowned by the previous year's titleholder during the final competition.
Participants from Assam, Bhutan and Sikkim
According to the organisers, the Miss Darjeeling contest is more than a beauty pageant: women who aspire to become Miss Darjeeling must be intelligent, well-mannered and cultured. Often a candidate has lost because she did not have a good answer during the interview rounds; although this section of competition has held less importance during recent pageants than it did in the twentieth century.
The Jugdes for Preliminary Round were:
Mr. Sid Agrawal,
Mr. Darpan Rai,
Mr. Mukesh Singh,
Mrs Nirmala Pradhan,
Mr. Phurba Lepcha and
Mr. Prem Gupta
The Judges for main event :
Mrs Shikha Ghising
Mrs P. sen
Mrs Neemi Oberoi
Mr Yogdeep Gurung
Mr Milan Rai
All the contestants competed in a preliminary round of judging, called the "Presentation Show", where the field is narrowed to a select number of semi-finalists. The contestants also competed in a preliminary interview round in a one-on-one meeting with each individual judge.
Ten semi-finalists were announced. After that round of competition, the final five were announced; a final question was posed to the last five contestants. The final question was an on-and-off feature of the pageant, with the finalists competing in the "final question" or interview round.
At the end of competition the runners-up were announced as:
Miss FlashBack - Ms kamala Chettri, Darjeeling
1st runner up - Priyanka Garg, Darjeeling
2nd runner up - Paspsha Pradhan, Darjeeling
Mr FlashBack - Bivek Prasad, Darjeeling
1st runner up - Sumit Basundhara, Assam
2nd runner up - Sonam Tobgay, Bhutan
And the winner Ms Kamala Chettri crowned by the outgoing queen Ms Rohina Chettri.
Miss FlashBack 2006, Interviews being taken by local News Corespondents
Miss FlashBack would like to prove that Models are also good at characters as negative opinions of our society towards Models. ‘We have also equal moral and social responsibilities’, affirmed Miss Flashback.
In fact, she has already participated in various Social activities with the NGO’s social group. She is very much interested to join hands with social groups for the welfare of Society.
(Posted by shikha, July 14, 2009, 3:59 PM)