Tapsee shares her ordeal as a Miss India contestant

Tapsee shared her ordeal as a Miss India contestant. Tapsee who shot to fame doing female-oriented films, and speaking to scribes shared her ordeal as a Miss India contestant. She said she participated in the Miss India contest in 2008 and recollecting her experience, she said  “Sach mat poocho. Jhoot main bol nahi sakti, aur sach shayad main bata naa paaun (Don’t ask me to tell you the truth. I can’t lie, but I can’t tell you exactly what happens either). But I’ll tell you what I can,”

Tapsee said much to her surprise she was selected and shared ‘Bhaagne ka option tha nahi’ She said she made it to the 28 top women and thought that she will be out of the top ten. She said she was only one of the two or three Delhi girls. She revealed  “I remember that all the other women were professional models,” Taapsee said  “I had only done photoshoots. I hadn’t done television commercials, I hadn’t walked the ramp, because those shows used to happen at night, and my father wouldn’t let me go.”

Taapsee revealed that she was humiliated in front of everybody else at the Miss India trials. She recollected “I realized during the ‘grooming period’ that this wasn’t something I could do. They’d make us walk, they taught us how to smile. Hemant Trivedi used to be the expert teacher at the time, and he humiliated me." She added "He said, ‘If it was in my hand, you would have never been in the top 28.'”

She shared “I knew that I was walking on thin ice because there was a lot of favoritism happening there. They were making people sign contracts that strictly stipulated that contestants would have to give 30% of all their earnings for three years to the pageant. When it was over, we went for an after-party, the national director was there, and he wished me good luck for the future very courteously. I don’t know what took over me, but I told him, ‘Sir, take it from me in writing, you’re not getting the crown back’.”It had been almost a decade since an Indian had won a global pageant, and Taapsee told the national director that India stood no chance. “I don’t know why I said that. But I got a gut feeling, and I did it,” she said.