We could offer several pretentious reasons why this poster for the upcoming romantic-comedy Love Khichdi appears here out of the blue.
1) Because writer-director Srinivas Bhashyam is namma huduga, a Bangalorean, who has worked with Mani Ratnam and Kamal Hassan, and has written a piece or three for churumuri.
2) Because, with seven ravishing heroines in his second Hindi film, paapa, namma huduga must have had to work so hard, that he needs all the moral support he can get ahead of the movie’s release.
3) Because T.B. Srinivas, as the world knew him before he became Srinivas Bhashyam, has written the story and screenplay with namma huduga Manu Joseph, the former Outlook magazine journalist.
But the real reason we are using this poster here is because it gives us a pretext to talk of the lady on the left of the frame, kneeling on the ground, in the black suit.
In Love Khichdi, she answers to the name of Nafisa Khan.
In life khichdi, she answers to the name of Kalpana Pandit.
Kalpana Pandit is daughter of Dr B.V. Rajagopal, the Mysore cardiologist who belongs to the B.V. Pandit family of Nanjangud hallu pudi fame. Her uncle B.V. Sreekantan is “a distinguished high energy astrophysicist“.
Kalpana, who studied at Marimallappa’s School and College, and did her medicine at the Mysore Medical College (MMC) is a doctor, too, as is her brother Sandeep Raj Pandit and sister Lakshmi Pandit.
But Kalpana’s career is eerily, freakily different from the average doctor’s.
# The ravishing beauty from 1st main road, Yadavagiri, won the “Miss USA” contest among NRIs.
# She took a break as an emergency medicine physician in Arizona to star in M.F. Husain‘s Gajagamini.
# She did a bikini item song in Padmashree Laloo Yadav.
# She rubs shoulders with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lopez.
# She wows the paparazzi at the premiere of Quantum of Solace with assets disproportionate to her known sources of income.
# And, on her website, she shames classmates by posing next to Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine and Danny de Vito.
Our unimpeachable Bollywood correspondent writes:
“With her large frame and fair complexion, and the Pandit surname, she is predictably mistaken for a North Indian everywhere. But she’s a proud Kannadiga and we used to banter in Kannada during the shoot much to the puzzlement of all around here.”
And she puts up pictures like these on her website for the salivating masses. There’s a hint of desperation, of course, but kee farak painda when there’s an MD after your name?
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Love Khichdi Poster: courtesy Srinivas Bhashyam (clockwise from bottom left, Kalpana Pandit, Divya Datta, Rituparna Sengupta, Jessy Randhawa, Sada, Riya Sen, and Sonali Kulkarni, with Randeep Hooda)
Photo mosaic: courtesy Ashish Bagchi
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Also read: Once upon a time, eating Nanjangud hallu pudi
21st century spectacle at 17th century structure
Who killed our divine Nanjangud rasa baale
Lakshmi Pandit….It rings some bell. Was this the same girl who wrongly declared her marital status during a beauty contest in the past???
looks like the sisters are back in news again. here is a re-post of one of my previous posts in churmui:
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I remember the time when lakshmi pandit won the Miss India crown and had to give it back within days when it was discovered that she was “married”. the same thing had happened to her elder sister kalpana Pandit who won the Miss India crown and had to return it back since she was holding an American passport and was no longer an Indian citizen. who are Kalpana and Lakshmi? the granddaughters of B.V.Pandit.
I stay very close to their house in V.V.Mohalla in Mysore. I used to see Lakshmi run around on her Luna Super. Quite and ordinary and quite girl. No one seemed to think she was Miss India material, back then. Kalpana, by then had left Mysore for greener pastures. Both their parents are doctors. These 2 girls had a cousin sister who was my senior in Mahajana College in JL Puram, by name of Asha – who many will recognize by her non-de-plume – ” CHADDI ASHA”. Of course the “CHAADDI” was courtesy of her penchant for appearing in public in blue shorts, every now and then. Wonder what Asha is upto nowadays !!
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Some more info:-
Kalpana Pandit was Miss.India for 1 day. They kicked her out when they got to know that she was holding an American passport. Her sister Lakshmi Pandit also was kicked out after winning the Miss.India contest. The reason being that Lakshmi was living in with her boyfriend -Siddarth Mishra. Though not married, her living-in was not taken lightly as Miss.Indias’ are expected to be role models. Strange case of 2 sisters losing the same crown. Has not happened anywhere else in the world.
their story is all over the net:
http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/44159/
From where to where….B V Pandit and Sadvaidyashala was once reputed household names in the Karnataka…look at the grand daughters and their acts…BVP must be rolling in his grave :(
Like Churmuri says Ki Fark Painda….
Yarigu hallu illa! So HalliGAY hallu pudi beda! Probably now they use NGHP as beautifying agent for their body!
Now, now – was this srinivas the same guy who directed Shanti, Shanti, Shanti in kannada 8-10 years back. if so, why not mention it in the article. Ashamed of sayng that he directed a kannada film or what? Well, it had madhavan, a bangalore boy successful in tamil, prakash rai, etc in the movie – so other tamil connections as well to add apart from kamal and manirathnam. went to see the movie with great expectations after all the hype – but turned out to be juvenile and a major disappoitnment.
Anyway, he attempted something different. So, anybody need not be ashamed. And the music was good – by namma huduga sandeep chowta.
I wonder if it is a case of ignorance, shame on the part of this writer to associate him with the move or on the part of the director to be associated with the movie he made any longer.
Kalpana Pandit, it seems won the Ms. India crown in 1989 almost 20 years back.
Does that mean she is around 38-40 years now!>!?!?!!?
Doesn’t look like that!
Lovely Kalpana Pandit!
Instead of posting these kind of beauties why did the editors post that ‘kitthogiro piece-oo’ Padmalaxmi anthe! Thoo nimma!
Ree Madan! Swalpa aache banni…don’t be scared.
That ‘Love Khichdi’ poster is really badly photoshopped :-)
Madan
Nimig yaake ashtu hotte kichchu? The girls are smart, beautiful and successful. Be happy for these good Mysoreans.
Sakath story/photos churumuri.
Any chance Radhika Pandit is from the same family ?
It is truly unfortunate that Femina folks can’t distinguish between what is right and wrong.
If a girl was born in US, because her parents were in US at the time of birth, and was thus a US citizen, but was brought up in India all her life and Happens to be elligible for what we now call a PIO, why they should make that a reason to deny her a Miss India. Atleast now they should allow such girls to compete and win, as globalization has come to mean, citizenship and belonging to a nation are two seperate things.
And Laxmi Pandit?? That’s hilarious! Femina wants strong women, who think different and act with confidence, and when someone did – they snatched her crown…
Simple: Yes Kalpana was in her 3rd year medical when she won the Miss India, it was a big news – a friend was her classmate and she was apparently a very nice girl. So, she must be around 40 now.
Mayura: Yake swamy? Both these girls are high achievers, in both academics and in other fields. They were brought up by their parents to be strong individuals and they do what they like? Why should Sr. Pandit be ashamed or turn in his grave? In any case, Pandit’s being brahmins wouldn’t have been buried. :-)
Nimmajja, Nannajja, Muttajja would all have been very upset if our children wore jeans and went to college.. That doesn’t mean that is wrong.
@Madan
me still thinks Dr. LrP was/is better looking than Dr. KrP (MD?)
LrP sat next to me for three year (…yeah yeah…I am a complete loser). LrP was nothing more than a bombe ( a doll). But I still cannot figure out why she lied about her age. She was an awesome bharatanatyam artist and a topper in marimallapas.
There I sat watching tele at 26, and this babe goes live claiming to be 24 and being crowned miss whatever.
I met with my father and younger sister ( she and I were about 9 and 11 then) the great BV pandit I guess in 1950s at his Sadvaidyasala , Nanjangud. My younger sister had a polio -like symptom which meant her legs were unusable and the Western medicines did not help. I had a stomach problem which was baffling our doctor in Mysore. My father knew BVP and we saw him in the morning after he finished his pooja and radiated veneration with his vibuti and rudrakshi chain. He cured my sister’s problem and gave assurance that mine was not serious. He was very religious, pious person and was very soft spoken. Later in life one of my students introduced his son the doctor once and I was slightly taken aback by his demeanour so different from his father. That was 1960s. But then it was a different setting.
I live in the West and recognise the changed settings. She has to dress and behave in a way that makes her integrate with the Western society that she lives in, in a similar way that our wives are expected to do in the Western Society we live. I do not want to be judgemental. She must be a smart person and that is what counts. But looking at her photographs, my mind wandered back into the memory lane and the sight of that elderly venerable Pandit produced a strange feeling momentarily. Even then BVP must have been a forward-looking person, he did send his son to Mysore to study Western medicine. Good luck to her and I am not exercised about her passport . My passport is now not-indian but beside that I feel every inch a Kannadiga.
ree Anonymous,
I never said that these girls are not smart, beautiful or successful. my point is that they both were disqualified based on technicalities. How can you ask me or anyone else to be happy for these 2 girls who spoiled my city’s name?
doddi,
yen ree samachara, heli yellige barabeku? :) . and i am not scared, dont worry.
Why are some folks getting confused between getting an education and shedding it?
If these women want to pose nude for the pleasure of seekers, they should be termed appropriately. Bimbettes, whores (why not?) Etc. Not achievers, learned, forward looking etc.
Please remember every age has had it’s educated and forward lookers and it’s whores. But this “modern” age seems to be the only one mixing up the two streams.
What’s up with the organisers of these shows? They don’t do sense checks on contestents or are all these also publicity stunts?
They must have categories and parameters to qualify. If they do have these then in addition to being whores, these women are liars too!
Some education!
Lakshmi Pandit was a classmate of a friend in JSS Medical College, who in turn was my classmate in PU.
There, that is my tenuous relationship (I wish) with the lady, who isn’t quite.
@Arun:
A lot of people were surprised when Lakshmi won and also were disappointed when she got disqualified just days later.
Even though she had completed MBBS at that time, she put down her age as 24. she needed to be younger than the maximum age for the contest, so that was why she lied about her age and maintained that she was an amateur sketch artist from Mumbai.
Lakshmi was very determined about winning the Miss India crown as she felt it was unfairly taken away from her sister – who in her opinion was just as Indian as any one else.
She entered the Miss India contest twice. The 1st time she did not reach the finals. The 2nd time she won and got disqualified. Poor girl was heartbroken but took it on the chin.
Bad luck that it happened to Kalpana. but same thing happening to Lakshmi is too much of a coincidence.
I do recall hearing what Lakshmi commented after all the controversy had died down – that if the contest organizers had investigated every contestant, then more than half the girls would have been disqualified.
Her take was that the organizers knew that there were technical issues with a lot of the contestants, but turned a blind eye in the beginning.
Then when the shit hit the fan and the organizers got to know that Lakshmi was married [ even if it was just on paper], they told Lakshmi that they were going to announce that she had lied to them and they would take away the crown. But Lakshmi stood her ground and asked the organizers to prove that she was really married and also to check the credentials of other contestants – so that they would see for themselves how other girls also have cheated in order to take part in the contest – Then that the organizers decided to sweep all the dirt under the carpet and compromised by agreeing to give Lakshmi a way out to save face by letting her announce that she herself was giving up the crown voluntarily. They did this because they knew that if any more skeletons came out at that time, the reputation of the Miss India contest would suffer and hence they were also interested in putting an end to all the controversy.
Coincidently the girl who moved up because Lakshmi got disqualified -Sayali Bhagat, was a classmate of my colleague in Mumbai during his high school days. when Sayali’s topic came up at the water cooler, he was telling me that she was so ordinary looking & shy in school and that no one expected her to win any beauty contest. It was deja vu all over again.
DB,
Hushaaragiri, Madan seems to be an internet badass!
I completely second Anonymous Guy on this.
What could be anybody’s complaint against this complete, homegrown package of beauty and brains?
By talking about the pictures (as churumuri does), and by branding them whores and bimbettes (as Watching does) we only reveal our innermost male biases and prejudices on what we expect our women to be and what we expect them to do and how they should behave in public.
Kalpana Pandit comes from a pedigreed family. If I am not mistaken, she had a spotless academic life and was a top-ranker in both the SSLC and PUC exams. She fared brilliantly in her MBBS too, went abroad, set up a flourishing practice. She returns now and then to fulfill her Bollywood commitments, and rubs shoulders with the bold and beautiful.
What we are looking at, therefore, is not your usual Kannadiga: she is ambitious, she has lots of drive, she is in your eye, and she is capable of getting it on her own terms. More power to her and her ilk for ducking the stereotype of the Indian female.
Whether you talk of this person as a bimbette or as a person from a pedigreed family; whether you commend her on her adademic credentials or criticise her ‘ Bollywood’ committments; admire her ‘Hollywood’ connections or drool at her physical attributes u are ll fllowing your patriarchal instincts- why doesnt Churumuri publish smilar tiries of ‘ hunks’ from Mysore- Because there arent any or because the readers are mostly patriarchal males claiming to be Str8:)
RK there isnt any rigid stereotype of the Indian female- thee are 500 million of us you know!!
@Anonymous guy:
:) I don’t think I am a badass of any kind. DB doesn’t have to be afraid of me and vice versa. Just some friendly bantering going on. thats all.
@RK:
what should we be proud of? that these girls got caught cheating? we are not discussing their academic careers here, however brilliant [or not] it may have been. we are not discussing their pedigree here, however much pure-blooded [ or not ] they are.
How they got disqualified and the fact that it happened to 2 sisters in such a unbelievable & similar way, makes it worthy of talking about it, even after so long. Its hard to believe that its been 20 years since Kalpana’s incident & Lakshmi’s incident feels like it happened only just yesterday -but its been 5 yrs already.
But yes, its good to see them move on and focus on tomorrow. May they achieve enough to erase the memories.
Gaby,
We don’t grudge pictures of Mysore/Karnataka origin hunks on churumuri too for your enjoyment – if such photos can be dug up.
Maybe you may find this interesting (I think this was linked in some other churumuri article):
Muscle Men of Mysore:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redbull/sets/72157608522834518/
Gaby, what is wrong in being patriarchal?
Sure Churumuri should publish pictures of hunks.
Let women drool over those pictures. But to call such lying hunks “pedigreed” and “foward looking” would be another ball game altogether.
A pedigreed family makes a person sound like a poodle or a greyhound!
This whole pedigree discussion is crap. Admittedly it does shock quite a few in Karnataka(like Ravi noted) when they compare-contrast BVP vs the Pandit sisters. That apart, it’s their life.
They tried to hoodwink the rules, were caught and rightfully stripped of their crown. It is immaterial as to how many other contestants got away. Beyond that, if they have moved on and are successful in what they are doing today, even if it is not practicinsg medicine they studied and excelled at, it’s their choice.
If this article-comments are any indication M/s Pandit owes zilch to Nanjangud Hallu Pudi ? She would have had it difficult than an average aspiring actress, thanks to the BVP comparison ? And we dare say she owes it all to the pink powder ?
People who lap it up when pedigree Kareena Kapoor shows skin in a swimsuit have an axe to grind if done by a BVP descendent ? Why ? So alale kayi pandithana maga alalekai pandithane agabeke ? And we have issues with dynastic rule ? If we are talking of pedigree / pure blood (blah) why are we complaining of Gandhis-Gowdas and their dynastic rule ? Or why let a Karanth pedigree roam the jungles trying his hand at radio collaring the Tigers and a killing a few in the bargain ?
@RK,
Just when I thought you made good points you dole out a rash generalization and leave a bad taste :-(
Madhu Rao, generalizations and assumptions?
Are there no better role models than such and suchlike trash you seem to expend so much energy over?
Setting them up as role models is different from them excercising their choices, don’t you think?
@Watching,
You need to explain a tad more than a “generalizations and assumptions?”. Are you saying I am generalizing ? Or are you taking umbrage to me calling someone’s comments generalizations ? I don’t see much of either sans my opening line about pedigree talk being crap. That, I still stand by. Unless we are talking of race horses or canines, one’s actions(even cheating) ought to weigh more than what his/her father did. Pedigree used to let a Puru Rajkumar/Salman Khan go scot free or a Kalpan Pandit to un-necessary scrutiny is wrong.
I did state, quite clearly that the sisters got what they deserved for trying to cheat. As far as role models, though I am in agreement with you that neither of the Ms. Pandits is a great choice, I and you do not get to set that. If a kid from Kollegala decides ‘Main Kalpana Pandit Banna Chahti Hoon’, you or I cannot do much. A role model is a personal choice. It can be a Shabana Azmi, Gangubai Hanagal, Kalpana Pandit or a Rakhi Sawant :-)
All I’m saying is, Nanjangud Hallu Pudi did zilch for this lady. If anything it may have added fuel to the insult she piled on herself by cheating. Even on cheating, look around, if you are in one of the software shops 1 in 3, men and women alike would have fudged their resumes.
You are devoting more time than me to brand this woman and making her out to be what she isn’t. That’s unfair.
Madhu Rao – I don’t agree that we cannot influence choices.
That’s why we debate is it not? We test our ideas on the bedrock of interrogation.
I don’t believe you will remain silent if a young girl comes to you and says – “Madhu uncle, I want to be like that woman in that poster there!”.
I don’t see you smiling to yourself and beaming with pride at such a display of independent and free willed choice.
Or am I wrong?
@Watching,
Your optimism makes me smile. I do want to believe that we skewer our thoughts on the flames of imagination-interrogation and come up with a fare that influences the world, but ..
Be it my niece or my daughter, I have only so much of a say and for only so long. Once they are in a position to make their choices, all I can do is hope they do not make bad choices, advise them and hope-pray that the values we as parents instilled, will prevail. That does not mean a no to show business or modeling. It just means that whatever choices they make, hopefully, are sensible and prudent and not short sighted. This would include not-cheating..
Like I have said before, I will not hold up either of the Pandit sisters as a role model for my daughter/niece. But that does not mean that we can call them whores and trash them ? Life is not black or white, it is various shades of grey. She cheated and paid for it. It’s been 20 years since. So time to move on ?
Watching/Palahalli was probably suggested that he will get Ram Sene type hooligans to belt the girls if they dont do his bidding and sit at home and cook.
@Madan,
It’s true that both the sisters were stripped of the Miss India title.
Reminds me of a comment a close friend of mine made –
“One sister was not a “Miss” (as Lakshmi was rumored to be married) and the other was not “India” (Kalpana was a NRI) ” !
@Mysorean:
bro, your friend was bang on target. Although both sisters were eventually disqualified, at least kalpana had only 1 reason for disqualification :- that she was not an Indian citizen. [btw, then itself she was an American citizen and not an NRI].
Lakshmi , on the other hand, was disqualified on mulitple grounds as
1) she lied about her marital status
2) she lied about her age
3) she lied about her education
4) she lied about her profession
about #3: she had an MBBS degree – but did not reveal it as it would have alerted the organizers about her real age. Miss India contestants can not be older than 23 [24?]. And no MBBS degree holder can finish before he/she is 23, excluding Doogie Howser – types and Laksmi, my dear friends, was no Doogie Howser.
about #4: she claimed to be an amateur sketch artist. Difficult to believe that an MBBS degree holder will chose to be an amateur sketch artist -which is possible on paper, but in this kaliyuga? debatable..
Moving on, Kalpana is practising medicine in Iowa State in U.S.A , apart from gyrating to Bolly tunes every then & then. But Where is Lakshmi ? She got a bit part in a bolly movie called Garam Masala – which also had another girl of interest to readers of this blog – koorgi kodavathi Daisy Bopanna. But that is another story for another day.
So where is Lakshmi ? is she in Mysore? Bangalore? USA? I doubt she is still in Mumbai , not after all that mangalaarthi she got in 2004.
Maybe if we google “Lakshmi Raj Pandit” or should it be “Lakshmi Mishra” now..
Reading the observations here, I wonder why Kannadigas who have comfortably settled in the West even bother to think about their erstwhile country and its people. I would suggest to Ms Pandit to concentrate on her medical career and forget about Bollywood and anything associated with India. A few NRI here who are commentators should be ashamed of their negative observations and as for Churumuri, well what she does is her business …
@Hello, Hello:
you should know that NRI Kannadigas still love Mysore, Karanataka & India as much as anyone else.
We are just discussing how Kalapana & Lakshmi lied, cheated & got caught.
Its not our observations that are negative. Its your attitude.
It is not we commentators who should be ashamed, but Kalpana & Lakshmi -for bringing disrepute to Mysore & Karnataka.
True, what Kalpana & Lakshmi do is their own business. But when the name & fame of our city & state is dragged in mud as a result of their actions -then we are justified in blaming them.
Many others also agree. That is why we are discussing this K.L.P.D topic.
Now before you and/or anyone else jumps to any conclusion, let me clarify that the K.L.P.D here stands for Kalpana & Lakshmi Pandit Disqualification, and not for anything else.
Why are you even dragging Churmuri into all this.
If you & anyone else fight over the phone, then is BSNL responsible?
Churmuri is just enabling us to discuss topics of interest. Its not like they are against anyone.
If you don’t have anything better to contribute, then I suggest you order a masala dosa at GTR or an onion dosa at Mylari, & finish it off with a cup of strong coffee. That should keep you better occupied.
Madan
I do not want to reply to your silly comments except to say this It appears that you need to grow up. It is your sheer ignorance that assumes that I live in Bangalore or even in India. That said your attitude is simply pathetic.
@hello,hello:
its better you don’t reply at all, seeing that you have nothing to contribute. where you are is of no importance to me. Even better that you don’t like my attitude.
Coming back to the original topic:
here is some more info about Lakshmi on what happened to her & Siddarth Mishra before and after the controversy.
Before: Lakshmi was kicked out of the Gladrags Mega Model Contest in 2003 itself. Then after the controversy, even Siddarth Mishra was kicked out of the Gladrags Mega Model Contest [in 2004 ].
Also in 2002 Lakshmi was a top -9 finalist in the same Miss India contest that she won in 2004.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/03-31b-04.htm
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Laxmi Pandit and her ‘husband’ Siddharth Mishra both are professional beauty pageants contestants who fraudulently make a career out of winning goodies in beauty contests. Pandit, who won the Miss India-World title on Saturday, has been in the news due to media reports that she is actually married when the contest allows only unmarried women to participate. Controversial Femina Miss India-World title winner Laxmi Pandit was last year thrown out of Miss India’s rival beauty contest Gladrags Model and Man-Hunt for submitting a fake resume/profile. Maureen Wadia, organiser, Gladrags, said: “During our selection process, we found far too many discrepancies and lies on her resumé. We heard that she was married. Having spent a lot of time and money on training her for three weeks, we decided to chuck her out.” Wadia said that though she was debarred after getting short-listed for the Model-Hunt, according to contractual agreements, Pandit could not have entered another pageant within the same year but still entered the Miss India contest.
While the fate of Pandit’s crown will be decided by the Miss India organisers today, Gladrags has also decided to kick out Pandit’s partner and alleged husband Siddharth Mishra, who is a short-listed contestant for its coming April 2 event.
Wadia said he too had posed as a bachelor. “I hear the police have Siddharth Mishra’s marriage certificate. This pageant is strictly for singles. We shall drop him after examining the papers,” she said.
According to the allegedly married couple’s verification form with the Malad police, Mishra is a doctor at Cumballa Hill Hospital. However, he allegedly did not mention this on the CV sent to the Model-Hunt organisers.
Pandit had also recently won a beauty contest titled VLCC Miss Perfect 10. As per police verification papers, she had been living as Mishra’s wife at Liberty Gardens, Malad, for a few months after shifting out of another Malad apartment. Both Mishra and Pandit, according to the same police document, hail from Gangavati in Karnataka.
Citing the couple’s case, Wadia mentioned a common phenomenon at beauty pageants called “veteran contest entrants.”
She said, “Several people make a profession out of enrolling into pageants. They keep getting groomed and re-entering through changing their full names, cities they appear from or other fabrications in their entry forms.
Pandit’s and Mishra’s was a typical case of youngsters who make such contests unfair to other eligible participants.”
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About Siddharth Mishra:
http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/44256/
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Siddarth Mishra, the alleged husband of Lakshmi Pandit who surrendered the Miss India World title, was on Thursday debarred from participating in the Gladrags Manhunt contest. Mishra came under focus after his photographs were flashed in various publications for being allegedly married to Pandit, who had been conferred the crown at the Ponds Femina Miss India 2004 contest held on Saturday. ‘‘There were discrepancies in the information provided by Mishra,’’ Gladrags organisers said. The Gladrags contest , to be held on April 2, was open only to models who were single, the source said. —(PTI)
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Interview with Siddarth Mishra after the controversy :
http://sify.com/peopleandplaces/interview.php?id=13445913&cid=13150109
Interview with Lakshmi Pandit after the controversy :
http://sify.com/peopleandplaces/interview.php?id=13447300&cid=13150109
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BREAKING NEWS
MISS INDIA WORLD IS 25, NOT 22 AND IS MARRIED
http://media.santabanta.com/gal/mi2004/contestants/lakshmi1.jpg
Mysore, Mar. 31 (KMC)- Infamy follows a short stint of fame enjoyed by Lakshmi Pandit, the beautiful damsel from Mysore, who was crowned Miss India World in Mumbai on Saturday, as skeletons fall out of her closet.
For Lakshmi, who was disqualified in the Gladrags Mega Model Contest 2003 for “inconsistency,” the party for being crowned Miss India World 2004 was over before it could begin, thanks to a report on her marital status, telecast by Aaj Tak TV channel.
Lakshmi Pandit, flouting the rules of the contest, had mentioned in the contestant’s form that she was a spinster. According to reports, she is married to one Siddarth and she herself is a doctor by profession, which she cleverly did not mention in the form as it would disclose her age.
Lakshmi’s bio-data
According to people in Mysore who know Lakshmi’s family well, she was born on April 11, 1979 in Ravi Nursing Home, to well-known physician Dr. B. V. Rajagopal, son of Mr. B. V. Pandit from Nanjangud, manufacturer of famous pink coloured toothpowder.
She had her schooling from Marimallappa High School (SSLC – 1994 and PUC – 1996).
According to some of her friends here, Lakshmi, while studying medicine in JSS Medical College here between 1996 and 2001, waited for Siddarth, an year junior to her, to complete his studies, after which, the duo left for Mumbai, since her parents did not approve of the match.
It is said she lived with Siddarth in an apartment in Malad.
Sis’ too had lost crown
She followed in her sister Kalpana Pandit’s footsteps, who, after being crowned Miss India Universe in 1989, was dismantled of the tiara as the contest organisers realised that she had wrongly declared that she was an Indian citizen, while she still held a US passport. Kalpana Pandit was Miss Karnataka in 1988.
According to sources, Kal-pana, who was in the US for a couple of years, has settled in Mumbai now and has appeared in Jaan Leva, a dance item in the flick Moksh, in which Arjun Ramphal plays lead role.
Lakshmi is said to have stated in an interview that she was from Bangalore, while she had mentioned that she had been studying in Mysore and had left the place only last year.
Probe begins to dig out truth
A top Times In-fotrainment executive told a private TV channel yesterday that a team of executives visited the residence of Ms. Pandit yesterday and conducted preliminary probe.
“We met her mother Mrs. Lalitha Rajagopal, who claimed that her daughter is unmarried. It was a meeting of hardly 30 minutes,” he added. He said that the probe will continue into all the aspects till the truth was found out.
Mrs. Bhouleswar, a neighbour of Ms. Pandit in the apartment, who in fact tipped the Aaj Tak channel about the background of Ms. Pandit after watching the telecast of beauty contest on Sony TV, told another channel yesterday that Ms. Pandit introduced herself and the man accompanying as “Mr. and Mrs.” when they came searching for an apartment. They claimed that they were doctors. The man is Dr. Siddarth Mishra, also a model.
“When I saw her on TV, I wondered as to what she is doing here? (Yeh yahan *** kar rahi hai?). This contest is only meant for Miss and not Mrs,” she added.
BREAKING NEWS
Laxmi Pandit returns Miss India crown
Wednesday, 31 March , 2004, 18:15
Mumbai: Femina Miss India-World 2004 Laxmi Pandit today returned her crown after a controversy erupted over her marital status, Assistant Editor of Femina Madhvi Purohit told PTI.
Pandit is facing an inquiry into allegations that she was married. One of the prerequisites of the Miss India contest is that only unmarried women are eligible to participate.
She was earlier kicked out of the Gladrags Model and Man-Hunt contest for submitting a fake CV.
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About being the top-9 finalist in Femina Miss India 2002 :
http://www.bollywoodpremiere.com/movies/miss-india-2004/index3.php
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She had even won these prizes too :
VLCC Miss Perfect 10 and Femina Miss Photogenic
http://www.anilkumarpillai.com/babes.html
too bad it had to end this way.
Madan!
Sorry it is ‘Taliban-like’ morons such as yourself giving a bad name to Mysore. What is the big deal in twisting a few facts before that moronic competition called Miss India? As I see it there should be no reason why tongues should be wagging against the Pandit sisters. Here is my thinking: 1. Are they good looking girls? Yes.
2. Then what is your problem? Sure the organizers didn’t see this way and they disqualified the Sisters. Where is the great shame to Mysore City? I fail to see it. In fact I am happy that we have such lovely women from our city.
Also divinely virginal in appearance, our past Miss Indias have all turned out to be out and out social climbers of our softporn Bollywood! So I fail to see your moronic sarcasm at these two ladies.
DB- I think the best way one can defang a poisonous term like Taliban is to use it carelessly. Hindus need the term to remain pristine pure in meaning what it is. Please use it carefully and with greater effect where deserved.
DB,
My opinion is exactly same as yours. It is what you rightly put as Talibanism that is a real shame with a few Mysoreans which we were never known to possess given our culture of welcoming people of all sorts to Mysore. I have no problem in accepting these two women as good Mysoreans. We knew too their family including the elderly
B V Pundit. Why can’t we Mysoreans accept two beautiful women as they are and not get so cynical and judgemental?
@ doddi buddhi
:) My posts are provoking you? well good for you. you are only making a moron out of yourself.
you are forced to stoop to name calling as there is no substance in what you say.
But I won’t ask you to stop it as it reveals your real personality -actually the lack of it.
“What is the big deal in twisting a few facts” — well doddi, you must know that the contest has rules that have to be followed by every contestant, just like in any civilized society -which obviously you are not a part of.
No one is allowed to “twist a few facts”. This is done so that the contest is fair to all the contestants. Also Lakshmi did not just “twist a few facts”, but lied outright about almost everything that had to be disclosed – her age, her education, her profession and most importantly her marital status. When you lie so much, it’s not called “twisting a few facts”, it’s called blatant cheating.
We – that is, others and myself, excluding posters like you, are discussing about how the 2 sisters in question were disqualified from the Miss India contest. No poster questioned the girls being beautiful or ugly.
It’s their cheating that is being discussed here. If they did win the contest, albeit by cheating, it goes without saying that they must at least be beautiful to look at.
But the Miss India contest winners are supposed to LOOK beautiful AND also BE beautiful i.e. personality wise. The concept of inner beauty is apparently lost on neanderthals like yourself.
“that moronic competition called Miss India” –If you don’t agree with the rules of the Miss India contest, then you can start your own beauty contest. When anyone applies for contesting in the Miss India beauty contest, they agree to abide by all the rules and regulations.
Kalpana Pandit & Lakshmi Pandit did not do so and hence faced the consequences. Now you know what the organizers saw when they disqualified Kalpana Pandit & Lakshmi Pandit.
Mysore city has the distinction of being the only city in the world to have 2 sisters disqualified from the same beauty contest. This is not a matter of honor, but one of shame that a glorious heritage city like
Mysore is now associated with such a shameful incident -that too not once but twice.
“our past Miss Indias have all turned out to be out and out social climbers of our softporn Bollywood! ”
Kalpana Pandit, in spite of having a medical practice comes to Bollywood to do “Item Numbers” and Lakshmi Pandit worked as an extra in a Bollywood movie [Garam Masala].
Since Kalpana Pandit & Lakshmi Pandit are still struggling to be part of the very same “softporn Bollywood”, your statement implies that Kalpana & Lakshmi are into soft porn. Are you defending them or what?
But the other Miss India contest did NOT lie / cheat about their age, profession, education or marital status. They won by abiding by all the rules & regulations.
Its one thing to compare the winners & losers, but no one with an IQ of 100 or more will compare those who won with those who got disqualified…
There is no truth in what you say, doddi.. better order that dosa & coffee now.
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@hello hello:
are you confused because of the company you are keeping with doddi, or is it congenital? I suspect it is the latter.
I suggest you first read all the posts here, and then write the following 3 statements 100 times with neat handwriting:
1. Good Mysoreans don’t lie, cheat and get disqualified in Miss India contests.
2. Good Mysoreans don’t lie, cheat and get kicked out of GladRags Model contests.
3. Good Mysoreans don’t swear an affidavit in front of a court appointed notary, stating that they are married – when they are single.
I can go on, but for anyone with an iota of common sense, these reasons should be enough.
Kalpana Pandit & Lakshmi Pandit may be Mysoreans, but definitely not Good Mysoreans. At least not until now.
Just because you know their family, doesn’t make Kalpana & Lakshmi Good Mysoreans.
They should have done something to be proud of, only then will Mysore city be proud of them & they can be called Good Mysoreans.
Hopefully you have understood all that was taught in today’s class.
When they got disqualified, it meant that their victory was nullified.
so hello, if you are still thinking that they won the Miss India contest, then here is the clarification from the rest of the world : THEY DID NOT.
@ doddi and hello:
do post more replies, let’s make this the best webpage on the internet to get all & any publicly available detail/s about Kalpana Pandit & Lakshmi Pandit.
some pics to pep up this discussion:
http://www.apniphotos.net/photos/data/1308/pandit_kalpana6.jpg
http://www.apniphotos.net/photos/data/1308/pandit_kalpana7.jpg
http://www.apniphotos.com/photos/data//1308/pandit_kalpana8.jpg
http://www.apniphotos.net/photos/data/1308/pandit_kalpana9.jpg
http://www.apniphotos.net/photos/data/1308/pandit_kalpana10.jpg
here’s a video too:
Madan,
Thank you! Please post more photos!! You have a serious psychiatric condition of a ‘unloved’ fan who is a stalker.
I would prefer the Pandit Sisters as good Mysoreans any day!
There are issues about Life in general and Mysore in particular you will never understand. I think you have revealed your mindset very clearly and we all feel you should relocate to Helmand province of Afganisthan. Thanks.
This guy Siddharth Mishra – who studied in Mysore( but was he born in mysore)is also supposed to have lied- how come nobody is saying nothing nasty about him? maybe Gaby would be happy to talk about him!!
@doddi buddi:
no dude, i don’t have any hangups over these 2 cheating girls. whether they love me or not does not matter to me. I don’t think love was the topic here at any point. you are just digressing from the main topic to draw attention to your own shortcomings elsewhere… if you understand what I mean.
Stalking is another story. i am not into anything illegal, so that is out of the picture.
Your preferences are just 1 person’s opinion. The rest of the city has a different opinion. They don’t see these girls as any kind of role-models at all. just models, who cheated and got caught.
Thank you for thinking about my relocation, but I am well settled and have no need to visit your friends & family in Helmand, Afghanistan.
I am also posting information about these 2 girls, available on the IMDB site.
Kalpana Pandit:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1261231/board/threads/
Lakshmi Pandit:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1898972/board/threads/
Doddi, you are replying more than a week after the last post. what happened? your dosa and coffee are still not ready?
@Rahul Mirchi:
Siddharth Mishra got kicked out of Gladrags Model contest. after that both Lakshmi n Siddharth have been keeping a really low profile.
I watched the Garam Masala movie, but did not see Lakshmi anywhere at all. She must have been in one of those blink-and-you-miss-her roles.
They also must have got kicked out of their flat in mumbai, since they admitted that they lied to get the apartment.
maybe Gaby does not want to talk anything about rent-a-husband Siddharth Misha.
Nice to see kannada girls give competition to bollywood bombshells with their bikini acts and oozing oomph! Way to go Hudugiyaraa!
Pictures of Kalpana Pandit’s wedding in 2009
http://picasaweb.google.com/kailashrb21/KalpanaPanditWedding#