Miss India America pageant on Aug 23

Jameson Empire Awards 2012LOS ANGELES, CA: The star studded VIP charity gala ceremony of the crowning of Miss India America and Mr India America will be held in Los Angeles on August 23. The event will be televised worldwide.

The year 2014 marks as the 22nd anniversary for the beauty pageant. Founded in 1992, by Jinnder Chohan, the pageant was the beginning of a small movement which grew over the period and has now become an International phenomenon. Mr & Miss India America 2014 is presented by Star Plus TV, Life OK, Wells Fargo, South Asia Magazine and JINmodels.com.

The pageant will be on Saturday, August 23 at the LAX Renaissance hotel (9620 Airport Blvd., Los Angeles). Celebrity red carpet arrivals begin at 6pm, followed by dinner (catered by Ashoka Indian Restaurant), show and celebration party with DJ.

Jinnder mentioned, “Our pageant will be an amazing cultural experience with glamour and entertainment, displaying Indian beauty and talent on a mainstream platform. We will have international media covering our red carpet arrivals, and we are excited to have Star Plus TV’s camera crew shooting Mr & Miss India America to be aired on their #1 Indian channel worldwide. We also have today’s hottest and busiest Bollywood producer and director, Anurag Kashyap, coming exclusively from Mumbai to judge our pageant”.

With the evolution of time, the event has become a convergence of fashion, beauty and media under one roof. The evening will begin with a dazzling array of prominent personalities from across the globe, these include: Sacramento Kings owner – Vivek Ranadive, Bollywood director/producer Anurag Kashyap (Hasee Toh Phasee, Queen, Dev D, Black Friday, Bombay Velvet, etc.) actress Bai Ling (The Crow), actress Camilla Luddington (Grey’s Anatomy), actress Janina Gavankar (True Blood), actress Natalie Burn (The Expendables 3), model Caitlyn O’Connor, Lakers Kareem Rush, actress Natasha Blasick (Paranormal Activity), actress Melody Thomas Scott (The Young & The Restless), NFL player Bret Lockett, actress Maitlin Ward (White Chicks), actress Brandi Burkhardt (Hart of Dixie), model Courtney Stodden, actor Eric Nelson (The Americans), actress Agam Darshi (Sanctuary), actress Tessa Harnetiaux (Cinemax’s The Girl’s Guide to Depravity), celebrity designer Aerin O’Connell, celebrity stylist Ali Levine, and many others.

India Post News Service