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Date Posted: 18:04:57 05/24/01 Thu
Author: Voojura
Subject: Celina's 5 minutes interview with Femina

EVERY morning, I see the sun rise in a different city — that’s how much my life has changed since the win,” sighs Femina Miss India- Universe 2001 Celina Jaitly, as she prepares to face the cameras in her first stint as a VJ for MTV. “It’s been a whirlwind existence, what with all the relief work, photo shoots, press conferences and public appearances. But I’m loving every mo-ment of it.” The best part of it all, she says, is actually being Miss India. “Over-night, you’re this public figure with so much attention, so much access to people and places, so much responsibility. It’s just amazing!”

But with all the limelight comes the downside of being a public figure too. “I haven’t seen my brother for 10 months and haven’t spent any time with my family for almost as long... Sometimes,” she says, a little sadly, “I feel like a little girl — quite lost amidst all that is happening around me. But when I think of actually winning, I realise how much it means to me and to my family, and every bit seems totally worth it.”


GOING FOR THE WIN

Amid the madness, Celina stays amazingly calm and focused — a quality that obviously stood her in good stead n the final round of the Femina Miss India contest. “I’m not nervous at all; I’m not the type — or maybe it’s just that I’ve been too busy to feel anything,” she laughs.

Celina is very clear about where she’s headed. “Training for the international pageant is very different from training for the national one. At the national pageant, you know exactly what to expect — you’re competing with other Indians with whom you share a certain common heritage and background. Whereas in the international pageant, you simply don’t know what to expect from the other contestants, especially since they belong to such culturally diverse climates.” That’s why Celina says she’s concentrating so much on understanding Indian culture. “In effect, you become an ambassador for your country out there, and how much of it you really understand is what will make you stand out.” It is also about how well you express yourself. Which is why Celina is taking her diction and speech classes with Sabira Merchant very seriously, and is also working on the question and answer session with her father. “We received the bulk of our training for the Femina Miss India contest; what remains is merely to add the finishing touches — keeping the global angle in mind.”

So while Celina will be back at the gym with Talwalkars for an hour every morning, this time she’ll be working out with weights to add some definition to her already well-toned body. “I’ve also been visiting Dr Jamuna Pai for weekly sessions for my face and skin.” Apart from that, there’s a regimented diet set out for her by Dr Anjali Mukherjee, a perfected hair care programme by Dr Apoorva Shah and a styling and make-up routine with Bharat and Doris Godambe and the fun part — setting up a whole new designer wardrobe with ace craftsmen Hemant Trevedi for the Sheetal Design Studio and Ritu Kumar.

So now though it’s back to the gym and the hectic training sessions; this time round the schedules are more measured, Celina’s efforts are more precise and she’s even more determined to achieve that perfection, that finesse and that final je ne sais quoi, that have always been the mark of a winner.

-Gayatri Jayaraman for Femina

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