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Manasvi Mamgai | |
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Born | New Delhi, India |
Education | Hansraj Public School, Panchkula, Haryana |
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Beauty pageant titleholder | |
Title | Elite Model Look India 2006 Miss Tourism International 2008 Femina Miss India World 2010 |
Manasvi Mamgai is an Indian actress, model, social worker and beauty pageant winner. [1] She won the titles of Miss India Tourism International and Miss Tourism International 2008 and Femina Miss India 2010. She also represented India at Miss World 2010. In 2016, she became the Indian Ambassador of the Republican Hindu Coalition. [2] She was a contestant on the 2023 Indian reality TV show, Bigg Boss season 17.
Mamgai was born in Delhi and grew up in Chandigarh. Her mother Prabha, was from Uttarakhand. [3]
By the age of 15, she had won around 50 state and national awards in dancing, singing, and skating. [4]
Mamgai won Elite Model Look India in 2006, debuted at India Fashion Week and won Miss Tourism International 2008. [5] She was chosen as Miss India 2010 and represented India at the 2010 Miss World beauty pageant in China. She was chosen in the top eight in the Miss World Finale in 2010 in the Dances of the world. [6] Since then, she has modelled for Indian designers and shot various campaigns, including for Indian and international magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Femina, Verve, Cosmopolitan and New Face, and Code of Style. [7]
Mamgai is an alumnus of Anupam Kher's acting school in Mumbai. [8] In 2012 she was a part of the movement-based play, LIMBO, that received critical reviews. [9] It was showcased in Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai and screened in Paris. [10] The same year she appeared in the documentary The World Before Her .[ citation needed ]
In 2014 she played the antagonist, Marina, opposite Ajay Devgn in the Eros International studio movie Action Jackson, directed by Prabhu Deva. Mamgai appeared in the Indian comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil along with her Action Jackson cast. In 2015, she was nominated for the Best Debutant award at Filmfare Awards where she was also a presenter. In 2020, she was lead of the music videos, "Yaadein" by American R&B duo TheMxxnlight and "Dum ba Dum" by Daler Mehndi. [11]
Mamgai currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing a career in acting and producing. [12] She was recently the winner of the American game show The Price Is Right. [13]
She played the role of Juhi Bhatia in The Trial in 2023 on Disney+ Hotstar. She entered the reality game show Bigg Boss season 17 as a wild-card entry in October 2023.
In 2016, Mamgai became the Indian Ambassador to the Republican Hindu Coalition. [14]
Mamgai put together the "Humanity United against Terror" a Bollywood Charity Concert which took place on 15 October 2016 at NJ Exposition center in Edison, New Jersey. [15] The concert was addressed by President-Elect Donald Trump. She even performed in it with Bollywood celebrities including Malaika Arora, Prabhu Deva, Sophie Choudry. [16]
Mamgai, along with Bollywood singing sensation Mika Singh, performed at Donald Trump's pre-inaugural Welcome Celebrations at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. She led over a dozen Indian dancers performing to popular Bollywood numbers including the Oscar-winning "Jai Ho" of A R Rahman. The live event was played in front of 800,000 people and was telecast to over 2 billion viewers worldwide. [17] Mamgai attended other Inaugural functions, including Trump's VIP Candle Light Dinner at Union Station. [18]
Mamgai attended the first time celebration of Diwali at The Oval Office in the presence of President Donald Trump on 17 October 2017. [19] [20] She is active in the RHC Immigration campaign to have equitable treatment for DALCA kids (300,000 legal childhood arrivals from India who lose their status at the age of 21) and reduce the Green Card backlog of hi-skilled legal immigrants based on merit. [21]
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