Ushoshi Sengupta

Ushoshi Sengupta
Ushoshi Sengupta
	Ushoshi Sengupta at I AM SHE Press Conference
Born	Ushoshi Sengupta; 30 July 1988; Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)[1]
Title	I AM She 2010
	Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Major; competition(s)	I AM She 2010; (Winner); Miss Universe 2010

Ushoshi Sengupta (Bengali: উষসী সেনগুপ্ত; born 30 July 1988)[2] is an Indian beauty pageant contestant who won the title of I Am She – Miss Universe India and represented India in Miss Universe 2010 held at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, on 23 August.[3]

Early life

Born in Kolkata, Sengupta is the daughter of an official in the Indian Air Force.[4] She graduated from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballygunje, Kolkata, where she excelled at mathematics and was offered a scholarship to an engineering college, but decided to pursue liberal arts and professional modeling. She has a bachelor's degree in Humanities from the St. Xavier’s College of the University of Calcutta, and worked as a model[5] before becoming Miss Universe India. Sengupta made her debut in the Bengali movie industry with Egoler Chokh which was released in August 2016 and was directed by Arindam Sil.[6]

Filmography

Film career

S.No	Name	Year	Language	Director	Co-cast	Character
1	Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen	2012	Hindi	Sajid Khan	Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez	Cameo
2	Goodbye December	2013	Malayalam	Sajeed A.	Nandini Rai
3	Eagoler Chokh	2016	Bengali	Arindam Sil	Saswata Chatterjee, Joya Ahsan, Payel Sarkar, Anirban Bhattacharya, Gaurav Chakraborty, Arunima Ghosh, June Malia	Shyamangi

Miss Universe 2010

Ushoshi won the first edition of I am She - Miss Universe India, a national pageant organized by Tantra Entertainment Private limited, in collaboration with former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen. As the official representative of her country to the 2010 Miss Universe pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada on 23 August 2010, she participated as one of the 83 delegates who vied for the crown of eventual winner, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico.

References

"Contestants Profiles - Times of India". The Times of India. New Delhi, India. 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
"I Am She 2010 Candidate – Ushoshi Sengupta". Universal Queen. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
"मिस इंडिया यूनिवर्स उशोषी की नजर बॉलीवुड पर" [Miss India Universe Ushoshi eyes Bollywood]. Khaskhabar (in Hindi). 2 June 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
"Ushoshi Sengupta – Miss India 2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
Usha Lakra (21 May 2010). "Meet Ushoshi Sengupta - Miss India Universe 2010". ApunKaChoice. Archived from the original on 2 August 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
"Tollywood". The Telegraph. India. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2018.

Awards and achievements
New title	I Am She 2010	Succeeded by Vasuki Sunkavalli
Preceded by Ekta Chowdhry as Femina Miss India Universe	Miss Universe India 2010	Succeeded by Vasuki Sunkavalli

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[times-1] "Contestants Profiles - Times of India". The Times of India. New Delhi, India. 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

[universalqueen-2] "I Am She 2010 Candidate – Ushoshi Sengupta". Universal Queen. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[3] "मिस इंडिया यूनिवर्स उशोषी की नजर बॉलीवुड पर" [Miss India Universe Ushoshi eyes Bollywood]. Khaskhabar (in Hindi). 2 June 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2010.

[mu-4] "Ushoshi Sengupta – Miss India 2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[apun-5] Usha Lakra (21 May 2010). "Meet Ushoshi Sengupta - Miss India Universe 2010". ApunKaChoice. Archived from the original on 2 August 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[6] "Tollywood". The Telegraph. India. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2018.