Asha Bhat

Asha Bhat (born 5 September 1992) is an Indian model, engineer and beauty pageant titleholder from Karnataka. She was the first Indian to won the Miss Supranational pageant in 2014.[1]

Asha Bhat
Bhat at an event for Junglee
Born
Asha Bhat

(1992-09-05) 5 September 1992
Bhadravati, Karnataka, India
Alma materElectronic engineering from R.V. College of Engineering
OccupationModel, engineer
Years active2014–Present
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Title
  • Miss Supranational 2014
  • Miss Diva Supranational 2014
Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorDark Brown
Major
competition(s)
  • Miss Supranational 2014
    (Winner)
    (Best in Talent)
  • Miss Diva - 2014
    (Winner - Miss Diva Supranational 2014)
    (Miss Congeniality)
    (Miss Beautiful Smile)
    (Miss Fascinating)

Early life and education

Bhat was born in Bhadravati, an industrial city in the Shimoga district of Indian state of Karnataka on 5 September 1992 to Kannada Brahmin parents Subrahmanya and Shyamala Bhat. Both her parents are medical laboratory technicians and have been serving the Bhadravati city clinical laboratories. She has one elder sister, Dr. Akshatha, who is a paediatrician.[2]

Bhat attended St. Charles School in Bhadravathi and pursued her pre-university education at Alva's Pre-University College in Moodbidri. She was also a meritorious student at Prime Academy, an IIT JEE coaching institute in Pune. She claimed studying at the institute helped her win beauty contests.[3] She enrolled for National Cadet Corps while studying at the Alvas College and was selected to participate in the Republic Day Camp. She was a member of National Cadet Corps delegation from SAARC nations and visited Sri Lanka Military Academy and won all rounder award in the year 2009, awarded by the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa.[4] Later she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electronic engineering at the R.V. College of Engineering.[5]

Pageantry

In the year 2014, she participated in Miss Diva pageant organized by The Times Group and was crowned Miss India Supranational 2014, next to Alankrita Sahai who was crowned Miss India Earth 2014 and Noyonita Lodh, the eventual winner of the contest and was crowned Miss India Universe, at the grand finale of the pageant held on 14 October 2014 at Westin Mumbai Garden City in Mumbai. Asha also won three special awards at Miss Diva 2014 including, Miss Congeniality, Miss Beautiful Smile and Miss Fascinating.

She represented India at Miss Supranational 2014 held in Krynica-Zdrój in Poland and was crowned the eventual winner on the grand finale of the pageant held on 5 December 2014. She also won the special award for "Best in Talent" at the pageant. She was crowned Miss Supranational 2014 by the outgoing titleholder Miss Supranational 2013, Mutya Johanna Datul from Philippines.

During her one-year tenure with Miss Supranational she visited Thailand, Myanmar, Hungary, Mauritius, China and numerous trips around Poland and India

In the month of May 2015, she travelled to Thailand. She judged the grand finale of Miss Grand Thailand and along with Miss Supranational 2014 first runner up and the winner of Miss Grand Thailand 2014, Parapadsorn Disdamrong she crowned Tharathip Sukdarunpat as Miss Supranational Thailand at the conclusion of the event held on 12 May 2015 at Indoor Stadium Huamark in Bangkok, Thailand

Filmography
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Film Role Langague Director Notes Ref.
2019 Junglee Meera Hindi Chuck Russell Hindi Debut [6]
2020 Roberrt TBA Kannada Tharun Sudhir Kannada Debut [7]
Dostana 2 Kartik's sister Hindi Collin D'Cunha
Year Award Awarded by Awarded at
2016 Beauty with a purpose Lions Clubs International Lions Gold Awards 2016

Personal life

Asha is based in Mumbai, apart from being a model, she is also a social activist and runs her own NGO named the Astra Foundation.[8]

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References
  1. "India's Asha Bhat is the first Indian to win Miss Supranational 2014 title". ibnlive.com. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  2. "Asha Bhat attributes her success to parents' encouragement". The Hindu.com. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  3. "'Miss Supra' Asha Bhat gets felicitated by Alvas foundation". newskarnataka.com. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  4. VEERENDRA P.M. (27 October 2014). "Asha Bhat felicitated". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  5. Divya Nair (9 December 2014). "How an Indian cadet became Miss Supranational". rediff.com. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. "Ahead of trailer release Junglee actors Vidyut Jammwal, Pooja Sawant and Asha Bhat visit Siddhivinayak temple". Times Now. 4 March 2019.
  7. "Glad to start my journey down south with a Kannada film: Asha Bhat". Indian Express. 5 September 2019.
  8. "Asha Bhat: Tribute to a Girl with Golden Heart". thegreatpageantcommunity.com. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Mutya Datul		 Miss Supranational
2014		 Succeeded by
Stephania Stegman
Preceded by
Vijaya Sharma		 India's Representative to Miss Supranational
2014		 Succeeded by
Aafreen Vaz
Preceded by
First Winner		 Miss Diva Supranational
2014		 Succeeded by
Title was Awarded in Femina Miss India Pageant
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