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 mater	Electronic engineering from R.V. College of Engineering
Occupation	Model, engineer
Years active	2014–Present
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)
Title	Miss Supranational 2014 Miss Diva Supranational 2014
Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Dark 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]

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.

External links

• Miss Supranational Website

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