Assam girl crowned Miss Intertiol India 2016

By our Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, Sept 12: The gorgeous ‘Gorkhali Gabhuru’,  an Assam daughter and pride of the North East Rewati Chetri was crowned Miss Intertiol India 2016 in its first edition of the beauty pageant that took place at Novotel Hotel in Pune on Sunday night. She bagged the title defeating 16 other contestants, and will now represent India at the Miss Intertiol 2016 Pageant slated for next month in Tokyo.

Twenty-three-year-old Rewati was born to Baburam Chetri and Bi Chetri  and brought up in a small town of Haflong in Assam. She attended her schooling from St. Agnes’ Convent High School, Haflong and graduated in commerce degree from Lumding College, Lumding.

The full-time supermodel and an actress was one of the top 10 filists at Femi Miss India 2015 pageant where she won Miss India Miss Popular and Miss Multimedia subtitles. Rewati represented India at World Miss University 2016 pageant, held in Beijing, where she bagged the continental crown of Miss Asia University.

In July, she made her debut film in a Hindi flim “Gangs of Northeast”, directed by Rupak Gogoi and co-produced by Sanjive rain and Kenny Lyngdoh Talang.

Speaking to this reporter from her hotel in Pune the super model said, “I must thank my friends and supporters who lent their support and blessings Miss India happened last year. I cannot me all of them but I sincerely acknowledge immense support from my family and closed friends who stood by me thick and thin. I must credit the social media enthusiasts and the Northeast  media, both print and electronic, for their publicity and support that made the way for me to crown Miss Intertiol India.”

The super model further said: “I’m now called ‘Gorkhali Gabhuru’ joni from the famous lyrics of Mahamab Asom Rat Dr, Bhupen Hazarika – the legend dedicated to Gorkhali beauty of Assam at Kapili river. I must thank my people back home for awarding me this title and keeping me in their prayers and blessing me through out. I will try my best to bring home for India the Miss Intertiol 2016, which will be the 56th Miss Intertiol pageant; it will be held on October 27, 2016 at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of most prestigious and premier pageants in the world founded by the Japanese.”

Back home her school, college, university friends have began celebration, and social media is full of random shares of her crowned photos. The modeling and fashion fraternity have congratulated her for bringing laurels to the state. The All Assam Gorkhali Mahila Samitee, Greater Guwahati Gorkhali Mahila Samitee, AAGSU Guwahati City Committee, AAGSU and Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, Dima Hasao District committee and the GACDC have also extended congratulations message to Rewati Chetry. Several students and youth organizations, civil society organizations too have applauded the young model’s feat.