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Pramila | Esther Victoria Abraham


                                                                             
Miss India beauty contest started on 1947. The most beautiful and smart girls are being selected every year since then. 

Miss India 1947, the first Miss India was Pramila. She was born a Jewish, Esther Victoria Abraham in Kerla, was elected through a special press vote. Her daughter, Naqi Jahan, also became a beauty queen in 1967.

Pramila left her home at 17 years to join a theatre company. She has worked as a vamp and a fearless stunt star in 30 films, including Ulti Ganga, Bijli, Basant and Jungle King. Pramila starred and worked behind-the-scenes in Ardeshir Irani’s Mother India that became the first Indian film to be screened at Buckingham Palace. Pramila also became the first major woman film producer, with 16 films under her Silver Productions banner. She wasn’t the first person to plunge into movie industry. Her sister Romila and cousin Rose had already worked in Bollywood movies before Pramila got her big break. 

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She passed away recently at the ripe old age of 90 years. Her daughter, Naqi Jahan, bcame a beauty queen in 1967. Pramila was elected through a special press vote.The saga of independent India's first-ever beauty queen came to a close on August 6, when Esther Abraham, screen name Pramila, faded into an eternal dissolve.A born rebel, she walked out of her conservative Baghdadi Jewish home in Kolkata at 17 to join a theatre company. 

She went on to realise her real dream and blazed across the Indian screen as a vamp and a fearless stunt star in 30 films, including Ulti Ganga, Bijli, Basant and Jungle King. She became the first major woman film producer, with 16 films under her Silver Productions banner.D M Madhok wrote Choli Ke Andar lyrics for her years before Madhuri Dixit was born and then Bombay chief minister Morarji Desai had her wrongly arrested as a Pakistani spy because of her visits to that country to distribute films. In a big bad man's world, she wore the pants and led an interesting personal life.
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