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Mrs India Worldwide Earth 2024 Homecoming (1/06/2024)
MEDICAL ENTREPRENEUR RESHMA PRAKASH MAKES MALAYSIA PROUD BY WINNING 2 MAJOR TITLES AT MRS INDIA WORLDWIDE
Story: Dragon Content Contributors: Benjomind Creative Agency Event Photos: Mrs India Worldwide Studio Photos: Baddogz Jin
Reshma crowned by Sylvie Rodgers as MIWW CEO Bharat K Bhramar (L) watches.
It is not often we see Malaysian delegates return home with major titles after competing in prestigious international pageants, but Dr Reshma Prakash, the CEO of a surgical medical clinic in Johore, made our nation proud by winning not just one but two major titles as well as a subsidiary title in Dubai, United Arab Emirates recently.
Reshma, a 33-year-old psychologist and a mother of three from Segamat, Johore was crowned Mrs India Worldwide Water 2024 and also Mrs India Worldwide South Asia 2024, at the Grand Final of the highly celebrated Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2024 pageant which was held at the classy Ajman Hotel in Dubai on 6th May 2024. Reshma also won the Mrs Elegant subsidiary title.
Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide is one of the leading beauty pageants from India which presents a beautiful platform for women across the globe who can participate and showcase their beauty regardless of their age. It has been conducting the event for more than a decade across the globe and celebrating women of the Indian diaspora from all over the world. The pageant showcases the remarkable talent, grace, and empowerment of women of Indian origin worldwide
The competition received more than 20,000 nominations this year, and after a gruelling international selection process, only 104 candidates were selected to compete at the world finals in Dubai this year. Reshma was the only delegate from Malaysia who qualified to represent our country after acing the difficult and demanding global selection process.
Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Water - Reshma Prakash.
Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Mrs South Asia 2024 - Reshma Prakash
The winners were selected by an esteemed panel of judges, chaired by Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide CEO Bharat K Bhramar. It included celebrity hair designer Sylvie Rodgers, actress Tisca Chopra, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2021 Amisha Sethi, International Zone Winner of Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2022 Reshma Vipin Nambiar, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2023 Aparajita Sinha, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2023 Fire Rakhi Saha, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide Earth 2023 Manjari Priya Gupta, ace fashion photographer Rony Kaula, and Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2022 Ruchika Malhotra. The show unfolded under the masterful choreography and direction of the talented Alison A Woodham, complemented by the exquisite styling expertise of Anjali Sahani.
The pageant’s grand finals were graced with the presence of esteemed personalities from the entertainment industry and accomplished professionals.
Reshma was born in Segamat to an Air Force engineer father and homemaker mother. She was originally raised in Jitra, Kedah as her father was based there. Reshma moved to Segamat, Johore after her dad passed away in an accident when she was just a 9 month-year-old baby. Her widowed mum started working at a plastic factory at age 28 to care for the young Reshma and her sister Prathisha. Reshma's mother studied nursing and became a nurse at the local haemodialysis centre in Segamat, to improve their situation.
“My amazing mother Prema Narayanan will always be my role model. She was both my mum, and my dad all rolled into one” expressed Reshma during a media interview session soon after her return from Dubai.
“She put us through school despite having very little money. We could not even attend tuition classes. Despite all the challenges, my sister graduated in financial accounting while I graduated in psychology. Both of us were scholar students. My sister is now with AIA as a manager and I joined Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johore Bahru when I was 23,” she added.
Reshma met her medical doctor husband Dr Raymond Rony at the hospital and got registered in 2015. She had her first boy through a C-section in 2017. She had her twins - a boy and a girl - the following year through normal childbirth but it was a difficult delivery. She lost a lot of blood and was rushed to ICU. But Reshma was determined to survive for her children and pulled through.
At the time Reshma had already started her clinic with her husband. Dedicated to her job, she returned to work a week after delivery to attend to her patients. It was important to her and was a great achievement for her to be able to help other women overcome their problems. She was motivated by her patients, many of whom were divorced or unmarried women.
Reshma has always had a taste for the stage and being in front of the camera even from her post-school days. She used to do some commercial modelling while working part-time as a waitress at McDonald's or KFC when she was only 19. She could earn between RM 150 to RM 200 for each photo shoot.
Reshma’s journey in the competition started when her husband signed her up last year. She was one of the two delegates picked from Malaysia to be part of the pre-selection round in March 2023.
Pre-selection was conducted through many Zoom meetings. She was given 13 tasks to complete that needed to be presented through Instagram. These tasks accounted for 60% of the total score.
As some of these tasks were tedious and specific, Reshma decided to engage Reuben James & Sam Joshua from Benjomind Creative Agency to assist her, as she was not active on social media and was not social media savvy at the time.
Some of the tasks assigned to her included celebrating Holi as the pageant focused on Indian culture and heritage. She also had to learn yoga and traditional dance. She also engaged Stephen, a professional videographer and photographer from SN Film in Klang to assist her in her preparation. Although partially blind, the dedicated Stephen drove from Klang to Johore Baru to help her with the content capture activities.
Although she is of Malayalee origin and only spoke her mother tongue, Tamil, English and Malay, she had to learn a bit of Hindi, to help her understand and communicate better in the pageant.
Due to limited time as a working adult with a tight schedule, she had to complete a week’s worth of tasks within 3 days. She even had to learn how to dance bhangra in under 2 hours.
All her tasks had to be completed perfectly, in fact, more than perfectly, otherwise, she felt she would not have qualified. For this, Reshma truly appreciated her dedicated team and all those who helped through the preparation stages and thanked them profusely.
Her preparations took more than six months. She had meetings with the organisers every Saturday from 10.00 pm to 2.00 am where she was trained and guided in all aspects of the competition such as diet, communications, advocacy etc. All her activities had to be tailored around her pageant program as she could not miss anything.
All her efforts paid off when she was announced as one of the finalists and the only Malaysian to make the cut to the world finals.
“My husband was my backbone throughout this entire process,” quipped Reshma.
She flew into Dubai on 27th April 2024, three days before the start of her pageant week to acclimatise herself to the environment, spend some family time and get a head start. She was accompanied by her husband, her three beautiful children and her mother - her cheerleaders throughout the competition.
On 30th April 2024, Reshma checked into the Hilton Dubai Al Seef, the official pageant week hotel. Her roommate was Dr Niraja Patel, a dentist from the USA.
Her pageant activities started immediately the following day on board a cruise ship where her introduction round was held. This was followed by ramp walk and choreography training, facilitated by the renowned Allison Woodham, founder of The Model Book of India, for the rest of the day, leaving them with less than 4 hours of sleep.
The second day of the competition saw her rising as early as 3.00 am to do her make-up and tie her saree on her own, for a professional photo shoot with Rony Kaula, a famous Bollywood photographer. This was followed by ramp walk training in the same hot pink saree for another 4 to 5 hours. At 6.00 pm, the delegates had another photo shoot in a black dress. They had to get back, shower in 5 minutes, get their make-up done in just 15 minutes and return quickly to the event venue, nearly a kilometre away to avoid being late.
The third day of the competition saw her heading to another photo shoot and pageant activity in orange resort wear. All delegates had to wear various costume jewellery and accessories during the shoot.
There was no let up to her pageant activities with the fourth day seeing her heading to another hotel for her swimwear photo shoot at 6.00 am. The task was more complicated as she had to find her way to the photo shoot venue as part of the competition. The shoot was not restrictive and delegates could wear a coverall during the shoot since it was a Mrs competition.
The physically fit and well-proportioned Reshma was comfortable with the shoot as she had a well-toned body thanks to her being a trained boxer, black belt holder in karate, a gymnast, a salsa dancer and a competitive MSSM athlete in 200m hurdles.
The final day of the competition was held at the Ajman Hotel. All delegates only had fruits and juice for breakfast. Her final outfit was a light blue evening gown by official fashion designer Anjali Shani. She also had to wear 3 to 4-inch heels and had help from a make-up artiste.
As the competition progressed, the delegates were trimmed from 104 to 60, this was when she received her Mrs Elegant subsidiary title.
She was then crowned Mrs South Asia and made it into the Top 22 despite being the only one from Malaysia. Even Singapore had 5 delegates while Hong Kong had 2.
When asked what qualities women should have in the question and answer round, she replied all women should have leadership qualities, earning her loud applause from the audience.
Despite being unwell and having thrown up backstage during the final rounds of the demanding competition, she was announced as one of the top five element finishers where she managed to hold herself together and spoke about the water element, emphasising that 70% of the earth was covered by water. It was also a coincidence that she had handed out mementoes with water elements to all delegates. Even her pageant video was based on the water element.
Unsurprisingly, Reshma was selected and crowned Mrs India Worldwide Water 2024, causing her family to erupt in excitement and joy for her amazing achievement on the world stage.
The main Mrs India Worldwide Earth 2024 title was won by Mousumi Sinha Dutta, from Amsterdam.
Proudly Malaysian Reshma Praksah is Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Water.
Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Water, Mrs South Asia & Mrs Elegant.
“I am so proud and happy to have worked hard and won these two prestigious titles and a subsidiary title for my country. Representing Malaysia on the international stage was huge,” shared Reshma excitedly."
“My biggest challenges throughout the competition were learning to engage on social media, learning Hindi to understand and communicate better with the organisers and other delegates, managing my time and coping with the lack of sleep,” she added.
“I made 100 contacts from 42 countries while there, all talented women, who taught me a lot throughout the competition. They came from all walks of life, religions, diverse Indian ethnicities, lifestyles, ages and professions. Even a grandmother of two competed. I truly bow my heads to them,” expanded Reshma.
“I enjoyed my stay and visit to Dubai. It’s a very safe city, especially for women. No one bothers or disturbs you wherever you travel in the city. People are friendly. All delegates were also friendly no matter where they came from. We enjoyed having Dubai chai and sharing tea. I even saw a mini Kerala in Dubai with many Malayalees going about their business. It was truly an amazing experience visiting this city and being in this challenging but meaningful competition,” continued Reshma.
“When I was there I always spoke about the unity of Malaysia and encouraged my fellow delegates to visit Malaysia,” she proudly proclaimed.
“I always addressed people properly and politely when I was in Dubai. It constantly amazed them, especially when I gave them our national hand-over-heart greeting. I even got the CEO of the pageant to do the same. Everyone admired the way Malaysians showed our respect to each other,” concluded Reshma happily.
Feeling truly empowered from the entire experience, Reshma aims to focus on her family first. With two major titles in hand, Reshma also hopes to start up her own home for underprivileged girls. She also aims to help women who are facing depression and those who are suicidal and lead them forward to a better and more positive life.
Her final message was to thank all men who respect and treat their wives as queens.
MEDICAL ENTREPRENEUR RESHMA PRAKASH MAKES MALAYSIA PROUD BY WINNING 2 MAJOR TITLES AT MRS INDIA WORLDWIDE
Story: Dragon Content Contributors: Benjomind Creative Agency Event Photos: Mrs India Worldwide Studio Photos: Baddogz Jin
Reshma crowned by Sylvie Rodgers as MIWW CEO Bharat K Bhramar (L) watches.
It is not often we see Malaysian delegates return home with major titles after competing in prestigious international pageants, but Dr Reshma Prakash, the CEO of a surgical medical clinic in Johore, made our nation proud by winning not just one but two major titles as well as a subsidiary title in Dubai, United Arab Emirates recently.
Reshma, a 33-year-old psychologist and a mother of three from Segamat, Johore was crowned Mrs India Worldwide Water 2024 and also Mrs India Worldwide South Asia 2024, at the Grand Final of the highly celebrated Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2024 pageant which was held at the classy Ajman Hotel in Dubai on 6th May 2024. Reshma also won the Mrs Elegant subsidiary title.
Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide is one of the leading beauty pageants from India which presents a beautiful platform for women across the globe who can participate and showcase their beauty regardless of their age. It has been conducting the event for more than a decade across the globe and celebrating women of the Indian diaspora from all over the world. The pageant showcases the remarkable talent, grace, and empowerment of women of Indian origin worldwide
The competition received more than 20,000 nominations this year, and after a gruelling international selection process, only 104 candidates were selected to compete at the world finals in Dubai this year. Reshma was the only delegate from Malaysia who qualified to represent our country after acing the difficult and demanding global selection process.
Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Water - Reshma Prakash.
Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Mrs South Asia 2024 - Reshma Prakash
The winners were selected by an esteemed panel of judges, chaired by Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide CEO Bharat K Bhramar. It included celebrity hair designer Sylvie Rodgers, actress Tisca Chopra, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2021 Amisha Sethi, International Zone Winner of Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2022 Reshma Vipin Nambiar, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2023 Aparajita Sinha, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2023 Fire Rakhi Saha, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide Earth 2023 Manjari Priya Gupta, ace fashion photographer Rony Kaula, and Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2022 Ruchika Malhotra. The show unfolded under the masterful choreography and direction of the talented Alison A Woodham, complemented by the exquisite styling expertise of Anjali Sahani.
The pageant’s grand finals were graced with the presence of esteemed personalities from the entertainment industry and accomplished professionals.
Reshma was born in Segamat to an Air Force engineer father and homemaker mother. She was originally raised in Jitra, Kedah as her father was based there. Reshma moved to Segamat, Johore after her dad passed away in an accident when she was just a 9 month-year-old baby. Her widowed mum started working at a plastic factory at age 28 to care for the young Reshma and her sister Prathisha. Reshma's mother studied nursing and became a nurse at the local haemodialysis centre in Segamat, to improve their situation.
“My amazing mother Prema Narayanan will always be my role model. She was both my mum, and my dad all rolled into one” expressed Reshma during a media interview session soon after her return from Dubai.
“She put us through school despite having very little money. We could not even attend tuition classes. Despite all the challenges, my sister graduated in financial accounting while I graduated in psychology. Both of us were scholar students. My sister is now with AIA as a manager and I joined Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johore Bahru when I was 23,” she added.
Reshma met her medical doctor husband Dr Raymond Rony at the hospital and got registered in 2015. She had her first boy through a C-section in 2017. She had her twins - a boy and a girl - the following year through normal childbirth but it was a difficult delivery. She lost a lot of blood and was rushed to ICU. But Reshma was determined to survive for her children and pulled through.
At the time Reshma had already started her clinic with her husband. Dedicated to her job, she returned to work a week after delivery to attend to her patients. It was important to her and was a great achievement for her to be able to help other women overcome their problems. She was motivated by her patients, many of whom were divorced or unmarried women.
Reshma has always had a taste for the stage and being in front of the camera even from her post-school days. She used to do some commercial modelling while working part-time as a waitress at McDonald's or KFC when she was only 19. She could earn between RM 150 to RM 200 for each photo shoot.
Reshma’s journey in the competition started when her husband signed her up last year. She was one of the two delegates picked from Malaysia to be part of the pre-selection round in March 2023.
Pre-selection was conducted through many Zoom meetings. She was given 13 tasks to complete that needed to be presented through Instagram. These tasks accounted for 60% of the total score.
As some of these tasks were tedious and specific, Reshma decided to engage Reuben James & Sam Joshua from Benjomind Creative Agency to assist her, as she was not active on social media and was not social media savvy at the time.
Some of the tasks assigned to her included celebrating Holi as the pageant focused on Indian culture and heritage. She also had to learn yoga and traditional dance. She also engaged Stephen, a professional videographer and photographer from SN Film in Klang to assist her in her preparation. Although partially blind, the dedicated Stephen drove from Klang to Johore Baru to help her with the content capture activities.
Although she is of Malayalee origin and only spoke her mother tongue, Tamil, English and Malay, she had to learn a bit of Hindi, to help her understand and communicate better in the pageant.
Due to limited time as a working adult with a tight schedule, she had to complete a week’s worth of tasks within 3 days. She even had to learn how to dance bhangra in under 2 hours.
All her tasks had to be completed perfectly, in fact, more than perfectly, otherwise, she felt she would not have qualified. For this, Reshma truly appreciated her dedicated team and all those who helped through the preparation stages and thanked them profusely.
Her preparations took more than six months. She had meetings with the organisers every Saturday from 10.00 pm to 2.00 am where she was trained and guided in all aspects of the competition such as diet, communications, advocacy etc. All her activities had to be tailored around her pageant program as she could not miss anything.
All her efforts paid off when she was announced as one of the finalists and the only Malaysian to make the cut to the world finals.
“My husband was my backbone throughout this entire process,” quipped Reshma.
She flew into Dubai on 27th April 2024, three days before the start of her pageant week to acclimatise herself to the environment, spend some family time and get a head start. She was accompanied by her husband, her three beautiful children and her mother - her cheerleaders throughout the competition.
On 30th April 2024, Reshma checked into the Hilton Dubai Al Seef, the official pageant week hotel. Her roommate was Dr Niraja Patel, a dentist from the USA.
Her pageant activities started immediately the following day on board a cruise ship where her introduction round was held. This was followed by ramp walk and choreography training, facilitated by the renowned Allison Woodham, founder of The Model Book of India, for the rest of the day, leaving them with less than 4 hours of sleep.
The second day of the competition saw her rising as early as 3.00 am to do her make-up and tie her saree on her own, for a professional photo shoot with Rony Kaula, a famous Bollywood photographer. This was followed by ramp walk training in the same hot pink saree for another 4 to 5 hours. At 6.00 pm, the delegates had another photo shoot in a black dress. They had to get back, shower in 5 minutes, get their make-up done in just 15 minutes and return quickly to the event venue, nearly a kilometre away to avoid being late.
The third day of the competition saw her heading to another photo shoot and pageant activity in orange resort wear. All delegates had to wear various costume jewellery and accessories during the shoot.
There was no let up to her pageant activities with the fourth day seeing her heading to another hotel for her swimwear photo shoot at 6.00 am. The task was more complicated as she had to find her way to the photo shoot venue as part of the competition. The shoot was not restrictive and delegates could wear a coverall during the shoot since it was a Mrs competition.
The physically fit and well-proportioned Reshma was comfortable with the shoot as she had a well-toned body thanks to her being a trained boxer, black belt holder in karate, a gymnast, a salsa dancer and a competitive MSSM athlete in 200m hurdles.
The final day of the competition was held at the Ajman Hotel. All delegates only had fruits and juice for breakfast. Her final outfit was a light blue evening gown by official fashion designer Anjali Shani. She also had to wear 3 to 4-inch heels and had help from a make-up artiste.
As the competition progressed, the delegates were trimmed from 104 to 60, this was when she received her Mrs Elegant subsidiary title.
She was then crowned Mrs South Asia and made it into the Top 22 despite being the only one from Malaysia. Even Singapore had 5 delegates while Hong Kong had 2.
When asked what qualities women should have in the question and answer round, she replied all women should have leadership qualities, earning her loud applause from the audience.
Despite being unwell and having thrown up backstage during the final rounds of the demanding competition, she was announced as one of the top five element finishers where she managed to hold herself together and spoke about the water element, emphasising that 70% of the earth was covered by water. It was also a coincidence that she had handed out mementoes with water elements to all delegates. Even her pageant video was based on the water element.
Unsurprisingly, Reshma was selected and crowned Mrs India Worldwide Water 2024, causing her family to erupt in excitement and joy for her amazing achievement on the world stage.
The main Mrs India Worldwide Earth 2024 title was won by Mousumi Sinha Dutta, from Amsterdam.
Proudly Malaysian Reshma Praksah is Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Water.
Mrs India Worldwide 2024 Water, Mrs South Asia & Mrs Elegant.
“I am so proud and happy to have worked hard and won these two prestigious titles and a subsidiary title for my country. Representing Malaysia on the international stage was huge,” shared Reshma excitedly."
“My biggest challenges throughout the competition were learning to engage on social media, learning Hindi to understand and communicate better with the organisers and other delegates, managing my time and coping with the lack of sleep,” she added.
“I made 100 contacts from 42 countries while there, all talented women, who taught me a lot throughout the competition. They came from all walks of life, religions, diverse Indian ethnicities, lifestyles, ages and professions. Even a grandmother of two competed. I truly bow my heads to them,” expanded Reshma.
“I enjoyed my stay and visit to Dubai. It’s a very safe city, especially for women. No one bothers or disturbs you wherever you travel in the city. People are friendly. All delegates were also friendly no matter where they came from. We enjoyed having Dubai chai and sharing tea. I even saw a mini Kerala in Dubai with many Malayalees going about their business. It was truly an amazing experience visiting this city and being in this challenging but meaningful competition,” continued Reshma.
“When I was there I always spoke about the unity of Malaysia and encouraged my fellow delegates to visit Malaysia,” she proudly proclaimed.
“I always addressed people properly and politely when I was in Dubai. It constantly amazed them, especially when I gave them our national hand-over-heart greeting. I even got the CEO of the pageant to do the same. Everyone admired the way Malaysians showed our respect to each other,” concluded Reshma happily.
Feeling truly empowered from the entire experience, Reshma aims to focus on her family first. With two major titles in hand, Reshma also hopes to start up her own home for underprivileged girls. She also aims to help women who are facing depression and those who are suicidal and lead them forward to a better and more positive life.
Her final message was to thank all men who respect and treat their wives as queens.
