Yukta Mookhey, Miss World, Model, actress, - Biography Yukta Mukhi
Miss India, Miss World 1999
Height: 5 foot 11
Weight 65 - 70 KG
Born October 7, 1977, Mumbai, (formerly Bombay) India
Yukta Mookhey is an Indian model and actress. A native of Mumbai, she was crowned Miss World in December 1999 at the Olympia theatre in London.
The Middle Class family she grew up in included the Mother Aroona Father Inder Lal, or Aruna and Inderlal, plus Younger Brother Kanwal.
Yukta was a Zoology Graduate at Kelkar College, and had done course to work in computer software programming. Her family is from north India but she was educated in the Gulf because her father's work took the family there. Yukta's mother Aruna runs a grooming workshop, Swiss Chalet, at Santa Cruz here while her father Inderlal is the managing director of Ragz Clothing Company. Yukta was studying zoology at Kelkar college, prior to winning the crown. She has studied classical music for three years. She likes prawns in garlic sauce, adores Brad Pitt, and Audrey Hepburn.
Yukta was chosen for the title from among 94 hopefuls in a pageant which saw Miss Venezuela Martina Thorogood and Miss South Africa Sonia Raciti win the second and third places respectively. During the question round, Mookhey told the judges that Thai food was her favourite and that she would love to go to France.
Her favourite dish is Prawns in Garlic sauce.
She has said she likes Thai and Indian food, and would like to visit Paris.
Her fave movie seven and Lagaan and Zubeidaa. Her fave magazines India Today and Femina.
Now, she acts in Hindi movies. Her only release so far is Pyaasa. For a while, she opted to write books but then came back to acting. She still resides in Mumbai.
She says, I welcome every learning experience in life with a smile. I have the determination and perseverance to achieve my goals.
Movies she has been in incude Pyar Karke Dekho Na, Hum Tum Aur Woh, Bandhak, and Pyaasa.
Before Miss World,
she had said she wanted to have a career in Computing and mass communication,
but now she has chosen acting and model work.
This
site was written in December 2006.
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