Thursday, August 28, 2008

Audition round of Miss Millionaire Bangladesh Beauty Contest held

Audition round of 'Miss Millionaire Bang-ladesh,' a beauty contest, was held at a studio in Gulshan in the city on August.

One hundred contestants participated in the audition round where 50 were selected for the next round. The next round, grooming session and selection round, will be held soon, said Abdul Latif Apurbo, CEO of Apurbo.com and Chief Coordinator of the contest.

He said, "Before one year this contest was planned. Advertisement of the contest began on Channel 1 on April 5 this year and registration has been started by SMS. About 9,000 beauties from six divisional cities attained. Of them, a panel of judges selected 300 beauties initially. Then screen test, photo session, vocal test and dental test were held from July 28. After 10-day programmes, a day-long exhibition of the photos of the selected 100 beauties were on displayed at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on August 13. Main aim of the exhibition was to give the opportunity to the general people to cast their votes and opinions on the contest."

On August 15, at the audition round, dance artiste Shamim Ara Nipa, presenter Abdun Nur Tushar, actor and director Shahidul Alam Sachchu, photographer Chanchal Mahmud, photographer YJ Moon from Korea, Principal of Radiant Institute of Design Nasrin Chowdhury and Creative Director of the advertisement agency Interspeed Kawshik Dey from India were present as judges at the audition round, said the organisers.

Grooming session will be held in various locations of Bangladesh, Thailand and Sri Lanka. Then 'Miss Millionaire Bangladesh' will be selected through gala round. The winner of the contest will get one million cash and scope to work in different media.

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