Mrs Asia USA, one of the country's largest beauty pageants for married women, has crowned Radhika Rane Bhosale of Pune as the runner-up.
Radhika competed in the tournament, which drew competitors from 48 Asian countries. She is the vice president of SGS Telekom, a technology company based in the United States. The candidates were judged on their community service, national costume competition, dance, and evening gown competition in Virgelia Productions' beauty pageant.
Radhika has an engineering bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration. Her hometown is Mumbai, where she was born and raised. She has worked as a model for a variety of brands in the United States for a long time. Amar Bhosale, the son of Pune businessman Shirish and Sharmila Bhosale, is a senior security engineer at Facebook. They have a three-year-old child.
Radhika intends to use her crown to promote girls' education around the world. Radhika claims that her costume showcased the rich Indian culture in addition to raising awareness for the problem. Her outfit was inspired by Rani Laxmibai, a warrior queen who is reputed to have fought tremendous battles while carrying her baby on her back.
She said, “my costume showcased half warrior with armour and weapons and half princess with traditional royal Maharashtrian jewellery, showing the beautiful as well as fierce and strong side of Indian women. I dedicated this costume to all women around the globe who manage to take along both family and career under all situations”.
Radhika wishes to instil self-assurance in women. “I believe that beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself and want every little girl to know that they are unique and must only strive to be the best confident version of themselves.”
She added, “I am extremely thankful to my family for their immense support, sponsors for believing in me, the honorable Mayor of Sunnyvale, USA, Larry Klein, and last, but not least the royalty himself, Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale for his blessings and best wishes for the competition”.
