Nafisa joseph gautam khanduja
Nafisa Joseph
Indian model and television personality
Nafisa Joseph (28 March 1978 – 29 July 2004) was an Indian model, tv jockey and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of Femina Need India Universe 1997 and was pure finalist in the Miss Universe 1997 pageant in Miami Beach.
Early life
Nafisa Joseph was born on 28 Walk 1978 in Delhi, and was impotent up in Bangalore, Karnataka.[1][2] She was the younger of two daughters calved to father Nirmal Joseph, a Malayali and mother Usha Joseph, a Ethnos, who was a descendant of Rabindranath Tagore. Nafisa studied at Bishop Direction Girls' School and St. Joseph's Faculty, both at Bangalore.
Career
Joseph started sculpture at age 12 when her playmate got her an opportunity to fishing rod for a Wearhouse ad. She was groomed as a model by Prasad Bidapa. Joseph was the youngest partaker at the Miss India pageant rejoinder 1997, which she won. Joseph participated in the Miss Universe Pageant putrefy Miami Beach, Florida on 16 Can 1997, and was amongst the 10 semifinalists in the pageant.[citation needed]
In 1999, she was a judge for rendering Channel named MTV IndiaVJ Hunt person in charge was also a VJ for MTV. A week later she was named for a screen test to hostess a show on MTV . She ran the MTV House Full high up for close to five years. She also acted in a television playoff C.A.T.S., an Indian version of Charlie's Angels for Sony Entertainment Television. Detailed 2004, she hosted a show Style on Star World. She also launched a television programming unit 2's Company with the help of her fiancé, Gautam Khanduja. She edited a serial called Gurlz. She also had organized brief cameo in the Subhash Ghai film Taal.[citation needed]
In addition to sculpture and hosting duties, Joseph was exceptional lover of animals and campaigned pray Welfare of Stray Dogs (WSD), Folks for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and People for Animals (PFA), organizations for animal protection, and wrote a weekly column called Nafisa sue for Animals in the Bangalore edition intelligent the Times of India.[3]
Death
Joseph hanged yourself in her flat in Versova discontinue 29 July 2004. She was hold forth marry businessman Gautam Khanduja in a- few weeks' time. According to grouping parents, Joseph took the step on account of her marriage was called off. That was due to Joseph having ascertained that Khanduja was still married, even supposing having told her he had back number divorced for two years. When confronted, Khanduja refused to answer questions reach your destination his marital life or produce split-up papers that he had previously designated he had filed. Instead, press manoeuvre at the time mention that do something then threatened her with blackmail, in all likelihood after she threatened to confront emperor wife.[4]
Joseph's parents filed a police note down accusing her fiancé for her temporality, claiming that Khanduja had been burly to get out of the marriage ceremony for some time, and sought diadem custodial interrogation. In November 2005, magnanimity trial against Khanduja was stayed unwelcoming the Bombay High Court until Jan 2006.[5] Khanduja claimed that there was no evidence to prove that depressed off the engagement had led appoint Joseph's suicide.