Aanchal Kumar !!!!

Aanchal Kumar

Aanchal Kumar, our own Chandigarh girl and now one of the top models of India, may be a familiar face all over the nation, but very few people know that behind the dazzling face lies a sharp brain that once aspired to be an IAS officer. However, after tonight’s “Baazi Kiski” — one of the prestigious quiz shows hosted by famous Bollywood actor Ashutosh Rana on Zee TV — the situation is going to be changed as Aanchal in tonight’s celebrity special episode will be walking away with the jackpot, beating four other celebrities.

“Aanchal is a combination of brain and beauty,” says her mother Sharan Kumar who is waiting for the show tonight to witness her daughter’s victory. “Even in her school days she used to be a topper and had scored 91 per cent in her board examination from St. Stephen’s School here,” she said.

Tonight’s show was apparently not much of challenge to Aanchal. For this episode, Aanchal was intimated at 1 p.m. and had to rush to the shooting sight at two and without any preparation she beat others that included Dipancha Sharma (who starred in “16 December”) and cricketers Yuv Raj and Wahid Akram, said the proud mother.

Aanchal was not at home to share the moments of glory with her parents as she is busy with her B.A final exams which she is doing from Mithi Bhai College, Mumbai. “Aanchal has inherited my brain and her mother’s looks,” says Mr S. Kumar, an elated father and MBA who has retired as a Marketing Manager from a reputed multinational company. “Had she not been a model she would have tried for IAS,” he said.

As the jackpot has brought her both fame and money, this young Scorpion is cool about the whole thing, taking everything in her stride. “I am happy,” said Aanchal in a telephonic conversation with Chandigarh Tribune today. And she attributed her general knowledge to her voracious reading habit she cultivated during her school days. “Though these days I do not get much time to read, I watch TV channels like BBC, National Geographic, Animal Planets and CNN to keep myself well-informed,” she said.

Aanchal entered the glamour world after winning the Gladrags Mega Model in 1999. Besides working in a number of ramp shows and catalogues with top designers like Ritu Kumar and Manish Malhotra, Aanchal has worked in vedio albums like Jagjit Singh’s “Aaina”, Hans Raj Hans’ “Mukhra Tumhara” and also with Jazzy B.

So what was the best part of winning? “I had booked a Santro for myself a couple of days ago but now that I have won a Maruti car, I no longer need to buy the car I had booked,” she added. Tonight as her parents and relatives will be glued to TV at 9 pm to watch her win the wonder prizes, Aanchal will be preparing for her next paper tomorrow.