Chandigarh Girl - Aanchal Kumar

Aanchal has been around the scene since quite a while now , aanchal was the Gladrags Mega Model contest winner back in 1999. The glamour industry was then starting to come in its own, and aanchal got established pretty quicky. She tried her hand very successfully at music videos , she seems to have stayed away from bollywood or no roles have come her way. Bollywood is kinda unfair on models i guess, most models have started out & ended their careers by doing bgrade sleaze flicks.

Aanchal Kumar Mehra

Aanchal Kumar

Aanchal has featured in numerous music videos , this from bluffmaster is one of my favourites.

Aanchal Kumar - Chandigarh Girl

Aanchal Kumar on Her Wardrobe Malfunction

Aanchal Kumar recounts an incident four years ago. Her sari came off just as she was to step onto the ramp. There was little she could do, except wrap the sari all around her. "People thought it was a new style. That's the best thing about fashion... it can be bizarre," says Aanchal.

Super Model Aanchal Kumar Mehra

Aanchal Kumar - Indian Supermodel

Aanchal Kumar - Indian Supermodel

Aanchal Kumar on dance "To be honest, I’m not a fabulous dancer but enjoy doing my thing when the DJ plays my favourite tracks, like the recent Candy shop and Don’t Phunk with My Heart. I guess the word that best describes my dance moves is cute. I’m shy and inhibited on the floor, but incorporate a lot of hand and waist movement."

Aanchal Kumar !!!

Aanchal Kumar - Vital Stats
Height: 5' 8" (172 cms)
Weight: 49kgs
Bust: 34" (86. cms)
Hips: 35" (88. cms)
Shoe Size: 8
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Light-brown

Aanchal Kumar on Foreign Models -

“If I can be accepted at Milan, New York or Germany, why should the foreigners not be accepted here? I have lost out on assignments because a junior Indian model accepted to work for much less. So, why blame the foreigners? But yes, what goes in their favour is the fact that they are uninhibited. So, blame our culture which tarnishes our reputation the moment we bare our skin a bit,” she says.
“Though in general, I have heard many models complain over the last two years that they are losing out work to foreigners, I personally haven’t been affected as I work in all the three streams -- advertising, shows and print campaigns. But I also feel that producers should not go for foreign models just because they have white skin and blonde hair. They should choose a model according to her caliber, whichever nationality she enjoys.”

Aanchal Kumar on body

"The well-toned but voluptuous look is the trend these days."
"If you want to showcase the clothes on ramp, you have to look after your body. For me, the lean look works. But, what works for a certain person depends on their body type."

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.

Aanchal Kumar

Supermod & Superbod Aanchal Kumar is a Gladrags Mega Model winner & naturaly one of the most wanted models on the ramp circuit. She has been in a lot of music videos lately , most prominently in the bluffmaster video along with abhishek bacchan.