Miss Chennai is a popular beauty pageant contest

Beauty contest

A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...

 organised by VIBA on behalf of Miss Chennai Foundation since 1999 in Chennai district, Tamil Nadu

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This is a list of winners of Miss Chennai contests.

Winners

Year	Miss Chennai	1st Runner-up	2nd Runner-up	Other Notable Participants
2007	Samyuktha S	Rohini Singh	Swapna Rajasekar	Ann Anra
2005-06	Deepika Vasudevan	Taruna Chugani	Bidushi Dash	Vasundra
2004	Deepa Rajan	Ketki Chandravarkar	Pooja Priyanka	Ramya Subramanian
2003	Bindya	Nina Mehta	Aashritha
2002	Sitara Devanandan	Aparna Pillai Aparna Pillai Aparna Pillai, better known mononymously as Aparna is a Tamil film actress, who has appeared in Tamil films. She is probably best known for her performances in Nenjil Jil Jil and Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan.- Filmography :- References :...	Sruthi Hari
2001	Anurithi Chikkerur	Ratikka Venugopal	Divya Subramanian
2000	Pooja Nair	Medha	Divya Bhatnagar
1999	Trisha Krishnan Trisha Krishnan Trisha Krishnan is an Indian film actress and model, who primarily appears in Tamil and Telugu language films, but has also appeared in Hindi language films. She was noticed after winning several beauty pageants like the Miss Madras contest , which marked her entry into filmdom...	Maheshwari	Sandhya Prakash

The finalists in Miss Chennai contest win a straight entry as the fashion ambassador of the city and country to the Miss Intercontinental, and other participants have the opportunity to be picked to represent India at the World Miss University as well as the Petite International. The participants in Miss Chennai contests are rigorously trained by a number of experts — a diction teacher, a fitness expert, professional models who teach them to catwalk and a dentist who perfect their smiles. They even have sessions on yoga and meditation.

The Miss Chennai contest is usually held in May each year and serves as a platform for the aspiring ladies to enter into the field of films, modelling, fashion designing and singing. The event has sixteen participants who will compete for the honour and goodies worth Rs.100,000. http://www.indiafashionweek.com/news/shownews.php?id=24028