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Yukta Inderlal Mookhey is an Indian civic activist and the winner of Miss World 1999 pageant. She is the fourth Indian woman to win Miss World and was previously crowned as Femina Miss India World in 1999. She is a former model and actress, and has worked in Hindi cinema, Tamil cinema, and Telugu cinema films.
Mookhey proceeded to the succeeding round, where all her fellow Top 5 delegates were asked the same question - “In the context of the recent controversy, if you were Chelsea Clinton, what is the single most important advice, you as a daughter would you give to your parents Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and why?”, to which she answered:
At the end of the event, she was crowned as Miss India World 1999 by the outgoing titleholder Annie Thomas, giving her the right to represent India at the Miss World 1999 contest.
At the end of the event, Mookhey was crowned as Miss World 1999 by her predecessor Linor Abargil from Israel. The first runner-up title was won by Martina Thorogood from Venezuela, followed by the second runner-up, Sonia Raciti of South Africa. Mookhey also won the Asia & Oceania's Queen of Beauty Award during the Miss World contest. Mookhey became the fourth woman from India to win Miss World after Reita Faria in 1966, Aishwarya Rai in 1994 and Diana Hayden in 1997.
She has voiced against illegal child labour carried out in India's firecracker industries, which is an offence under the Indian law. She has also aided the people with deafness, from marginalised and low-income segment of the society. She expressed - “I have spent my time learning the Indian sign language because I feel that hearing impaired people have so much latent creativity and are hampered only by their inability to communicate. I would like to help them by drawing attention to this issue.”
Mookhey is an environmentalist, and has participated in various clean drives and social movements to prevent deforestation. In 2018, she joined a campaign to prevent illegal tree cutting taking place at the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, to pave way for road and metro constructions. Alt URL During the movement, she stated - “I don't see any reason behind constructing road and metro from the sanctuary. The metro can be constructed underground and the road can be made elsewhere. Humans are not capable of making of what ‘Mother Earth’ can do. So we are just asking to stop the works and also stop cutting the trees.” She also consigned a letter to the Pune Municipal Corporation's Heritage Cell, to include the bird sanctuary in the list of national heritage sites. Alt URL
She supports the Swachh Kalyani Nagar initiative in Pune, and had campaigned the households to process their waste effectively through segregation and recycling, ensuring minimum to zero garbage generation from individual societies.
Her brother Kanwal Mookhey is a businessman and is married to Indian television actress Karishma Randhawa.
In July 2013, Mookhey accused her husband and in-laws of subjecting her to domestic violence and harassment, and a FIR was registered under Section 498A (cruelty and harassment) and Section 377 (unnatural sex) of the Indian Penal Code. In June 2014, the couple obtained a consensual divorce.
Personal life
On 7 September 2008, Mookhey got engaged to Prince Tuli, a New York-based businessman and financial consultant at a ceremony held at the Grand Maratha in Mumbai. The marriage was held on 2 November 2008 in a traditional Sikh ceremony at a Nagpur Gurudwara followed by a reception. They have one son together.
Career
Mookhey entered the film industry in 2001 through the Tamil language movie Poovellam Un Vasam, where she appeared in a song titled "Yukta Mookhey". She made her Bollywood debut with Pyaasa in 2002 starring with Aftab Shivdasani. The film proved to be a flop at the box office. Mookhey was cast in Market but had to drop out due to an injury. In 2003, she signed Kab Kyon Kahan and Hum Teeno, but both films where later shelved. She was later signed up for the 2004 release , but had to drop the project. In 2005, she acted in two films, Memsahab and Love in Japan. In 2006, she appeared in the music video for "Kathputali". In 2010, she acted in Odia film Swayamsiddha, where she played a Maoism named Swayamsiddha.
Filmography
Films
2001 Poovellam Un Vasam Guest appearance Tamil language film 2002 Ishq Na Karna Aya Self Short film Pyaasa Sheetal Hindi film 2005 Dil Main Jaanam Self Short film 2006 Katputtli Anju Love in Japan Guest appearance 2007 Kab Kahaba Tu I Love You Bhojpuri film 2008 Memsahab Anjali 2010 Swayamsiddha Shreya / Swayamsidha Odia film 2019 Good Newwz IVF Center Patient Hindi film
Television
1999 Femina Miss India 1999 Herself / contestant Miss World 1999 Herself / contestant / winner International pageant 2000 International Indian Film Awards 2000 Host Award ceremony Miss World 2000 Herself/ Reigning Miss World International pageant 2006 Jodi Kamaal Ki Herself Game show (participated with her father, Inderlal Mookhey)
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