# Miss Diva 2020

Miss Diva 2020 was the 8th edition of the Miss Diva beauty pageant held on 22 February 2020. A total of 20 contestants were shortlisted from auditions in India. Vartika Singh crowned Adline Castelino as her successor and she represented India at Miss Universe 2020. Shefali Sood crowned Aavriti Choudhary as her successor and she represented India at Miss Supranational 2021. Miss Diva 2018 Runner up Roshni Sheoran crowned Neha Jaiswal as her successor. Anntonia Porsild, Miss Supranational 2019 attended the event. This was the first edition of Miss Diva under Liva Fluid Fashion.
On 16 May 2021, Adline Castelino represented India at Miss Universe 2020 held at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, United States and placed 3rd runner-up. This was India's highest placement in Miss Universe since Lara Dutta who won the competition in 2000 and broke the 20-year drought placing the Runner-up ever since Celina Jaitley placed the 4th Runner-up in 2001.

## Background

In 2019, Liva Fluid Fashion acquired the title sponsorship rights for Miss Diva. On 11 November 2019, the organization announced in a press conference that the pageant will be held in February 2020. Contestants will be selected through auditions in various cities across the country. Those shortlisted contestants will go through final round of auditions in Mumbai to get top finalists who will compete at pageant. Miss Universe 2000, Lara Dutta will serve as the mentor.

### Format

A new format was introduced by the organization for this edition. Top 10 candidates were selected based on their performance in the preliminary segment and closed door interview. The Top 10 delegates had an opportunity to speak about themselves in an opening statement. They further competed in swimsuit and evening gown rounds to determine the Final 5. A common question was asked to all the Top 5 delegates. They were finalized into Top 3.

## Contestants

The following were the 20 contestants participating in the Liva Miss Diva 2020:

### Color key

* Declared as Winner
* Ended as Runner-up
* Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
| Nu. | Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown | Placement |
| 1 | Aavriti Choudhary | 21 | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | Jabalpur | Miss Supranational India 2021 |
| 2 | Adline Castelino | 21 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Udupi | Miss Universe India 2020 |
| 3 | Anisha Sharma | 23 | 5 ft 5.6 in (1.67 m) | Nagpur | Top 5 |
| 4 | Archana Ravi | 23 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Changanassery | Top 10 |
| 5 | Arshina Sumbul | 21 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Jaipur | Top 10 |
| 6 | Farhat Firoza | 24 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Bilaspur | |
| 7 | Lavanya Gunasekar | 24 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Salem | |
| 8 | Malashya Kashyap | 18 | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | Udalguri | Top 10 |
| 9 | Megha Sachdeva | 22 | 5 ft 5.25 in (1.66 m) | Moradabad | |
| 10 | Neha Jaiswal | 23 | 5 ft 6.5 in (1.69 m) | Pune | Miss Diva Runner-up |
| 11 | Nishi Bharadwaj | 25 | 5 ft 6.5 in (1.69 m) | Mahendragarh | |
| 12 | Payal Sharma | 24 | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | Nagpur | |
| 13 | Rashalika Sabharwal | 25 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Patiala | |
| 14 | Roshni Sharma | 21 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Mumbai | Top 5 |
| 15 | Rushali Yadav | 22 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Ajmer | Top 10 |
| 16 | Shivangi Sharma | 20 | 5 ft 5.5 in (1.66 m) | Dehradun | |
| 17 | Shreya Poonja | 19 | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | New Delhi | |
| 18 | Suruthi Periyasamy | 25 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Salem | |
| 19 | Tanya Subramanian | 23 | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | New Delhi | |
| 20 | Vaishnavi Ganesh | 18 | 5 ft 9.6 in (1.77 m) | Bangalore | Top 10 |

## Grand finale judges

* Anntonia Porsild - Miss Supranational 2019 from Thailand
* Asha Bhat - Miss Supranational 2014 from India
* Anil Kapoor - Bollywood Actor
* Aditya Roy Kapoor - Bollywood Actor
* Lara Dutta - Miss Universe 2000
* Nikhil Mehra - Designer
* Shivan Bhatiya - Fashion Designer
* Narresh Kukreja - Fashion Designer
* Gavin Miguel - Designer

## Selection of participants

Twenty delegates would be selected to compete in the grand finale. Among them, thirteen participants were selected from various rounds of city audition. Five finalists were selected through Campus Princess 2019 auditions. The winner of Miss North-East Diva, a regional contest conducted by the Miss India Organization, for aspirants from the Northeast India gets direct entry in the Top 20. This competition was won by Malashya Kashyap.

### City Finalists

Following are the finalists selected in auditions conducted at various cities of India. They would be further shortlisted and finalized as the contestants of Liva Miss Diva 2020 pageant. Few delegates selected by the Miss India Organization competed in the Wildcard round in Mumbai. The winner of this round would be selected with a combination of public voting & internal jury members.

#### Color key

* Shortlisted as Miss Diva 2020 contestant.
* Advanced to Top 20 by winning the Wildcard public vote.
| Lucknow | Hyderabad | Chennai | Kolkata | Indore | Pune | Bangalore | Jaipur | Chandigarh | Delhi | Mumbai |
| Anushka Kumar | Aishwarya S | Adline Castelino | Akshita Singh | Aavriti Choudhary | Mehek Vinayak | Anjali Anish | Ankita Trivedi | Devianna Ahluwalia | Akanksha Choudhary | Alankrita Shahi |
| Ishika Bisht | Bella Lolage | Aishwarya Dinesh | Meghna Bose | Alisha Khan | Naina Sharma | Lavanya Gunasekar | Kanchan Khatana | Jasmine Singh | Arshiya Sharma | Aneesha Rane |
| Komal Khillare | Bhavna Sirpa | Farhat Firoza | Megna Mukherjee | Anisha Sharma | Natasha Das | Manmeet Kaur | Rubal Shekhawat | Shreya Suri | Devika Mahajan | Archana Ravi |
| Rashalika Sabharwal | Harshita Sharma | Neha Jha | Rashmi Madhuri | Monika Dwivedi | Nimisha Chavan | Rashmitha R | Rushali Yadav | Shyna | Elix Chaudhary | Naveli Deshmukh |
| Simran Singh | Madhushree Gupta | Prithivee | × | Ridhima Firke | Niyamat Nilgiriwala | R Vishnupriya | Samridhi Ahlawat | Simran Kapoor | Ilika Tyagi | Payal Sharma |
| Sukraty Saxena | Sri Lakshmi | Rubeiya SK | × | Senhapriya Roy | Sachi Kudale | Simran Pareek | Simran Sharma | Ushtu Chiber | Lavanya John | Ritika Nayak |
| × | Sri Sai Reddy | × | × | Tanya Mittal | Sakshi Bhosale | Vaishnavi Ganesh | × | × | Lavanya Sangwan | Roshini Sharma |
| × | Soundarya Gowda | × | × | Tejal Patil | Tanisha Pal | × | × | × | Ritika Nayak | Shivangi Sharma |
| × | Taruna Choudhary | × | × | × | Vaibhavi Sharma | × | × | × | Shreya Bahukhandi | Sruthi Periyasamy |
| × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | Tanya Subramanian | × |