# Femina Miss India 2016

The 53rd edition of the Femina Miss India beauty pageant was held on 9 April 2016 in Mumbai. Twenty-one contestants competed for the titles of Femina Miss India 2016. Aditi Arya crowned Priyadarshini Chatterjee as her successor. She represented India at Miss World 2016, Sushruthi Krishna was crowned as the 1st Runner Up by Aafreen Vaz, and Pankhuri Gidwani was crowned as the 2nd Runner Up by Vartika Singh.
Priyadarshini Chatterjee who won Femina Miss India World 2016 represented India at Miss World 2016 held in USA and placed in the top 20. Pankhuri Gidwani who won Femina Miss India 2nd Runner Up 2016 was designated Miss Grand India 2016 and represented India at Miss Grand International 2016 held in USA.
After the Femina Miss India 2016 pageant, Lopamudra Raut who was not a contestant at Femina Miss India 2016, but had been a contestant in the 2013 and 2014 editions, was later designated by Femina as India's representative at Miss United Continents 2016 held in Ecuador where she placed as 2nd Runner Up.

## Final results
### Color keys

| Placement | Contestant | International placement |
| Miss India 2016 | Priyadarshini Chatterjee | Top 20 |
| Miss India Grand International 2016 | Pankhuri Gidwani | Unplaced |
| Miss India United Continents 2016 | Lopamudra Raut * | 2nd Runner-up |
| 1st Runner-up | Sushruthi Krishna |
| Top 5 | Roshmitha Harimurthy Navpreet Kaur |
| Top 10 | Dnyanda Shringarpure Natasha Singh Gayathri Reddy Vaishnavi Patwardhan Aradhana Buragohain |
*: Although Lopamudra Raut was not a contestant in Femina Miss India 2016, she was later appointed by Femina as the representative of India in Miss United Continents 2016.

## Contestants

| Contestant | Age | Height | City |
| Adya Niraj | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Ranchi |
| Aishwarya Sheoran | 19 | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | New Delhi |
| Akshita Yadav | 21 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | New Delhi |
| Aneesha Nitin Rane | 18 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Kannur |
| Aradhana Buragohain | 24 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Dibrugarh |
| Dimple Paul | 25 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Mumbai |
| Dnyanda Shringarpure | 17 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Pune |
| Gayathri Reddy | 20 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Chennai |
| Natasha Singh | 23 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Bilaspur, HP |
| Navpreet Kaur | 18 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Adampur |
| Nazneen Shaik | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Surat |
| Niharika Anand | 22 | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | New Delhi |
| Pankhuri Gidwani | 18 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Lucknow |
| Priyadarshini Chatterjee | 19 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Dhubri |
| Priyanka Singh | 24 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Jaipur |
| Rajkanya Baruah | 23 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Guwahati |
| Roshmitha Harimurthy | 21 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Bangalore |
| Sanjana GL | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Bangalore |
| Sushruthi Krishna | 22 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Bangalore |
| Vaishnavi Patwardhan | 21 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Pune |
| Zeba Baig | 23 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Indore |

## Judging panel

* Amy Jackson
* Kabir Khan
* Yami Gautam
* Arjun Kapoor
* Ekta Kapoor
* Sanjay Dutt
* Sania Mirza
* Manish Malhotra
* Mireia Lalaguna - Miss World 2015 from Spain
* Shane Peacock

## Presenters

* Manish Paul - Host
* Karan Johar - Host
* Shahrukh Khan - Final Results
* Shahid Kapoor
* Varun Dhawan - Introducing Top 5

## City pageant winners

* Winners of the City Pageants will get a direct entry to fbb Femina Miss India 2016.

### Femina Miss India Bangalore

* Femina Miss India Bangalore 2016 winners
| Winner | 1st Runner Up | 2nd Runner Up |
| Roshmitha Harimurthy | Elizabeth Thadikaran | Sanjana GL |

### Femina Miss India Kolkata

* Femina Miss India Kolkata 2016 winners
| Winner | 1st Runner Up | 2nd Runner Up |
| Rajkanya Baruah | Sushmita Roy | Adya Niraj |

### Femina Miss India Delhi

* Femina Miss India Delhi 2016 winners
| Winner | 1st Runner Up | 2nd Runner Up |
| Priyadarshini Chatterjee | Natasha Singh | Rinki Ghildiyal |