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Mehr Jesia

Birthdate	August 11, 1969 (1969-08-11) (age 40)
Birth location	India
Spouse(s)	Arjun Rampal
Height	5'10" (1.78m)
Weight	108 lbs.(49kg)
Eye colour	Brown
Hair colour	Black
Ethnicity	Indian

Mehr Jesia (born August 11, 1969), known since her marriage as Mehr Rampal, was an international model from India during the early 90's. She is married to Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Film career 3 References

[edit] Early life

Jesia was born into a Parsi family in 1969.

[edit] Career

Mehr was discovered in 1986 when photographer Faroukh Jussawalla suggested that she take part in the Miss India contest. A week later she took the title, and went on to represent her country in the Miss Universe 1986 pageant. As part of a sponsorship deal, Mehr had to work with Bombay Dyeing for a year after the contest at no charge. She has attributed much of her career trajectory since that first year to Mickey Contractor. According to her, "He never let me look the same in any two campaigns."^{[citation needed]}

• Her first ad film was for Lakme's winter creme campaign. Her other campaigns include Vimal, Bombay Dyeing, OCM, Nivea, Palmolive, Gleem, Forhans, Philips and Campa Cola.

• Runway Model, Achla Sachdev, taught Mehr how to catwalk gracefully in order to get rid of her awkward walk. This training paid off when Mehr, along with Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman, became the highest paid runway model in India. Achala, Mehr, Namrata and Madhu would often compete to be the designer favourite.

• Jose Fonseca (proprietor of Models 1) asked her to represent the agency in London, but she came back after a short stint saying she was homesick.

• Mehr has officially retired, and runs a modeling school and agency. She started a modeling agency because: "We models are treated like queens but we have to do everything ourselves - from reading the contracts to following up on payments. If everything is handled by the agency then the model is free to do her own thing. That is what I want to do. Make life easier for the models."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Film career

Mehr and Arjun produced the film I See You (released on 29 December 2006) through their production company Chasing Ganesha. The film starred Arjun Rampal, Vipasha Agarwal, Sonali Kulkarni and Boman Irani. Bollywood Superstars Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan did a cameo in the film.

I See You was shot entirely in London. It was a remake of the Hollywood film Just Like Heaven. Unfortunately, the film received unfavorable reviews and did not do well at the box office.

[edit] References

Preceded by Juhi Chawla

Miss India 1985

Succeeded by Mehr Jesia