[Assam] Assams only model Monikangkana Dutta relocates to New York

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

        Model seeks bite of Big Apple
- Assam’s Monikangkana Dutta relocates to New York after Paris stint     PANKAJ SHARMA                 Monikangkana at a fashion show   Guwahati, Dec. 29: Sorry, Bollywood. Hello, New York! 
  After setting the ramp on fire in Paris, Assam’s only model of international fame — Monikangkana Dutta — has set her sights on New York and the coveted tag of supermodel. “To find a place in the New York fashion scene is the biggest challenge for me at this moment,” disclosed Monikangkana at her Khanapara veterinary campus residence during a brief visit to the city last week. 
  Monikangkana — who burst on to the national scene in 2002 after winning a statewide beauty contest — revealed that she had received a couple of offers to act in Bollywood movies from directors Vishal Bharadwaj and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. 
  “Acting in movies is not my cup of tea. The offers were very lucrative, but I said no,” she added. 
  Monikangkana was adjudged the first runner-up in the 2002 Miss Luit Contest — organised by the North East Beauty Forum in Guwahati — and after that there was no looking back for this svelte model. She got her first real break when she took part in the French agency Metropolitan’s Top Model Contest in 2003. As one of the top five contestants that year, Dutta won a one-year contract with the agency that took her to Paris in January 2004. 
  But now she is pitching for every model’s dream — the supermodel tag. 
  During her brief stay in New York, the star model has already caught the eye of the Big Apple’s fashion designers, model co-ordinators and choreographers. 
  On her return to New York after a brief vacation in the city, Monikangkana is bracing up for a show at Bradley in the US next month. “Life is very tough at the international level but I firmly believe that if I am good enough, I will achieve it anyway,” she said. 
  During her stay in Paris, she had walked the ramp for Chanel and Christian Dior and top designer John Galliano. 
  After working independently for a couple of years, Dutta last year signed up with Matrix, the agency owned by photographer Atul Kasbekar, who shot the Kingfisher calendar. 

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