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Actress Parvati Melton
NRI California beauty, Parvati got offer in Bollywood
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NRI beauty Parvati Melton became the heroine in the recent Raja-starrer Vennela.She is now reportedly getting a lot of offers from Bollywood, including a film with Hrithik Roshan for Suresh Productions.
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One on One with New actress Parvati Melton
Who is Parvati Melton?
She is 17 and her first film Vennela is just a prelude to her immense potential as an actress.
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Parvati has no apprehensions about how she would be perceived in the film.On the contrary, she finds it quite a challenge playing the lead role and working with artistes of great calibre.She was always enthralled by the magic of cinema.Films did not happen by fluke for me.
"Actually, I don't quite go by established norms when it comes to signing films.It has more to do with the director I am working with and the kind of challenge the role involves," she says.
Parvati Melton, that's her name and she unravels the history behind it."My father is a German and my mother a North Indian.Apparently he was the one who gave me the name Parvati.
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"Parvati has a bright future ahead of her.
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This is the fourth and last article in our series profiling four outstanding Peralta students, Parvati Melton from Vista Community College.
Parvati Melton, 17, Vista Community College
Transfer University: UC Berkeley
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To read through her resume and listen to Parvati Melton talk about her life is to wonder whether she has an extra twenty-four hours that most people don't have.
Since Melton enrolled at Vista College when she was 16 as an early graduate from Emeryville High School, her life has included going to school full-time, teaching, modeling, performing, doing test shoots, acting, doing interviews for magazines and winning beauty pageants.She currently holds the United States title for modeling with the Miss India Le Visage USA beauty competition, as well as numerous other titles in dancing and figure skating.
Recently, she was awarded $5,000 expense paid trip to Beirut to represent Southeast Asian women in an international beauty and talent pageant.
"I live by the quote that the world will never inspire you," Melton said, "You have to inspire yourself.
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"The pageants are not just about beauty," Melton said, "They're about the way you present yourself, about your confidence.What excites me the most is the communication, the fact of not knowing how the night is going to end and competing with so many talented, beautiful women."
But beauty pageants are not all Melton plans for her future.She intends to go to UC Berkeley for a degree in business administration.
"Business interests me because I have very good people skills and I would be good at international relations," Melton said."I feel I have talent in that area, even if I have a passion for my other work, I think it's important to have that foundation too."
At the end of her four-page resume packed with awards and experience, Melton attaches a personal statement that ends with her personal philosophy of life.
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Parvati Melton's father is a German and her mother a North Indian