“I can’t believe I am here. I can’t express it in words but it is a beautiful moment. I feel my moment is here,” said Dhillon to reporters after being crowned Femina Miss India.

She’s is the daughter of an Indian Army officer who attended Patiala’s Punjabi University to pursue media studies, She loves photography, swimming, horse  riding and dreams of setting up a production house. Like most beauty queens, she is not averse to acting in Bollywood films and hopes to get into directing eventually. However, it’s not her Bollywood dreams that won her the Miss India 2013 title. Her altruistic response to the question: ‘what would be her only regret if she were to die the following day?’ brought in the crown.

Her response? “The only thing I would regret would be not having done as much for society as I would like to. Issues of women’s empowerment and child labour and other social evils are a big concern.”