actress and pfmi world 2008 parvathy omnakuttan talks to toi on her lucknow visit about the hits and misses in her lifemiss india gave me great exposure talk about her miss india moment and parvathy gets visibly excited to have gotten the opportunity miss india gave me great exposure and a platform to speak out what i feel as an individual and as a citizen of this country and i think the experience was even more enriching when i went to johannesburg for the miss world pageant where i got to interact with so many girls coming from different backgrounds and cultures she says but the fact that she lost the title by a whisker and had to settle for the first runner up position how did that feel had i won the miss world crown my entire life would have changed the height of success always matters pt usha is a world renowned name in athletics but she famously lost out on an olympic medal by 1100th of a second if she had won that medal things would have been obviously different for her so i believe there is definitely a superior force above us which controls things we are destined to achieve what we are i wont say i was not upset yes i was for i didnt win the pageant and it took time to come to terms with it but it is important to accept the way things are and we should not brood over the past but learn from it fortunately my family has been very supportive of whatever i have done so far and they are proud of what i have achieved she saysi chose acting so is bollywood a natural progression for a miss india after i won miss india the kind of exposure that i received was tremendous the only step that looked rational to me was movies the fact is that everybody in the industry closely watches the pageant and if they think there is potential in someone they get them into the industry there have been many before me some of whom did well others who didnt i know many who are happy doing fashion shows and didnt opt for movies so its about making choices and i chose acting but parvathy doesnt condone all the choices she made for one choosing united six as her debut vehicle when i heard the story of united six it seemed interesting to me i was a newcomer and there was no one i could have looked up to for advice but having said that even the biggest of stars have acted in movies which havent done well everyone makes mistakes but the point is to learn from them thats the reason i have been very selective about projects lately she saysi want to work with new directors however parvathys debut film in tamil billa 2 with ajith was a blockbuster and she has some serious observations on the workings of the tamil