Sushmita Sen has become a great actress. She is known for her extraordinary talent and offbeat roles. The former Miss Universe winner marked a major milestone when she returned to the silver screen in June 2020 with the thriller Aarya, impressing audiences and critics alike with her riveting and powerful performance. Looking back at her Miss Universe journey, Sushmita Sen recalls how she learned table manners after winning the beauty pageant.

In an interview with Curly Tales, Sushmita shared an incident from her life when she was sent to Mexico as a VIP for an official dinner and she found herself sitting at the end of the table surrounded by 20 men and she The skills are only minimal in English. She shared, “I was at the head of the table, I’m 18 years old, and I barely speak English. I was sorting everything out, and my travel manager, Barbara, was sitting to my right, and since then Barbara has been It’s man. I’m hungry, and I smile to my tour manager and say “I’m hungry.” And then I lean over like, “I’m hungry, Barbara.” “She said, ‘They are too, you’re the main guest, you need to get started.’”

Continuing her story, Sushmita Sen revealed that the Mexican tourism minister sitting to her left helped her prepare a seven-course meal. The experience forced her to equip herself with table manners, “This is when I went to Barbara, I came back to the Miss Universe organization and I said I need to learn because I felt so out of place and I didn’t want to feel like this again, so them……”

Talking about an important tip her etiquette teacher told her, which is to “eat before going out and then behave gracefully while dining”, Sushmita Sen said, “One thing I learned from her is, ‘Pet bhar kar kha kar jaao ghar se (eat well at home and then go for a formal dinner) so that you don’t have the urge to eat at the table and you can say “no thank you” gracefully and they will think you are following strict control diet.”

The first season of Sushmita Sen’s Aarya solidified its critical acclaim with an International Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.

“Aarya” is created and co-directed by filmmaker Ram Madhvani and co-produced by Amita Madhvani, Ram Madhvani Films and Endemol Shine India. It has a strong cast including Sushmita Sen, Ila Arun, Sikandar Kher, Indraneil Sengupta, Vikas Kumar and others.