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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| photo =
| caption = Femina Miss India 2016
| venue = Yash Raj Studios, [[Mumbai]], [[India]]
| date = April 9, 2016
| acts = [[Tiger Shroff]], [[Varun Dhawan]]
| entrants = 21
| broadcaster = [[Colors (TV channel)]], [[Zoom (Indian TV channel)]]
| winner =
| photogenic = Sushruthi krishna [[Bangalore]]
| congeniality = Natasha Singh [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]]
|best national costume = [[Roshmitha Harimurthy]] [[Bangalore]]
|presenters=[[Karan Johar]], [[Manish Paul]], [[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh khan]], [[Shahid Kapoor]] performance Act choreographed by inder sharma a bollywood dance choreographer
|award1 label = Beauty with a purpose
|award1 =Sushruthi Krishna
| before = [[Femina Miss India 2015|2015]]
| next = [[Femina Miss India 2017|2017]]
}}

The 53rd edition of the [[Femina Miss India]] beauty pageant was held on 9 April 2016 in [[Mumbai]]. Twenty-one contestants competed for the titles of Femina Miss India 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-india/contestants/Miss-India-2016/contestantslist/51341456.cms|title=Miss India 2016 - 2016 - Miss India Contestants - Miss India - Beauty Pageants - Indiatimes|website=Femina Miss India}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Aditi Arya]] crowned [[Priyadarshini Chatterjee]] as her successor. She represented India at [[Miss World 2016]], Sushruthi Krishna was crowned as the 1st Runner Up by [[Aafreen Vaz]], and [[Pankhuri Gidwani]] was crowned as the 2nd Runner Up by [[Vartika Singh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.femina.in/beauty-pageants/miss-india/miss-india-contestants/2016/miss-india-2016/pankhuri-gidwani/contestantprofile/51341672.cms|title=Pankhuri Gidwani profile}}</ref>

[[Priyadarshini Chatterjee]] who won Femina Miss India World 2016 represented India at [[Miss World 2016]] held in [[United States|USA]] and placed in the top 20.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/fashion/miss-puerto-rico-stephanie-del-valle-crowned-miss-world-2016-miss-india-priyadarshini-chatterjee-makes-it-to-top-20-4434984/|title=Miss Puerto Rico crowned Miss World 2016; Miss India makes it to Top 20|date=December 19, 2016}}</ref> [[Pankhuri Gidwani]] who won Femina Miss India 2nd Runner Up 2016 was designated Miss Grand India 2016 and represented India at Miss Grand International 2016 held in [[United States|USA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/glamour-pankhuri-gidwani-miss-grand-international/20161019.htm|title=Has India sent a winner to Miss Grand International?|website=Rediff}}</ref>

After the Femina Miss India 2016 pageant, [[Lopamudra Raut]] who was not a contestant at Femina Miss India 2016, but had been a contestant in the [[Femina Miss India 2013|2013]] and [[Femina Miss India 2014|2014]] editions, was later designated by [[Femina Miss India|Femina]] as India's representative at Miss United Continents 2016 held in [[Ecuador]] where she placed as 2nd Runner Up.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/fashion/lopamudra-raut-is-second-runner-up-in-miss-united-continents-3050822/|title=India's Lopamudra Raut is second runner-up in Miss United Continents|date=September 26, 2016}}</ref>

==Final results==
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* {{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} The contestant Won in an International pageant.
* {{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} The contestant was a Runner-up in an International pageant.
* {{Color box|#FFFACD|border=darkgray}} The contestant was a Semi-Finalist in an International pageant.
* {{Color box|white|border=darkgray}} Unplaced
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! style="width:280px;background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"| Placement
! style="width:250px;background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"| Contestant
! style="width:250px;background-color:#787878;color:#FFFFFF;"| International placement
|-align="center" style="background:#FFFACD; font-weight: bold"
! Miss India 2016
|
* [[Priyadarshini Chatterjee]]
| Top 20
|-align="center" style="background:white; font-weight: bold"
! Miss India Grand International 2016
|
* Pankhuri Gidwani
| Unplaced
|-align="center" style="background:#FFFF66; font-weight: bold"
! Miss India United Continents 2016
|
* [[Lopamudra Raut]] '''*'''
| 2nd Runner-up
|-
! 1st Runner-up
|
* Sushruthi Krishna
|-
! Top 5
|
* [[Roshmitha Harimurthy]]
* Navpreet Kaur
|-
! Top 10
|
* Dnyanda Shringarpure
* Natasha Singh
* [[Gayathri Reddy]]
* Vaishnavi Patwardhan
* Aradhana Buragohain
|-
|}
'''*''': Although Lopamudra Raut was not a contestant in Femina Miss India 2016, she was later appointed by Femina as the representative of India in Miss United Continents 2016.

==Contestants==
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Contestant !! Age !! Height !! City
|-
|Adya Niraj || 18 || {{height|m=1.70}} || [[Ranchi]]
|-
|Aishwarya Sheoran || 19 || {{height|m=1.86}} || [[New Delhi]]
|-
|Akshita Yadav || 21 || {{height|m=1.69}} || [[New Delhi]]
|-
|Aneesha Nitin Rane || 18 || {{height|m=1.69}} || [[Kannur]]
|-
|Aradhana Buragohain || 24 || {{height|m=1.73}} || [[Dibrugarh]]
|-
|Dimple Paul || 25 || {{height|m=1.70}} || [[Mumbai]]
|-
|Dnyanda Shringarpure || 17 || {{height|m=1.73}} || [[Pune]]
|-
|[[Gayathri Reddy]] || 20 || {{height|m=1.68}} || [[Chennai]]
|-
|Natasha Singh || 23 || {{height|m=1.70}} || [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur, HP]]
|-
|Navpreet Kaur || 18 || {{height|m=1.72}} || [[Adampur]]
|-
|Nazneen Shaik|| 20 || {{height|m=1.73}} || [[Surat]]
|-
|Niharika Anand || 22 || {{height|m=1.71}} || [[New Delhi]]
|-
|Pankhuri Gidwani || 18 || {{height|m=1.76}} || [[Lucknow]]
|-
|[[Priyadarshini Chatterjee]] ||19 || {{height|m=1.72}} || [[Dhubri]]
|-
|Priyanka Singh ||24 || {{height|m=1.78}} || [[Jaipur]]
|-
|Rajkanya Baruah ||23 || {{height|m=1.68}} || [[Guwahati]]
|-
|[[Roshmitha Harimurthy]] || 21|| {{height|m=1.74}} || [[Bangalore]]
|-
|Sanjana GL ||22 || {{height|m=1.73}} || [[Bangalore]]
|-
|Sushruthi Krishna ||22 || {{height|m=1.69}} || [[Bangalore]]
|-
|Vaishnavi Patwardhan ||21 || {{height|m=1.73}} || [[Pune]]
|-
|Zeba Baig || 23|| {{height|m=1.69}} || [[Indore]]
|}

==Judging panel==
* [[Amy Jackson]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Kabir Khan (director)|Kabir Khan]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Yami Gautam]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Arjun Kapoor]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Ekta Kapoor]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Sanjay Dutt]]<ref name="India Today 2016">{{cite web | title=Delhi girl Priyadarshini Chatterjee crowned Miss India World 2016 | website=[[India Today]] | date=April 10, 2016 | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/what-s-hot/story/delhi-girl-priyadarshini-chatterjee-miss-india-world-2016-sushruthi-krishna-shah-rukh-khan-karan-johar-manish-paul-317245-2016-04-10 | access-date=April 16, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Sania Mirza]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Manish Malhotra]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Mireia Lalaguna]] - [[Miss World 2015]] from [[Spain]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>
* [[Shane Peacock (fashion designer)|Shane Peacock]]<ref name="India Today 2016"/>

==Presenters==
* [[Manish Paul]] - Host
* [[Karan Johar]] - Host
* [[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh Khan]] - Final Results
* [[Shahid Kapoor]]
* [[Varun Dhawan]] - Introducing Top 5

==City pageant winners==
* Winners of the City Pageants will get a direct entry to fbb Femina Miss India 2016.

===Femina Miss India Bangalore===
* [[Femina Miss India Bangalore|Femina Miss India Bangalore 2016]] winners
{|class="wikitable"
!Winner
!1st Runner Up
!2nd Runner Up
|-roshni
|[[Roshmitha Harimurthy]]
|Elizabeth Thadikaran
|Sanjana GL
|-
|}

===Femina Miss India Kolkata===
* [[Femina Miss India|Femina Miss India Kolkata 2016]] winners
{|class="wikitable"
!Winner
!1st Runner Up
!2nd Runner Up
|-roshni
|Rajkanya Baruah
|Sushmita Roy
|Adya Niraj
|-
|}

===Femina Miss India Delhi===
* [[Femina Miss India Delhi|Femina Miss India Delhi 2016]] winners
{|class="wikitable"
!Winner
!1st Runner Up
!2nd Runner Up
|-roshni
|Priyadarshini Chatterjee
|Natasha Singh
|Rinki Ghildiyal
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-india/photos/unveiling-the-fbb-femina-miss-india-2016-finalists/eventshow/51333944.cms Femina Miss India 2016 Finalists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312015253/http://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-india/photos/unveiling-the-fbb-femina-miss-india-2016-finalists/eventshow/51333944.cms |date=2016-03-12 }}

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