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The first-ever Miss Global Malayalee Pageant is planned to be organized during the Global Malayalee Festival at Crown Plaza Hotel, Kochi, India from August 15th-16th, 2025. With active participation, collaboration and coordination by community and business leaders from 53 countries across the globe, the Global Malayalee Festival is shaping up to be an exciting celebration of the culture, traditions and accomplishments of the Global Malayalee community at the heart of Kerala.
Global Malayalee Festival is being organized by the Malayalee Festival Federation, a Not for Profit organization registered under Section 8 of Indian Companies Act, as a charitable organization.
In addition to the First Ever Global Malayalee Trade, Technology and Investment Meet, the first ever Miss Global Malayalee Pageant will be held on August 15. Preliminary Miss Global Malayalee Pageants will be held in all the participating countries during the months of April, May and June with the objective of selecting the finalists, who will compete at the grand finale of the pageant in Kochi on August 15th, 2025. The organizers state that Miss Global Malayalee North India will be held in Delhi and Miss Global Malayalee South India will be held in Kochi.
The Miss Global Malayalee Pageant is a personality contest open to all young women of Malayalee origin, between the age of 18 and 25, born between August 15, 2007, and August 15, 2025. At least one parent of the contestant must be of Malayalee origin, and that they must be willing to travel to Kochi and stay at Crown Plaza Hotel on August14, 15 and 16.
The contestants will be judged in four categories, based on one’s Poise, Personality, Presentation, Performance, Style, Appearance, Intelligence and Confidence.
The first category will be on one’s appearance in one’s choice of dress, testing one’s Poise and Confidence. This will be followed by a 3-minute presentation of one’s talents, to judge one’s presentation and performance.
The third category will be one’s appearance in Sari, Salvar or Mundu to test one’s style and appearance.
For the final contest in Kochi to select the Miss Global Malayalee, there will be a final step after the top five high scorers are selected. The fourth and final category is a question-and-answer form, where a question selected by the candidate from a box of questions, a way of measuring one’s intelligence and confidence.
Judges shall score each contestant on each of these four categories and the highest scorer will be the winner of the coveted Miss Global Malayalee Crown. Those scoring the second highest will be the first runner up and the third highest will be the second runner up.
Miss Global Malayalee pageant gives an opportunity for the young girls of Malayalee origin to come together and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Kerala. The organizers are urging all those who are interested in participating in the pageant, whether they win or lose, to come and attend the finale of the pageant in Kochi.
“The vison of the Global Malayalee Festival is to uphold and share the rich cultural traditions of Malayalees,” said Andrew Papapchen, the Chief Executive Officer. “This will help build a Global Cohesive Malayalee community that will not only just embrace, but actively perpetuate the traditions, nurturing our ties to cultural roots. We seek to instill a deep-seated sense of identity and belonging, preserving the ethnic, cultural and social essence of the Malayalee and ensuring that aspects of this identity and unity remain central to spiritual and actual ways, which should be vibrant to our future generations of the Global Malayalees.”
According to Abdullah Manjeri, the Managing Director of Global Malayalee Festival, “The mission is to engage and become a bridge between the growing diaspora of Malayalees living outside Kerala and the heritage that moulds every Malayaleein essence by organizing events like the Trade, Technology and Investment Meet, Miss Global Malayalee Pageant and Global Malayalee Ratna Awards, as we realize that the unity makes success possible. We also strive to contribute to charitable activities in Kerala, with the primary aim of helping underprivileged people and providing them with necessary assistance.”
According to the organizers, the Global Malayalee Festival is open to all Malayalees around the world and they urge everyone to join in and be part of the great Global Festival of Malayalees as it offers an opportunity to all professionals, business people, artists, academicians, technocrats, new generation others to come together and uphold the unity and harmony of Malayalees.
For more information and to join in the pageant, please visit the website of global Malayalee festival.
