Mr. India World

Not to be confused with Mister India Pageant organised by Grasim Industries and later Haywards 5000 that sent its winner to Mister World from 1996 to 2010.
Mr India World
Predecessor Grasim Mister India
Formation 2014
Type Beauty Pageant
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra
Location
Membership
Mister World
Official language
Hindi, English
Parent organisation
The Times Group
Website beautypageants.indiatimes.com/mrindia.cms

Mr India World is a national beauty pageant that selects its winner to compete in Mister World pageant. The pageant is biennial started in 2014. Earlier Grasim Industries held the franchise for Mister World in India. In 2007, Haywards 5000 took the franchise for Mister World and organised Haywards 5000 Mr India World 2007 Pageant to select India's representative at Mister World 2007. Since 2014 The Times Group[1] owns this franchise. It also holds the franchise for Miss World India and Miss Universe India Miss Diva in India.

The current Mister World India is Vishnu Raj S Menon of Bangalore. He was declared as Peter England Mr.India 2016 on 24 November 2016. He is expected to represent India at Mister Supranational 2017 as there is no Mister World pageant next year.[2]Viren Barman and Altamash Faraz were declared as 1st Runner-Up and 2nd Runner-Up of Mr.India 2016 respectively.

History

Adonis-Graviera Contest was held in 1996 to select India' representative at the very first edition of Mister World in 1996.[3] The first ever Mister India was Bikram Saluja,[4] from Punjab. He won the Adonis-Graviera Contest 1996 and represented India at the very first edition of Mister World held in Istanbul, Turkey. Tom Nuyens won the contest and Bikram finished in top 10.

The Pageant

The second edition of Mister India World was also organised by Graviera. Sachin Khurana from New Delhi won the contest and represented India at Mister World 1998. In 2007, Haywards 50000 took the franchise of Mister World and Haywards 5000 Mr India World 2007 pageant was organised. Kawaljit Anand Singh was named Haywards 5000 Mr India World.[5]

In 2014, The Times Group (also known as The Times Group) acquired the rights to send India's representatives to the Mister World pageant.

Mr India World Winners

Year Mr India World 1st Runner Up 2nd Runner Up Notes
2016 Vishnu Raj Menon[6] Viren Barman [7] Altamash Faraz [8] Held on July 23, in Club Royalty, Mumbai
2015 Rohit Khandelwal Rahul Rajshekharan Nair Prateek Gujral
2014 Prateik Jain Puneet Beniwal Bharat Raj Held on May 08, in D'Bell, Parel, Mumbai
2012 Taher Ali Not Awarded Not Awarded
2010 Inder Bajwa Not Awarded Not Awarded
2008 Pravesh Rana Vazeil Trivedi Irshad Waghbakriwala
2007 Kawaljit Anand Singh Freddy Daruwala Mohsin Akhtar Held on March 7 in Hotel Intercontinental the Grand, Mumbai
2007 Bharat Kundra Jobi Varghese Umar Sharif Grasim Mr India
2006 Yatin Sonic Nishant Dahia Hanif Hilal
2005 Viraf Patel Kushal Tandon Karan Hukku
2004 Sunil Mann Prashant Raj Sachdev Piyush Vig
2003 Rajneesh Duggal Vikrant Mahajan Satyam Shankar Sahai
2002 Raghu Mukherjee Jaspal Sehgal Sainik Rao
2001 Vivan Bhatena Savio Bruto Da Costa Kanwaljeet Singh Anand
2000 Aryan Vaid Ikram Sandhu Ajay Malik
1999 Abhijit Sanyal Rakesh Bapat Vishal Singh Yadav
1998 Diwaker Pundir Unknown Unknown
1997 Deepinder Gill Unknown Unknown
1996 Sachin Khurana Cary Edwards Not Awarded
1995 Tarun Raghavan Not Awarded Not Awarded
1994 Bikram Saluja Ravi Mopakrishnan Not awarded

Representatives to Mister World

Winner Runner Up Finalist/Semifinalist Unplaced
Year Mister World India State Ranking Special Awards
2016 Rohit Khandelwal Hyderabad
Mister World 2016
Multimedia award
Mister World Talent
2014 Prateik Jain Bangalore
Top 10
Continental King of Asia and Oceania
1st Runner up-Multimedia award

Shot put winner
The Tug-O-War Team Winner
Top 24 - Extreme sports
Top 21 - Talent Round
2012 Taher Ali[9] Mumbai
Unplaced
2010 Inder Bajwa[10] Punjab Top 15 Mister World Top Model - Top 20
Mister World Talent - Top 20
2007 Kawaljit Anand Singh Assam Top 12
1998 Sachin Khurana New Delhi
Unplaced
1996 Bikram Saluja[11] Punjab Top 10

See also

References

  1. "Miss India Organisation launches Mr India World 2014". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  2. "Rohit Khandelwal from India wins Mister World 2016". Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  3. "Bikram Saluja wins Adonis - Graviera contest". intoday.in. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  4. "Seasons India : : Bikram Saluja". seasonsindia.com. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  5. "Haywards 5000 Mr India World is Kawaljit Anand". moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  6. "Hrithik Roshan announces Mr India 2016 winner". NEWSKARNATAKA. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  7. "Hrithik Roshan announces Mr India 2016 winner". NEWSKARNATAKA. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  8. "Hrithik Roshan announces Mr India 2016 winner". NEWSKARNATAKA. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  9. "Mister World India 2012: Taher Ali". mensxp.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  10. "SuperModel Alert: Inder Bajwa". news.avstv.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  11. "Top 100 Handsome Indian Men-Bikram Saluja". webindia123.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.

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