Mister India World

Mister India World
Predecessor Grasim Mister India
Formation 2014
Type Beauty Pageant
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra
Location
Membership
Mister World
Mister Supranational
Official language
Hindi, English
Parent organisation
 The Times Group
Website beautypageants.indiatimes.com/mrindia.cms

Mister India World also known as Mister India[1] is a national beauty pageant that selects its winner to compete in Mister World pageant.[2] The pageant is annual started in 2014.[2]

Earlier Grasim Industries and later Haywards organised the annual Mister India that selected India's representative to Mister World from 1994 to 2012. Since 2014 The Times Group[2] owns this franchise. It also holds the franchise for Miss World India and Miss Universe India (Miss Diva) in India.[2]

In 2016 The Times Group also started the franchise of Mister Supranational India concurrently held with Mr World India.[3] In the first inception Jitesh Thakur was sent to the international pageant where he bagged the position of the 2nd runner up.[4][5]

The current Mister World India is Jitesh Singh Deo of Lucknow. He was crowned on 14 December 2017 in Mumbai.[1] He is expected to represent India at Mister World 2020 as there is no Mister World pageant in 2019.[6] Abhi Khajuria and Pavan Rao were declared as 1st Runner-Up and 2nd Runner-Up of Mr. India 2017 respectively.[1]

History

Adonis-Graviera Contest was held in 1996 to select India' representative at the very first edition of Mister World in 1996.[7] The first ever Mister India was Bikram Saluja,[8] from Punjab. He won the Adonis-Graviera Contest 1996 and represented India at the very first edition of Mister World held in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996.[7] Tom Nuyens won the contest and Bikram finished in top 10.[7] 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.

Grasim Industries organized the annual pageant franchise from 1994 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2012 that selected India's representative to Mister World. In 2007, Haywards 5000 took over the franchise for Mister World and organised Haywards 5000 Mr India World 2007 that selected Kawaljit Anand Singh as India's representative at Mister World 2007.[9] However Grasim retook the ownership of franchise in 2010.

In 2014, The Times Group acquired the rights to send India's representatives to the Mister World pageant.[2]

The Pageant

The event is held in Mumbai annually. 16 contestants from across India are selected for the annual pageant. Among them one is crowned Mr India who will represent India to the biennial international Mister World and one is crowned Mister Supranational India who will represent India at the annual Mister Supranational held in Poland.[10][4]

Mr India World Winners

YearMr India World1st Runner Up2nd Runner UpOrganizerNotes
2017 Jitesh Singh Deo[1] Abhi Khajuria[1] Pavan Rao[1] Peter England[1] Held on December 14, in Castella de Aguada, Mumbai[1]
2016 Vishnu Raj Menon[11] Viren Barman [12] Altamash Faraz [13] Times Held on July 23, in Club Royalty, Mumbai
2015 Rohit Khandelwal[10] Rahul Rajshekharan Nair Prateek Gujral Times Rohit Khandelwal Won Mister World 2016 in London[10]
2014 Prateik Jain Puneet Beniwal Bharat Raj Times Held on May 08, in D'Bell, Parel, Mumbai
2012 Taher Ali Not Awarded Not Awarded Grasim
2010 Inder Bajwa Not Awarded Not Awarded Grasim
2008 Pravesh Rana Vazeil Trivedi Irshad Waghbakriwala Haywards
2007 Kawaljit Anand Singh Freddy Daruwala Mohsin Akhtar Mir Haywards Held on March 7 in Hotel Intercontinental the Grand, Mumbai
2007 Bharat Kundra Jobi Varghese Umar Sharif Grasim
2006 sandeep malviya Arvind Thakur Hanif Hilal Grasim
2005 Viraf Patel Kushal Tandon Karan Hukku Grasim
2004 Sunil Mann Prashant Raj Sachdev Piyush Vig Grasim
2003 Rajneesh Duggal Vikrant Mahajan Satyam Shankar Sahai Grasim
2002 Raghu Mukherjee Jaspal Sehgal Sainik Rao Grasim
2001 Vivan Bhatena Savio Bruto Da Costa Kanwaljeet Singh Anand Grasim
2000 Aryan Vaid Ikram Sandhu Ajay Malik Grasim
1999 Abhijit Sanyal Rakesh Bapat Vishal Singh Yadav Grasim
1998 Diwaker Pundir Unknown Unknown Grasim
1997 Deepinder Gill Unknown Unknown Grasim
1996 Sachin Khurana Cary Edwards Not Awarded Grasim
1995 Tarun Raghavan Not Awarded Not Awarded Grasim
1994 Bikram Saluja Ravi Mopakrishnan Not awarded Grasim

* Note 1: In 1995 the first ever Mr India pageant was held called Graviera Adnois Man of Year to select India's representative to Mister World. In 1996 the title was changed to Grasim Mr India and the winner of Grasim Mr India 1996, Sachin Khurana represented India Mister World 1998. From 1997 to 2003 the winner of Grasim Mister India represented India at Mr. International.

  • Note 2: In the years, 2010 and 2012 no runners-up were awarded.
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Representatives to Mister World

Winner Runner Up Finalist/Semifinalist Unplaced
Year Mister World India State Ranking Special Awards
2020 Jitesh Singh Deo Uttar Pradesh TBA
2018 Vishnu Raj Menon Kerala
2016 Rohit Khandelwal Telangana
Mister World 2016
Multimedia award
2014 Prateik Jain Karnataka
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[15] Maharashtra
Unplaced
2010 Inder Bajwa[16] 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[17] Punjab Top 10

Representatives at Mister Supranational

Year Mister Supranational India State Ranking Special Awards
2018 Prathamesh Maulingkar[3] Goa[3] TBA
2017 Altamash Faraz[5] New Delhi[5] Top 10[5] Mister Supranational Asia & Oceania - Winner
Best in Swimsuit - 1st Runner-up
Extreme Race - 1st Runner-up
Best in Streetwear - 3rd Runner-up[5]
2016 Jitesh Naresh Thakur[4] Rajasthan[4]
2nd Runner-up[4]
Mister Supranational Asia - Winner
Top Model - Winner
Mister Mobstar - 3rd Runner-up[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Lucknow's Jitesh Singh Deo Wins Mr. India 2017 Title, Will Represent India At Mr. World 2020". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Miss India Organisation launches Mr India World 2014". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mr India 2017: Prathamesh Maulingkar's journey from Football to Fitness model". MumbaiLive.com. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jitesh Thakur bags second runner-up spot at Mister Supranational 2016". Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Altamash Faraz to represent India at Mister Supranational 2017". Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Meet Peter England Mr India 2017 Jitesh Singh Deo". indiatimes.com.
  7. 1 2 3 "Bikram Saluja wins Adonis - Graviera contest". intoday.in. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Seasons India : : Bikram Saluja". seasonsindia.com. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  9. ↑ "Kawaljit Anand is Haywards 5000 Mr India". oneindia.com. 17 March 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 "Rohit Khandelwal from India wins Mister World 2016". Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  11. ↑ "Hrithik Roshan announces Mr India 2016 winner". NEWSKARNATAKA. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  12. ↑ "Hrithik Roshan announces Mr India 2016 winner". NEWSKARNATAKA. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  13. ↑ "Hrithik Roshan announces Mr India 2016 winner". NEWSKARNATAKA. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  14. ↑ {cite web|url=https://www.mensxp.com/mr-india-2014/archives/22493-15-mr-india-winners-you-need-to-know-about-p1.html%7Ctitle=Mr. India Winners You Need To Know About|website=MensXP.com|date=21 April 2014|accessdate=27 October 2017}
  15. ↑ "Mister World India 2012: Taher Ali". mensxp.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  16. ↑ "SuperModel Alert: Inder Bajwa". news.avstv.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  17. ↑ "Top 100 Handsome Indian Men-Bikram Saluja". webindia123.com. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
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