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List of Indian representatives at international male beauty pageants

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India selects its delegates for international male beauty pageants through several national competitions held throughout the year. Winners and runners-up from these events are sent to represent the nation at various prestigious international competitions.

Currently, three primary national pageants stand out: Times Mister India, Rubaru Mister India, and Mister India Supranational. Each selects contestants through their own processes, culminating in the coronation of winners and runners-up.

These national titles serve as gateways to various international platforms. Winners and runners-up may compete in renowned pageants like Mister World, Mister Supranational, Mister International, Mister Global, Manhunt International, and Man of the World, alongside several other prominent regional events.[1][2][3][4]

History

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Early years and franchise development (1994–2012)

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The inaugural Mister India World pageant (1994), organized by Adonis-Graviera, selected Bikram Saluja as India's representative for the first-ever Mister World in 1996.[5] The same year (1994), the Gladrags Manhunt and Megamodel Contest chose Rajat Bedi to represent India at the inaugural Manhunt International, where he achieved the 4th Runner-Up placement.[5] Graviera continued to organize the Mister India World pageant, with Sachin Khurana winning the 1998 edition and representing India at the international competition. Grasim Mr. India acquired the franchise for Mister World in 1994, holding it until 2007. They returned as franchise holders from 2010 to 2012, during which they actively sent delegates to the international pageant. Haywards 5000 briefly held the franchise ownership in 2007, sending Kawaljit Anand Singh to Mister World.[5][6]

Ownership transition and recent developments (since 2014)

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The Times Group acquired the rights to send India's representatives to Mister World in 2014, continuing the legacy established by previous franchise holders.[1] In 2023, a new national organization named Mister Supranational India, led by Himadri Bhatnagar, acquired the rights to send a representative to Mister Supranational 2023. Their first delegate, Raj Sunil Singh, participated in the 2023 pageant but did not advance to the semi-finals, marking the end of India's consecutive placements at the competition since its inaugural edition in 2016.

Winners of major international Beauty pageant
Pageant Titles Winning year(s) Winner(s)
Mister World 1
2016 Rohit Khandelwal
Mister Supranational
2018 Prathamesh Maulingkar
Manhunt International
2001 Rajeev Singh
Mister Global
2023 Jason Dylan Bretfelean

Times Mister India titleholders

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For full list and details, see Mister India.
Year Mister India World Mister India Supranational 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up
2021 None Rahul Rajasekharan None None
2017 Jitesh Singh Deo Prathamesh Maulingkar Abhi Khajuria Pavan Rao
Year Mister India 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up Organiser
2024 Gokul Ganesan Not Awarded Times
2016 Vishnu Raj Menon[7] Viren Barman [8] Altamash Faraz [9] Peter England[10]
2015 Rohit Khandelwal Rahul Rajasekharan Nair Prateek Gujral Times
2014 Prateik Jain Puneet Beniwal Bharat Raj
2012 Taher Ali Not Awarded Grasim
2010 Inder Bajwa Not Awarded
2008 Pravesh Rana Vazeil Trivedi Irshad Waghbakriwala Haywards
2007[11] Kawaljit Anand Singh Freddy Daruwala Mohsin Akhtar Mir
2007[12] Bharat Kundra Jobi Varghese Umar Sharif Grasim
2006[13] 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 Raqesh Bapat Vishal Yadav
1998 Diwakar Pundir
Unknown
1997 Deepinder Gill
1996 Sachin Khurana Cary Edwards Not Awarded
1995 Tarun Raghavan Not Awarded
1994 Bikram Saluja Ravi Mopakrishnan
  • 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.[14]
  • Note 3: IN 2021, due to the pandemic, a virtual pageant was organized to only select the representative to the Mister Supranational pageant.

Rubaru Mister India titleholders

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Rubaru Mister India is India's oldest and the largest national male pageant organised by the Rubaru Group. Following are the list of titleholders of the pageant.

Year International Global Manhunt International Tourism World Asia-Pacific National Universe Caballero Universal Grand International Universe International Model International Glam International Heritage International Friendship International
2024 Vishnu Chaudhary Gemin Darin Jomin D’souza Mushthaqh Mohammad None Sagar Shah Adithya Subramanian None None Abhishek Yadav Viraaj Babbar Harsh Rathod Gaurish Singh
2023 Shashwat Dwivedi Jason Dylan Bretfelean None Mukesh Ravi Abhishek Mane Tachang Phassang Anish Jain Tushar Kapoor Badal Bist Reshab Chetri Vysan A Nair Sukhbir Ashat Daksh Chaudhary
2022 None Chena Ram Choudhary None Mithun Debbarma None Biswajit Roy Kramik Yadav Nehal Patil None None None Banner Lanamai James Daksh Chaudhary

Representatives to major beauty pageants

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Color key
  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as Runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
  •   Competitions to be held/awaiting result

Manhunt International

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Representatives to Manhut International is being sent by Gladrags organisation through Gladrags Manhunt and Megamodel Contest.

Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Jomin D’souza
2023 No delagate sent
2022 Rakesh Nongmaithem Manipur Unplaced
2020 Mayur Gangwani Karnataka 4th Runner-up
2018 Prasad Cariappa Karnataka Unplaced
2017 Takshanin Ram Maharashtra Unplaced
  • Best Participant Award
2016 Grewal Gurmehar New Delhi Unplaced
2012 Arry Dabas Haryana Top 16
  • Mister Photogenic - Winner
2011 Shashvat Seth Maharashtra Unplaced
2010 Ahran Chaudhary Uttar Pradesh Top 16
  • Mister Internet Popularity - Winner
2008 Romeo Gates New Delhi Top 15
  • Mister Internet Popularity - Winner
2007 Abhimanyu Jain Rajasthan 4th Runner-up
2006 Aryan Baruah Maharashtra Top 15
  • Mister Personality
2005 Pawan Setpal Maharashtra Unplaced
  • Mister Photogenic
2002 Nitin Singh Maharashtra Top 15
2001 Rajeev Singh Rajasthan Manhunt International 2001
  • Best National Costume - Winner
  • Sharmoon Best Dressed Gentleman Award
2000 Reji Varghese Andhra Pradesh Unplaced
1999 John Abraham Maharashtra 1st Runner-up
1998 Balbir Meena Rajasthan Unplaced
1997 Zulfi Syed Ahmad Karnataka 4th Runner-up
1995 Dino Morea Karnataka 1st Runner-up
1994 Rajat Bedi Punjab 4th Runner-up
  • No pageant held in these years: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2009, 2004, 2003 and 1996.

Mister World

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Gokul Ganesan Tamil Nadu TBA
2019 Vishnu Raj Menon Kerala Unplaced
  • Mister Multimedia - 2nd Runner-up
2016 Rohit Khandelwal Telangana Mister World 2016
  • Mister Multimedia - Winner
2014 Prateik Jain Karnataka Top 10
  • Continental King of Asia and Oceania
  • Mister Multimedia - 1st Runner up
  • Shot-Put - Winner
  • The Tug-O-War - Team Winner
  • Extreme sports - Top 24
  • Talent Round - Top 21
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

Mister International

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Vishnu Chaudhary TBA
2023 Shashwat Dwivedi Uttar Pradesh Top 5
  • Mister Smart Guy
2022 Lukanand Kshetrimayum Manipur 1st Runner-up
2019–2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2018 Balaji Murugadoss Tamil Nadu Unplaced
2017 Darasing Khurana Maharashtra Unplaced
2016 Mudit Malhotra New Delhi Top 9
2015 Halley Laithangbam Manipur Unplaced
  • Best National Costume - Top 10
2014 Parmeet Wahi Maharashtra Unplaced
2013 Hukapa Chakhesang Nagaland Unplaced
2012 Opangtongdang Jamir Nagaland Unplaced
2011 No delagate sent
2010 Akash Charan Rajasthan Unplaced
2009 Imran Khan New Delhi Unplaced
2008 Vikas Mehandroo New Delhi Top 15
2007 Nikhil Dharwan New Delhi Top 10
2006 Sudhir Tewari New Delhi Unplaced

Mister Global

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Gemin Darin TBA
2023 Jason Dylan Bretfelean Telengana Mister Global 2023
  • Mister Body Perfect
2022 Chena Ram Choudhary Rajasthan Top 15
2021 Tseteej Shiwakoty Sikkim Top 17
  • Most Inspirational Video Award - Top 5
2019 Rishabh Kumar New Delhi Unplaced
2018 Dhwrwm Swargiary Assam Unplaced
2017 Srikant Dwivedi Uttar Pradesh Top 10
2016 Prateek Baid Rajasthan Top 16
  • Best Model - Winner
2015 Sandeep Sehrawat New Delhi Unplaced

Mister Supranational

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Aman Rajesh Singh Karnataka Unplaced
2023 Raj Singh Maharashtra Unplaced
  • Mister Talent - Winner
2022 No delegate sent
2021 Rahul Rajasekharan Nair Kerala Top 10
  • Mister Supranational Asia - Winner
  • Mister Supra Chat - Winner
  • Digital Influencer - Top 10
  • Mister Supra Fan Vote - Top 10
2020 No competition held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Varun Verma New Delhi Top 10
  • Mister Supranational Asia - Winner
  • Mister Supra Fan Vote - Top 10
  • Digital Influencer - Top 10
2018 Prathamesh Maulingkar Goa Mister Supranational 2018
  • Best Body - Winner
  • Mister Social Media - Winner
2017 Altamash Faraz New Delhi Top 10
  • Mister Supranational Asia & Oceania - Winner
  • Best in Swimsuit - 1st Runner-up
  • Extreme Race - 1st Runner-up
  • Best in Streetwear - 3rd Runner-up
2016 Jitesh Naresh Thakur Rajasthan 2nd Runner-up
  • Mister Supranational Asia - Winner
  • Top Model - Winner
  • Mister Mobstar - 3rd Runner-up

Man of the World

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Ved Bharambe Pune Top 10
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Best in National Costume
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Best in Swimwear
2023 Baskar Dhanasekar Tamil Nadu Unplaced
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mister Personality
2022 Aditya Khurana Delhi Man of the World 2022
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Best in Beachwear
2019 Krishna Salak Chandigarh Top 10
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Mister Photogenic
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Best in National Costume
2018 Joshua Roshan Chhabra Mumbai Top 17
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Best in Fashion of the World
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Best in Talent

Representatives to minor beauty pageants

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Mister Tourism World

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Mushthaqh Mohammad TBA
2023 Mukesh Ravi Tamil Nadu Did not participate
2022 Mithun Debbarma Tripura Top 17
2021 Shouryaditya Singh Jharkhand 2nd Runner-up
2018 Zulfi Aziz SK Assam Unplaced
2017 Kunal Arora New Delhi Unplaced
2016 Sanju Ray Assam Unplaced

Mister Universal Ambassador

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2023 Sangarsh Verenkar Goa TBA
2020-2022 No pageant held
2019 No delegate sent
2018 Amit Om Malik Haryana Top 6
2017 Rohit Jakhar Haryana 4th Runner-up
  • Mister Universal Ambassador Asia - Winner
  • People Choice's Award - 1st Runner-up
2016 Deepak Vaishnav New Delhi Unplaced
  • Paper Presentation - Top 4
  • Beach and Land Sports - Top 16
2015 Jagjeet Singh New Delhi Top 5

Mister United Continents

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2023 Songashim Rungsung Manipur TBA
2019 Amandeep Dahiya Haryana Unplaced
2018 Pardeep Kharera Haryana Unplaced
  • Best in Swimwear - Finalist
2017 Mitendra Meeth Darshan Madhya Pradesh 1st Runner-up
2016 Mohit Singh Haryana Mister United Continents 2016
  • Online Popularity Award - Winner
2015 Dheeraj Sharma New Delhi 5th Runner-up
  • Best in Barong
  • Best in Runway

Mister Glam International

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Viraaj Babbar TBA
2023 Vyasan A Nair Kerala 3rd Runner-up
  • Mister Super Model
  • Mister Popularity
  • Pageantry King
2022 Rishi Bodke Venkatesh Karnataka Unplaced
  • Mister Glam Asia
2021 No delegate sent
2020 No pageant held
2019 Mithun Debbarma Tripura Unplaced

Mister Model of the World

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2019 Dinesh Choudhari Mister Model of the World 2019
  • Mister Herb Gold
  • Mister Model Confidential
2018 Dipankar Talukdar Assam Mister Model Star
4th Runner-up

Mister Friendship International

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Gaurish Singh TBA
2023 Daksh Chaudhary New Delhi 3rd Runner-up
  • Mister Popular
2022 Songashim Rungsung Manipur 2nd Runner-up

Mister Model International

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Abhishek Yadav TBA
2021 Armaan Hakim Maharashtra 3rd Runner-up
  • Best Headshot - Top 3
  • Best Internet Model - Top 16
2019 Dalton Dsouza Goa Unplaced
2018 Mohit Sharma Himanchal Pradesh Unplaced
  • Best Model Asia Pacific
2017 No pageant held
2016 Anurag Fageriya Rajasthan Top 16
2015 Phany Padaraju Maharashtra 1st Runner-up
2014 Dhwrwm Swargiary Punjab 4th Runner-up

Mister National Universe

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2025 Sagar Shah TBA
2024 Tachang Phassang Unplaced
  • Mister Flawless Skin
2023 Biswajit Roy Unplaced
2022 Bharat Bhushan 3rd Runner-Up
(Mister National Earth)
2019 Vikash Usham Manipur Mister National Universe 2019
Sahil Arora Unplaced
2018 Farhan Qureshii Madhya Pradesh Top 5
2017 Pankaj Ahlawat New Delhi Mister National Universe 2017
  • So Cool Guy Award - Winner
  • People's Choice Award - Winner

Mister Model Worldwide

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2021 Ankit Sharma Jammu and Kashmir TBA
2018 Suraj Dahiya New Delhi 2nd Runner-up
  • Mister Perfect Body - Winner
  • Best National Costume - 2nd Runner-up

Caballero Universal

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Adithya Subramanian TBA
2022 Kramik Yadav Gujarat 2nd Runner-up
  • Mister Elegance

Mister Friendship International

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2024 Harsh Rathod
2023 Daksh Chaudhary New Delhi 3rd Runner-up
  • Mister Popular
2022 Songashim Rungsung Manipur 2nd Runner-up
  • Best Personality

Mister Grand International (Based in Brazil)

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2021 Paras Arora Haryana TBA
2019 Ashwani Neeraj New Delhi Mister Grand International 2019
  • Best in National Costume
2017 Debojit Batacharya Assam Unplaced

Mr. Grand International (Based in Philippines)

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2018 Dipankar Talukdar Assam Unplaced
2017 Lakshay Chaudhary New Delhi Unplaced

Mister Grand International (Based in Myanmar)

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2021 Sujith Kumar New Delhi TBA
2018 Vatsal Kapadia New Delhi Top 8

Man of the Universe

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2021 Shivam Ravnit Bihar Man of the Universe 2021
  • Man of Social Media

Men Universe Model

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2018 Amit Mehra New Delhi Top 12
2017 No delegate sent
2016 Himanshu Shailey New Delhi Unplaced
2015 Sumit Singh New Delhi Top 13
2010-2014 No delegate sent
2009 Vikas Mehandroo New Delhi Unplaced
  • Best National Costume
2008 Kiran Gill New Delhi Top 10

Mister Gay World

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Year Delegate State Placement Special awards
2019 Suresh Ramdas Karnataka Top 10
2018 Samarpan Maiti West Bengal 2nd Runner-up
2017 Darshan Mandhana Maharashtra Top 10
2016 Anwesh Sahoo Odisha Top 12
2015 Thahir Sayer Mohammed Maharashtra Did not compete
2014 Sushant Divgikar Maharashtra Top 10
  • Mister Art
  • Mister Congeniality
  • People's Choice
2013 Nolan Lewis Maharashtra Top 10
2012 No delegate sent
2011 Raul Patil Maharashtra Unplaced

See also

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References

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