List of Indian representatives at international male beauty pageants

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

Early years and franchise development (1994–2012)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
1994	Rajat Bedi	Punjab	4th Runner-Up
1995	Dino Morea	Karnataka	1st Runner-Up
1997	Zulfi Syed Ahmad	Karnataka	4th Runner-Up
1998	Balbir Meena	Rajasthan	Unplaced
1999	John Abraham	Maharashtra	1st Runner-Up
2000	Reji Varghese	Andhra Pradesh	Unplaced
2001	Rajeev Singh	Rajasthan	Manhunt International 2001	2 Special Awards Best National Costume Sharmoon Best Dressed Gentleman Award
2002	Nitin Singh	Maharashtra	Top 15
2005	Pawan Setpal	Maharashtra	Unplaced	1 Special Award Mister Photogenic
2006	Aryan Baruah	Maharashtra	Top 15	1 Special Award Mister Personality
2007	Abhimanyu Jain	Rajasthan	4th Runner-Up
2008	Romeo Gates	New Delhi	Top 15	1 Special Award Mister Internet Popularity
2010	Ahran Chaudhary	Uttar Pradesh	Top 16	1 Special Award Mister Internet Popularity
2011	Shashvat Seth	Maharashtra	Unplaced
2012	Arry Dabas	Haryana	Top 16	1 Special Award Mister Photogenic
2016	Grewal Gurmehar	New Delhi	Unplaced
2017	Takshanin Ram	Maharashtra	Unplaced	1 Special Award Best Participant Award
2018	Prasad Cariappa	Karnataka	Unplaced
2020	Mayur Gangwani	Karnataka	4th Runner-Up
2022	Rakesh Nongmaithem	Manipur	Unplaced
2024	Jomin D’souza	Maharashtra	TBA

Note – No pageant held in the years: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2009, 2004, 2003 and 1996

Mister World

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
1996	Bikram Saluja	Punjab	Top 10
1998	Sachin Khurana	New Delhi	Unplaced
2007	Kawaljit Anand Singh	Assam	Top 12
2010	Inder Bajwa	Karnataka	Top 15	2 Special Awards Top 20 – Mister World Talent Top 20 – Mister World Top Model
2012	Taher Ali	Maharashtra	Unplaced
2014	Prateik Jain	Karnataka	Top 10	6 Special Awards Continental King of Asia and Oceania Winner – Shot-Put Challenge Winner (Team) – The Tug-O-War 1st Runner-Up – Mister Multimedia Top 21 – Talent Round Top 24 – Extreme Sports
2016	Rohit Khandelwal	Telangana	Mister World 2016	1 Special Award Winner – Mister Multimedia
2019	Vishnu Raj Menon	Kerala	Unplaced	1 Special Award 2nd Runner-Up – Mister Multimedia
2024	Gokul Ganesan	Tamil Nadu	TBA	3 Special Award Top 12 – Top Model Top 20 – Head-to-Head Challenge Top 36 – Talent Round

Mister International (Thailand)

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2006	Sudhir Tewari	New Delhi	Unplaced
2007	Nikhil Dharwan	New Delhi	Top 10
2008	Vikas Mehandroo	New Delhi	Top 15
2009	Imran Khan	New Delhi	Unplaced
2010	Akash Charan	Rajasthan	Unplaced
2012	Opangtongdang Jamir	Nagaland	Unplaced
2013	Hukapa Chakhesang	Nagaland	Unplaced
2014	Parmeet Wahi	Maharashtra	Unplaced
2015	Halley Laithangbam	Manipur	Unplaced	1 Special Award Top 10 – Best National Costume
2016	Mudit Malhotra	New Delhi	Top 9
2017	Darasing Khurana	Maharashtra	Unplaced
2018	Balaji Murugadoss	Tamil Nadu	Unplaced
2022	Lukanand Kshetrimayum	Manipur	1st Runner-up
2023	Shashwat Dwivedi	Uttar Pradesh	Top 5	1 Special Award Mister Smart Guy
2024	Vishnu Choudhary	Jaipur	TBA

Note: No pageant held in the years: 2019 – 2021 and no delegate was sent in 2011

Mister International (Philippines)

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2024	Adong Jamatia	Tripura	Top 16

Mister Global

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2015	Sandeep Sehrawat	New Delhi	Unplaced
2016	Prateek Baid	Rajasthan	Top 16	1 Special Award Best Model
2017	Srikant Dwivedi	Uttar Pradesh	Top 10
2018	Dhwrwm Swargiary	Assam	Unplaced
2019	Rishabh Kumar	New Delhi	Unplaced
2021	Tseteej Shiwakoty	Sikkim	Top 17	1 Special Award Top 5 – Most Inspirational Video Award
2022	Chena Ram Choudhary	Rajasthan	Top 15
2023	Jason Dylan Bretfelean	Telangana	Mister Global 2023	1 Special Award Mister Body Perfect
2024	Gemin Darin	Arunachal Pradesh	Top 20

Mister Supranational

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2016	Jitesh Naresh Thakur	Rajasthan	2nd Runner-Up	3 Special Awards Mister Supranational Asia Winner – Top Model 3rd Runner-Up – Mister Mobstar
2017	Altamash Faraz	New Delhi	Top 10	4 Special Awards Mister Supranational Asia & Oceania 1st Runner-Up – Best in Swimsuit 1st Runner-Up – Extreme Race 3rd Runner-Up – Best in Street-Wear
2018	Prathamesh Maulingkar	Goa	Mister Supranational 2018	2 Special Awards Winner – Best Body Winner – Mister Social Media
2019	Varun Verma	New Delhi	Top 10	3 Special Awards Mister Supranational Asia Top 10 – Digital Influencer Top 10 – Mister Supra Fan Vote
2021	Rahul Rajasekharan Nair	Kerala	Top 10	4 Special Awards Mister Supranational Asia Winner – Mister Supra Chat Top 10 – Digital Influencer Top 10 – Mister Supra Fan Vote
2023	Raj Singh	Maharashtra	Unplaced	1 Special Award Winner – Mister Talent
2024	Aman Rajesh Singh	Karnataka	Unplaced

Mister Grand International (Based in Philippines)

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2022	Nehal Patil	Goa	Top 18
2023	Satya Vishwanadh	Karnataka	Unplaced
2024	TBA

Representatives to minor beauty pageants

Man of the World

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2018	Joshua Roshan Chhabra	Maharashtra	Top 17	2 Special Awards Best in Fashion of the World Best in Talent
2019	Krishna Salak	Chandigarh	Top 10	2 Special Awards Mister Photogenic Best in National Costume
2022	Aditya Khurana	Delhi	Man of the World 2022	1 Special Award Best in Beachwear
2023	Baskar Dhanasekar	Tamil Nadu	Unplaced	1 Special Award Mister Personality
2024	Ved Bharambe	Maharashtra	Top 10	2 Special Awards Best in National Costume Best in Swimwear

Note – No pageant held in the years: 2020, 2021

Top Model of the World

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2024	Martin Irengbam	Manipur	1st Runner-up	3 Special Awards Best Catwalk Best Face Best Physique

Mister Tourism World

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

Mister Glam International

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2019	Mithun Debbarma	Tripura	Unplaced
2022	Rishi Bodke Venkatesh	Karnataka	Unplaced	1 Special Award Mister Glam Asia
2023	Vyasan A Nair	Kerala	3rd Runner-Up	3 Special Awards Pageantry King Mister Popularity Mister Super Model
2024	Viraaj Babbar	Madhya Pradesh	TBA

Note – No pageant held in 2020 and no delegate was sent in 2021

Mister Friendship International

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2022	Songashim Rungsung	Manipur	2nd Runner-Up
2023	Daksh Chaudhary	New Delhi	3rd Runner-Up	1 Special Award Mister Popular
2024	Gaurish Singh	Assam	TBA

Mister Model International

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2014	Dhwrwm Swargiary	Punjab	4th Runner-Up
2015	Phany Padaraju	Maharashtra	1st Runner-Up
2016	Anurag Fageriya	Rajasthan	Top 16
2018	Mohit Sharma	Himanchal Pradesh	Unplaced	1 Special Award Best Model Asia Pacific
2019	Dalton Dsouza	Goa	Unplaced
2021	Armaan Hakim	Maharashtra	3rd Runner-Up	2 Special Awards Top 3 – Best Headshot Top 16 – Best Internet Model
2025	Abhishek Yadav	Maharashtra	TBA

Note – No pageant held in the years 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023 and no delegate sent in 2024

Mister National Universe

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2017	Pankaj Ahlawat	New Delhi	Mister National Universe 2017	2 Special Awards Winner – People's Choice Award Winner – So Cool Guy Award
2018	Farhan Qureshii	Madhya Pradesh	Top 5
2019	Vikash Usham	Manipur	Mister National Universe 2019
2019	Sahil Arora	Gujarat	Unplaced
2022	Bharat Bhushan	New Delhi	3rd Runner-Up	1 Special Award Mister National Earth
2023	Biswajit Roy	West Bengal	Unplaced
2024	Tachang Phassang	Arunachal Pradesh	Unplaced	1 Special Award Mister Flawless Skin
2025	Sagar Shah	Maharashtra	TBA

Note – 2 editions of Mister National Universe were held in 2019

Caballero Universal

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2022	Kramik Yadav	Gujarat	2nd Runner-Up	1 Special Award Mister Elegance
2023	Badal Bist	Karnataka	Top 15	1 Special Award Mister Congeniality
2024	Adithya Subramanian	Tamil Nadu	2nd Runner-Up

Mister Gay World

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2011	Raul Patil	Maharashtra	Unplaced
2013	Nolan Lewis	Maharashtra	Top 10
2014	Sushant Divgikar	Maharashtra	Top 10	3 Special Awards Mister Art Mister Congeniality People's Choice
2015	Thahir Sayer Mohammed	Maharashtra	Did not compete
2016	Anwesh Sahoo	Odisha	Top 12
2017	Darshan Mandhana	Maharashtra	Top 10
2018	Samarpan Maiti	West Bengal	2nd Runner-Up
2019	Suresh Ramdas	Karnataka	Top 10
2020	Shyam Konnur	Maharashtra	Unplaced
2023	Vishal pinjani	Maharashtra	Top 5

Note – No pageant held in the year 2012 and no delegate sent in 2021, 2022

Defunct Pageants

The following is a list of former Indian representatives to beauty pageants that have been discontinued.

Man of the Universe

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2021	Shivam Ravnit	Bihar	Man of the Universe Ambassador 2021	1 Special Award Man of Social Media

Mister Grand International (Based in Brazil)

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2017	Debojit Batacharya	Assam	Unplaced
2018	Lakshay Chaudhary	Delhi	Top 9
2019	Ashwani Neeraj	New Delhi	Mister Grand International 2019	1 Special Award Best National Costume

Note – No pageant held in the years: 2020 – 2021 and no delegate sent in 2022

Mister Model Worldwide

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2018	Suraj Dahiya	New Delhi	2nd Runner-Up	2 Special Awards Winner – Mister Perfect Body 2nd Runner-Up – Best National Costume
2021	Ankit Sharma	Jammu and Kashmir	No pageant held

Note – No pageant held in the years: 2020 – 2023 and no delegate sent in 2019

Mister United Continents

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2015	Dheeraj Sharma	New Delhi	5th Runner-Up	2 Special Awards Best in Barong Best in Runway
2016	Mohit Singh	Haryana	Mister United Continents 2016	1 Special Award Winner – Online Popularity Award
2017	Mitendra Meeth Darshan	Madhya Pradesh	1st Runner-Up
2018	Pardeep Kharera	Haryana	Unplaced	1 Special Award Finalist – Best in Swimwear
2019	Amandeep Dahiya	Haryana	Unplaced

Mister Model of the World

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2018	Dipankar Talukdar	Assam	4th Runner-Up	1 Special Award Mister Model Star
2019	Dinesh Choudhary	Maharashtra	Mister Model of the World 2019	2 Special Awards Mister Herb Gold Mister Model Confidential

Mister Grand International (Based in Myanmar)

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2018	Vatsal Kapadia	New Delhi	Top 8
2021	Sujith Kumar	New Delhi	No pageant held

Men Universe Model

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2008	Kiran Gill	New Delhi	Top 10
2009	Vikas Mehandroo	New Delhi	Unplaced	1 Special Award Best National Costume
2015	Sumit Singh	New Delhi	Top 13
2016	Himanshu Shailey	New Delhi	Unplaced
2018	Amit Mehra	New Delhi	Top 12

Note – No pageant held in the years: 2010 – 2014 and no delegate sent in 2017

Mister Universal Ambassador

Year	Delegate	State	International Placement & Performance
			Placements	Special award(s)
2015	Jagjeet Singh	New Delhi	Top 5
2016	Deepak Vaishnav	New Delhi	Unplaced	2 Special Awards Top 4 – Paper Presentation Top 16 – Beach and Land Sports
2017	Rohit Jakhar	Haryana	4th Runner-Up	2 Special Awards Mister Universal Ambassador Asia 1st Runner-Up – People Choice's Award
2018	Amit Om Malik	Haryana	Top 6

Note – No delegate sent in 2019

See also

• Grasim Mr. India
• Mr. Gay India
• Femina Miss India
• List of beauty pageants

References

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External links

• Mister World India Official Website
• Mr World - India
• Mister World India Official Facebook