Predecessor | Grasim Mister India |
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Formation | 2014 |
Type | Beauty Pageant |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra |
Location | |
Membership
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Mister World |
Official language
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Hindi, English |
Parent organisation
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The Times Group |
Website | beautypageants |
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 owns this franchise. It also holds the franchise for Miss World India and Miss Universe India Miss Diva in India.
In 2016 The Times Group also has the franchise of Mister Supranational India. In the first inception Jitesh Thakur was sent to the pageant where he bagged the position of the 2nd runner up.
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.Viren Barman and Altamash Faraz were declared as 1st Runner-Up and 2nd Runner-Up of Mr.India 2016 respectively.
Adonis-Graviera Contest was held in 1996 to select India' representative at the very first edition of Mister World in 1996. The first ever Mister India was Bikram Saluja, 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 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.