Rohit Khandelwal
Rohit Khandelwal is an Indian actor, model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder who the winner of Mr India 2015 and the first ever Indian and Asian to be crowned Mister World 2016.
Early life
Khandelwal was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. He is a Marwari with family roots in Rajasthan. He is a graduate from Aurora Degree College and worked as a ground staff for SpiceJet and then as a technical support assistant for Dell Computers.Career
His first television advertisement was a jewellery advertisement with Kareena Kapoor. Later he appeared in other advertisements.He made his television show debut in episode 76 of Yeh Hai Aashiqui, an Indian television series that presented dramatisation of love stories and aired on Bindass. Later he played role of Bhuvan, the leader of handloom weavers on the television series ‘’Million Dollar Girl’’, which was televised by Channel V. Growing up in Hyderabad, he was not fluent in Hindi so he had to take Hindi diction classes to learn the language.
In 2015, he won the Mr India 2015 contest held on 23 July 2015 at Club Royalty in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He also won two special awards at the contest, "Stay-On Mr Active" and "Provogue Personal Care Best Actor".
In 2016, he passed down his Mr India crown to Vishnu Raj Menon who was announced as Mr India 2016 by Hrithik Roshan who attended as main guest to the gala event which was held in Mumbai.