Rahul Rajasekharan Nair is an Indian model, actor and the winner of Mister Supranational India 2021 beauty pageant title. He represented India at

Mister Supranational 2021 Mister Supranational 2021 was the 5th edition of the Mister Supranational pageant. It was held on August 22, 2021 in Nowy Sącz, Poland. Nate Crnkovich of the United States crowned Varo Vargas of Peru as his successor at the end of the event. T ...

held on 22 August 2021 at

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, Poland and made it to the Top 10 finalists and also bagged the Mister Supranational Asia 2021 title.

Early life and career

Rahul was born and raised up in

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, Karnataka to

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parents hailing from

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, Kerala. After earning his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from

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, Rahul worked in the corporate industries for two years before shifting his focus to his passion for modeling and acting. Rahul made his successful debut in the Malayalam film industry with ''

Diwanjimoola Grand Prix ''Diwanjimoola Grand Prix'' is a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language sports comedy film directed by Anil Radhakrishnan Menon. The screenplay was co-written by Menon and former Kozhikode District Collector, Prasanth Nair, fondly known as Collector Bro ...

'' (2018), followed by ''

Varane Avashyamund ''Varane Avashyamund'' () is a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Anoop Sathyan, in his directorial debut. It was produced by Dulquer Salmaan under the banner of Wayfarer Films, and The film stars Suresh ...

'' (2020). Both films were declared box office successes and were well received by the film fraternity.

Pageantry

Mister India 2015

In 2015, Rahul participated at the 7th edition of Mister India competition held on 23 July 2015 at Club Royalty,

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, Maharashtra where he ended up as 1st Runner-up to Rohit Khandelwal, who later became the first Indian to win the

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title. During the competition, Rahul also won the Best Actor and Mister Ironman sub-titles.

Mister Supranational India 2021

In June 2021, Rahul was shortlisted to Top 12 contestants for the Mister Supranational India 2021 title amongst thousands of registrations. Due to the pandemic situation that has paralyzed the country, the entire competition followed the digital course, virtual projection and online interviews. On 8 June 2021, former Mister Supranational India 2019, Varun Verma, announced Rahul as the titleholder of Mister Supranational India 2021 via a video presentation on social media platforms.

Mister Supranational 2021

As the winner of Mister Supranational India 2021, Rahul represented India at

pageant held at

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on 22 August 2021 where at the end of the event, Nate Crnkovich of United States crowned Varo Vargas of

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as his successor. Rahul's placement made India's fifth-year streak of placing in the top 10 finalists in

Mister Supranational Miss Supranational is an annual international beauty pageant, started in 2009, and with most contests held in Poland. A parallel male contest, Mister Supranational, was launched in 2016, also in Poland. The current organizers of Miss and Mist ...

pageant.

Films

Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rajasekharan, Rahul Living people Malayali people Indian male models Indian male television actors Male actors from Kerala Indian beauty pageant winners Beauty pageant contestants from Bengaluru Male beauty pageant winners Year of birth missing (living people)