Rohit Khandelwal (born 19 August 1989) 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

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Early life

Khandelwal was born in

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(now

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). He is a

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with family roots in

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. He is a graduate from Aurora Degree College and worked as a ground staff for

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and then as a technical support assistant for Dell Computers. His first

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was a jewellery advertisement with

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. Later he appeared in other advertisements. He made his television show debut in episode 76 of ''

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'', an Indian television series that presented dramatisation of love stories and aired on

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. Later he played role of Bhuvan, the leader of handloom weavers on the television series ‘’Million Dollar Girl’’, which was televised by

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. Growing up in

, 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

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. 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

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who was announced as

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who attended as main guest to the gala event which was held in

Filmography

Films

Television

Music videos

Mr World 2016

Khandelwal became the first Asian to win the title of Mister World on 19 July 2016 at Southport Theatre, Floral Hall, The Promenade, Southport. The competition saw 47 participants from around the world. Khandelwal received a cash prize of $50,000. He also competed for various sub-titles at the pageant, including Mr. World Multimedia Award, Mr. World Talent, Mobstar People's Choice Awards and Mr. World Sports Event, winning Mr. World Multimedia Award. During his reign as

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, Rohit has travelled to

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, in addition to numerous trips to

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and

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