Rohit Khandelwal
Biography
Rohit Khandelwal (born 19 August 1989), is an Indian model, actor, television personality, winner of Mr. India 2015 and the first ever Indian and Asian to be crowned Mister World in the 2016 contest.
Khandelwal was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana). He is a Marwari with family roots in Rajasthan. He is a graduate of Aurora Degree College and worked as ground staff for SpiceJet and then as a technical support assistant for Dell Computers.
His first television advertisement was a jewelry 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 a dramatization of love stories and aired on Bindass.
Later he played the 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 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 a main guest to the gala event which was held in Mumbai.