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

Christ University CHRIST - Deemed to be University is a deemed to be university in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred autonomy to Christ College in 2004. On 22 July 2008 i ...

, 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 B ...

'' (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) and produced by Dulquer Salmaan. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Dulquer Salmaan, Shobana and Kalyan ...

'' (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 Grasim Mr. India (''formerly Adonis - Graviera Man of the Year'') was a national male beauty pageant in India that annually selected representatives to compete globally at Mr. International, Mister World, Mr. Intercontinental and Best Model of t ...

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 Rohit Khandelwal (born 19 August 1989), is an Indian model, actor, television personality, winner of Mr India 2015 and the first ever Asian to be crowned Mister World in the 2016 contest. Early life Khandelwal was born in Hyderabad. He is a ...

, who later became the first Indian to win the

Mister World The Mister World competition is a male beauty pageant sponsored by the Miss World Organisation. The competition was founded in 1996. The entrants compete in various activities including waterskiing, mountain biking, and marathon running. The cu ...

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

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

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 female beauty pageant, started in 2009, and with most contests held in Poland and a parallel male contest, Mister Supranational, began in 2016, also in Poland. The current owners of Miss and Mister ...

pageant.

Films

Television

References

External links

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