10 things about Mister World India 2024 Gokul Ganesan

Gokul Ganesan (கோனுள் கணேச) won the seventh edition of Mister India. He represented India in the 11th edition of Mister World.

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BIOGRAPHY

Ganesan is an Indian entrepreneur, model, powerlifter, fitness enthusiast and beauty king born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is trilingual.

While reigning as Mister India 2024, Ganesan bootstrapped a new coffee chain in Chennai. He co-founded the gender-neutral clothing brand Doto.

On November 26, 2025, Ganesan turned 24. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He is an alumnus of Vellore Institute of Technology in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
2. He was the male OMG-Face of the Year 2021 winner.
3. He was an India Cult Lifestyle Fashion Week 2022 model.
4. He was a Rubaru Mr. India 2022 finalist.
5. As Rubaru Mr. India Model International 2022, he was supposed to represent India in Mister Model International but the international competition was not held in 2022 and 2023.
6. In 2023, he visited the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia.
7. In 2024, he visited Vietnam.
8. He won Mister India 2024.
9. He is Mister World India 2024.
10. He was a Mister World 2024 finalist.

TIMELINE

Ganesan is 6’3″ tall. He speaks Hindi, Tamil and English and he enjoys sketching and dancing.

2021

• On December 13, 2021, he won the male category of OMG-Face of the Year 2021 at Garrison Bistro in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

2022

• In March 2022, he walked the runway at the India Cult Lifestyle Fashion Week 2022 at the Sheri Kashmir International Convention Centre in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
• On October 5, 2022, he competed against 35 other Rubaru Mr. India 2022 candidates at the Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Hotel in Chennai. He ranked second and was crowned Rubaru Mr. India Model International 2022.
• In December 2022, he was photographed by Amit Khanna in Mumbai and he walked for Vipin Aggarwal and Pankaj Soni at the Mysore Fashion Week in Mysore, Karnataka, India.

2023

• In January 2023, he traveled to Dubai, UAE.
• On February 8, 2023, he attended the 23rd edition of the Devi Awards at the ITC Grand Chola in Chennai.
• In April 2023, he walked for Mr. Dezyner at the Karnataka Fashion League at Hotel Lalith Ashok in Bengaluru, Karnataka and for The Man Project at the 2023 Pune Times Fashion Week at the Westin Pune Koregaon Park in Pune, Maharashtra.
• In September 2023, he walked for JadeBlue and 91Threads at the Ahmedabad Times Fashion Week 2023 at Hyatt Regency Ahmedabad in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
• In December 2023, he traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2024

• On July 16, 2024, he was selected as one of the 35 official Mister India 2024 candidates.
• On July 18, 2024, he made it to the Top 8 of Mister India 2024.
• On July 19, 2024, Mister World 2016 Rohit Khandelwal officially sashed him as Mister India World 2024 in Mumbai.
• On October 16, 2024, he attended the Femina Miss India 2024 coronation ceremony at Famous Studios in Mumbai.
• On November 3, 2024, he traveled from the T2 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport in Mumbai to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• On November 20, 2024, he wore a Shravan Kummar outfit in the Mister World 2024 national costume competition at NovaWorld in Phan Thiết, Bình Thuận, Vietnam.
• On November 23, 2024, he represented India at Mister World 2024 and competed against 59 other candidates at NovaWorld in Phan Thiết. He finished in the Top 10.

2025

• On May 31, 2025, he attended Miss World 2025 at the HITEX Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• On August 21, 2025, he crowned his successor Mister India World 2025 Shevam Singh at One8 Commune in Mumbai.