MR.INDIA 2009

V JAYPRAKASH

Throughout the various ages of India's history there has been a growth of interest in Physical Culture. As far back as the 1100s there were detailed descriptions of diet, training & lifestyle for the more famous proponents. Weightlifting was achieved using stone and sacks of sand. Press-ups and squats were common exercises. By the 1500s Bodybuilding had become a national passion.

One of the most popular forms of weight that was used through the centuries was the Nal, made of rough stone with a hole through the centre and very often with a handle.

It is often considered that the British Rule in India started a period of decline in Physical Culture and general health amongst the Indian population.

In 1905 there was a revival of interest, mainly in strand pulling. This was due to a great extent to Sandow's highly successful visit to India in 1904.

Muscle Control was introduced to India in the 1920s by Chit Tun, a Burmese man who settled in Calcutta.

Despite the influence of Sandow and others 'Western' style bodybuilding did not take off in a big way until the 1930s. The most important instructor at that time being Prof. K.V. Iyer who founded the Hercules Gymnasium in Bangalore. He also started India's first postal course in Bodybuilding.

B.C. Ghosh credits Chit Tun with inspiring him to take up Muscle Control and he and his partner K.C. Sen Gupta opened a Gymnasium in Calcutta in the 1930s. Ghosh & Sengupta were credited with the early training of both Monotosh Roy and Monohar Aich, both World Class bodybuilders in the 50s.

May be the world today does not know much about Indian Bodybuilders, but the fact is that India has been the base of bodybuilding since thousands of years. India has its history of bodybuilding touching thousand of years. The saddest part is that today, India is not that ahead in the department, yet many of Indian Bodybuilders have proved their presence in the Race. India has so far produced three Mr.Universes, Sri. Monotosh Roy (1951- Winner Class 3), Sri. Monohar Aich (1952 - Winner Short Men Catagory) also known by the name of Pocket Hercules and the unforgettable Sri. Premchand Degra (1985). These names are just the examples of what India has within its resources and what India can produce if right path is shown.

Never the less India has produced several big names who may not be known by everyone in the world but are legends of their abilities. Some of the names include Sri Sunil Kumar Patro (Mr. Asia - Runner up) and 12 times Mr. India and winner of the greatest sports honor of Arjun Award. Currently he is settled in Rourkela (Orissa) and is running a gym (Modern Health Club) which has produced several national level bodybuilders. He is called by the name of DADA and is one of the most respected person of the place.

I AM TRULY PROUD TO BE A STUDENT OF HIM AND I THANK GOD FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN HIS GUIDENCE

Monotosh Roy

Born 1917 in Gajaria in Dacca district of India.
Died June 29th 2005.

Roy started exercising at 12 and entered his first competition in 1939. In1942 he won the East Indian Bodybuilding Championship and in 1947 won the All India competition. He was an early pupil of B.C. Ghosh

In 1951 he won the Mr. Universe (Class 3-short men division) competition. His height was 5' 5"

He later taught at Calcutta University, Law College and played an important role in the development of the IFBB in India and was credited as being the Founder Member.

In his later years he gave up Physical Culture and became bed-ridden.

He died at the age of 88 of Cardiac Arrest in a Nursing Home in Kolkata, leaving behind three sons and a daughter.

Living Legend Sri Monohor Aich :-

Manohar Aich, (born 1912) is an Indian bodybuilder. He won the 1952 Mr Universe championship. He is also three-time Asian Games gold medalist in body building. Being only 5' tall, he was given the name "Pocket Hercules". He currently lives near Kolkata and has retained an excellent physique even at the age of 97 years.His chest measured 54 inches with a waist of 23 inches giving him the best v-cut.

Aich continues to train for 90 minutes at his own gym Studio de Physique in Kolkata which has produced Indian champs like Satyen Das, Satya Pal and Hitesh Chatterjee. Aich's diet: dal, bhaat, curry and maach (fish).

Sri. Manohar Aich

Aich At age of 75 and Aich At age of 85

Sri Premchand Degra :-

Another Legend in Count....Mr.Universe 1985. He is Premchand Degra.

Born on December 1, 1955 (1955-12-01) (age 53) at Babri Nangal village in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, Premchand Degra has striven hard to mould his body into a muscular delight. He began his sports career as a wrestler after completing his matriculation from Government High School of the neighbouring Tibber village in 1973. It was only in 1980 that he developed an interest in body building and rose to be crowned Mr. Punjab, Mr. North India, Mr. India (9 times in a row), Mr, Asia (8 times) and finally Mr. World (Middle-weight class and Mr. Universe.

The world title earned him the Padma Shri in 1990. Earlier he had received the Arjuna Award in 1986. He is also the recipient of the Punjab Government's Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award (1994), Tata best Sportsman Award (1986) Charminar Challenge Trophy. Prem made his national debut by claiming a Bronze Medal in Middle-Weight Class at Darjeeling in 1980. He followed it up by winning three Gold Medals next year that made him Mr. Punjab, Junior Mr. India and Senior Mr. India 1981. He retained the title of Mr. India in middleweight category 1984. Thereafter he moved over to Light Heavy Weight Class and for next five years (1985–1989) won the title of Mr India in this class too.

He began his international career by bagging the title of Mr. Asia in Middle-weight Class at Karachi in 1983, a feat he was to repeat at Seoul in 1984. Subsequently he switched over to Light Heavy-weight Class in Mr. Asia contest too, winning the title at Colombo in 1985, Taipei in 1986 and Malaysia in 1987.

Dogra stuck to Middle-weight Class in all the five appearances he made at the World Championships. He first competed for the world title in 1984 at Las Vegas where he finished 14th, He moved up to 4th position in 1985 in Sweden and was named the Most Improved Bodybuilder of the year. He won Silver Medal at Tokyo in 1986 and was again placed at 4th place at Madrid (Spain) in 1987. The climax came in 1988 when at Queensland in Australia he won the Gold in Middle-Weight class and was crowned Mr. World. Prem Dogra turned professional in 1989 and the same year participated in Mr. Olympia contest. He then went on to win the 1st Pro-Am Classic of Mr. Asia in 1990 and the 2nd Pro-Am Classic of Mr. Asia in 1991. Five years later, he returned to win the Gold in Light Heavy-weight category of Mr. Asia championship held at Delhi in 1996.

SOME PICS FROM MR.INDIA 2009 KOLKATA.
















Legendary Sri. Monohar Aich

MR. INDIA 2009 RESULTS :-

LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 55 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	5	RAHUL SALUKHE	RAILWAYS	10
2	6	SRIPAL REDDY	RAILWAYS	22
3	13	JAGATJYOTI CHAKRABORTY	WEST BENGAL	29
4	9	MANOJ KUMAR MAJUMDAR	ORISSA	45
5	18	SUBROTO SANTRA	ORDNANCE FACTORY	48
6	17	NITIN MHATRE	MAHARASHTRA	51
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 60 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	43	DALJIT SINGH	PUNJAB	10
2	36	Y. KUNJ KISHORE	SERVICES	24
3	30	ANUP PREM KUMAR	RAILWAYS	35
4	28	Y. SUNANTA	MANIPUR	37
5	44	G. HARI KRISHNAN	TAMIL NADU	46
6	41	SAMIR DAS	GOA	60
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 65 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	72	ROMI SINGH	SERVICES	14
2	61	K. BALA MURUGAN	RAILWAYS	25
3	84	MD. ABDULLAH	KARNATAKA	26
4	78	MD. SAGIR	UTTAR PRADESH	44
5	62	R. SATISH KUMAR	RAILWAYS	45
6	81	HIRA LAL	PUNJAB	59
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 70 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	96	V. JAYA PRAKASH	RAILWAYS	20
	103	R. NAYAK	SERVICES	21
3	112	ANIRUDH CHATTERJEE	UTTAR PRADESH	22
4	97	T. MEENAKSHI SUNDARAM	RAILWAYS	37
5	118	PARVESH KUMAR RAMPAL	PUNJAB	48
6	98	BORUN YUMNAM	CRPF	50
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 75 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	140	BHARTA KUMAR	SERVICES	12
2	136	RANJIT KUMAR .P	RAILWAYS	21
3	139	ASHIM BANARJEE	ORISSA	35
4	135	DHIRAJ JAISWAL	HARYANA	38
5	137	A. MOMOTOMBA SINGH	CRPF	50
6	146	MOHD. ARIF	UTTAR PRADESH	55
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 80 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	164	E.G. BYJU	SERVICES	10
2	162	P.P. SAMEER	RAILWAYS	22
3	156	M. SHALIN	MANIPUR	32
4	168	VIJAY BAHADUR	UTTAR PRADESH	42
5	178	ROBIN SINGH	UTTAR PRADESH	47
6	173	SACHIN PATIL	MAHARASHTRA	59
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 85 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	197	AMIT CHOUDHURY	UTTAR PRADESH	17
2	187	S. ANEESH RAJ	KERALA	20
3	195	ANAND KUMAR	SERVICES	34
4	184	RAHUL BIST	UTTARAKHAND	36
5	194	VINAY KUMAR PANDEY	RAILWAYS	47
6	198	AVINISH SHARMA	UTTAR PRADESH	58
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 90 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	209	KIRAN PATIL	RAILWAYS	13
2	214	PRASAD KUMAR	SERVICES	17
3	220	PRASHANT SALUNKHE	MAHARASHTRA	30
4	215	JASWEER SINGH	SERVICES	43
5	218	K.H. PRITAM SINGH	CRPF	47
6	212	ARUN	DELHI	60
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 100 KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	228	V. JAYA KUMAR	RAILWAYS	15
2	230	MURALI KUMAR	SERVICES	19
3	235	WASIM	DELHI	26
4	233	LAVIN KUMAR PUJARI	KARNATAKA	41
5	232	PRITAM CHONGULE	KARNATAKA	50
6	229	M. SATISH KUMAR	TAMIL NADU	57
LIST OF FINAL WINNERS IN THE CATEGORY OF 100+ KG
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	240	JAYA PRAKASH	SERVICES	10
2	241	VARINDER GHUMAN	PUNJAB	20
3	239	SAGAR KATE	ORDNANCE FACTORY	30
4	238	PARMAR RAJNIKANA H	GUJARAT	40
LIST OF FINAL WOMEN WINNERS IN CATEGORY OF UPTO 160CM
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	265	DIPRINA BHATTACHARJEE	WEST BENGAL
2	266	SHIBANI SHARMA	PUNJAB
3	255	PUJA ROY	JHARKAND
4	254	MADHUMITA DEY	WEST BENGAL
5	252	SONIA MITRA	WEST BENGAL
6	256	PAPIA DAS	JHARKAND
LIST OF FINAL WOMEN WINNERS IN CATEGORY OF ABOVE 160CM
RANK	TNO	NAME OF THE PARTICIPANT	UNIT	MARKS
1	280	MAN PREET	PUNJAB
2	275	MOUNA KARMAKAR	WEST BENGAL
3	281	NISA PAUL	PUNJAB
4	274	KAMOBIKA MUKHERJEE	WEST BENGAL
5	272	PIYALI DOLUI	WEST BENGAL
6	271	LAKSHMI DAS	WEST BENGAL
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
STATUS		NAME OF THE UNIT	POINTS
WINNER		RAILWAYS	140
RUNNER		SERVICES	128