Moloy Roy

Moloy Roy is an Indian bodybuilder from the Bengali physical culture tradition who became one of the best known physique competitors in India. He grew up in a family of bodybuilders: his father, Monotosh Roy, was the first Asian to hold the Mr. Universe title, won in the Group III Amateur Division in 1951, and the father's mentor Bishnu Charan Ghosh was among the bodybuilders who regularly visited the family home. Moloy started exercising young, inspired by his father, and went on to win the Mr. India title eight times and the Mr. Asia title three times. He received the Arjuna Award, an Indian national sports honour. Outside the gym he also acted in Indian films, most notably as the bodybuilder Gunamoy Bagchi in Satyajit Ray's Joi Baba Felunath, and he held day jobs that included a post in the Income Tax department and work at the Rifle Factory Ishapore. In later life he still trains daily at the multi-gym his father set up near the family home in 1998.