MTV Roadies
| MTV Hero Honda Roadies | |
| Also known as | MTV Roadies |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality show |
| Presented by | Cyrus Sahukar Season 1 Rannvijay Singh Season 2 onwards |
| Country of origin |  India |
| Language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Raghu Ram |
| Location(s) | India Season 1 to 4 India, Thailand, Malaysia Season 5 India, Australia - Season 6 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | MTV India |
| First shown in | 2003 |
| Original run | – 2009 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
MTV Roadies is a youth-based popular reality television show on MTV India. The show was created by Raghu Ram and is hosted by Rannvijay Singh Singha. When asked about the show, Raghu said, "Roadies has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism..."[1]
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[edit] Selection Procedure
Auditions are held in various major cities in India. People who turn up for the audition are made to fill a form, then they undergo a group discussion, following which, selected candidates are chosen for personal interview conducted by the twins Raghu Ram and Rajiv Laxman. The interview round is deliberately acrimonious to test the participant's attitude, tolerance and patience levels. In the first two seasons, 7 Roadies were selected. Since then, this number has been increased to 13. There is no limit as to how many times a person can audition. For Season Six, 20 roadies were selected from the Interviews.
[edit] Format
The selected Roadies are provided with Hero Honda Karizma bikes to travel on a pre-decided route. Each episode features a vote-out, at the end in which the Roadies eliminate one of their fellow Roadies by an anonymous vote, thereby decreasing the number of Roadies carrying on with the journey.
Each episode consists of number of tasks or challenges which they have to perform. These tasks can be either "Money tasks" or "Immunity tasks". In the "Money tasks", the Roadies add cash to their account on successful completion of these tasks while in "Immunity tasks", the team which wins gets Immunity. The team which attains Immunity becomes safe from vote-out i.e its members cannot be voted-out in that particular episode. The above mentioned tasks are either team-based (i.e. performed between two or more teams) or individual-based (i.e. performed one-on-one). At the end of scheduled journey, the last Roadie who survives till the end is declared the winner and walks away with the total cash accumulated by performing the money tasks. The fifth season was the first time when an Advantage task was introduced. The winner(s) of an Advantage task get(s) some advantage in the vote out, which may include multiple votes or being the only one(s) to vote in the vote-out.
The Indian version of the show is based on the original MTV reality show Road Rules which started in the year 1995.[2]
[edit] Winners till Date
| Season | Winner | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Rannvijay Singh a.k.a. Donny/Soldier | Mumbai |
| Season 2 | Ayushmann Khurana | Chandigarh |
| Season 3 | Parul Shahi | Delhi |
| Season 4 | Anthony Yeh | Kolkata |
| Season 5 | Ashutosh Kaushik | Saharanpur |
| Season 6 | Nauman Sait | Bangalore |
[edit] Life after Roadies
Rannvijay Singh, one of the winners of first season of Roadies went on to host all further seasons of Roadies from season 2 onwards and became a popular VJ on MTV. Ayushman Khurana winner of roadies season 2 is hosting a programme on MTV known as wassup - the voice of youngistan.
Ashutosh Kaushik,winner of Roadies 5.0,became a housemate in the second season of popular Indian reality TV programme Bigg Boss and won the prize money.also did a few episodes of "chinchpokli to china" on [[Sony Entertainment Television ]] Shambhavi Sharma was offered a role in The Little Godfather, produced by Ekta Kapoor and Sunil Shetty.[3][4] Another contestant, Anmol Singh bagged a role as Archita in Ekta Kapoor's Kuchh Is Tara.[5] Now both of them host the talk show "G talk" on MTV's Heaven@7. Varun Saini along with Vishal (contestant from MTV Roadies Season 4) have been signed up for another reality show on MTV, titled MTV Splitsvilla.Vishal is now hosting a show on MTV called "couple-sutra".
Gurbani Judge a.k.a Bani J, the finalist from MTV Roadies Season 4 hosts two shows on MTV India – MTV Wassup (a daily 10 minutes bulletin) and MTV On The Job 2 (a reality show). Ayushmann Khurana, the winner of MTV Roadies Season 2 is also a host for MTV Wassup and also hosts a new show called 'U' campus which is a contest for the best college campus.
Shaleen Bhanot, a contestant of MTV Roadies Season 2 became a TV star, acting in many popular serials. He also won the reality dance show Nach Baliye 4.
