| 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 | 7 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Raghu Ram |
| Location(s) | India Season 1 to 4 India, Thailand, Malaysia Season 5 India, Australia - Season 6 Remote parts of India and Parts of Africa - Season 7 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | MTV India |
| First shown in | 2003 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
MTV Roadies is a youth-based scripted popular reality television show on MTV India.
When asked about the show, executive producer Raghu Ram said, "Roadies has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism..."[1]
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Selection procedure
The Roadies auditions are held in various major cities in India. People who fill their online form and get short-listed undergo a group discussion, following which, selected candidates are chosen for personal interview conducted by the MTV panel. The MTV panel constitutes of experts from MTV.In the 1st and 2nd season, only 7 roadies were selected, from 3rd season 13 roadies were selected.For Season Six, 20 roadies were selected.There is no limit as to how many times a person can audition.
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 or roadie which wins gets Immunity. The team or roadie 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]
Winners
- Season 1: No winner.it had different format.there was no competetion.
- Season 2: Ayushmann Khurana from Chandigarh
- Season 3: Parul Shahi from Delhi
- Season 4: Anthony Yeh from Kolkata
- Season 5: Ashutosh Kaushik from Saharanpur
- Season 6: Nauman Sait from Bangalore
- Season 7: Season in progress...
Life after Roadies
Rannvijay Singh, one of the contestants of first season of Roadies went on to host all further seasons of Roadies from season 2 onwards and became a VJ on MTV.
Ayushman Khurana winner of Roadies season 2 is a host on MTV. Shows hosted by him include MTV Wassup!, Stripped and Fantastic 5. He was also the co-host on India's Got Talent.
Ashutosh Kaushik, winner of Roadies 5.0, became a housemate in the second season of popular Indian reality TV programme Bigg Boss and went on to be its winner.
Rishabh Dhir from season 4 has got a job with MTV production team and works with the Roadies crew.
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] Both of them later hosted 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 also appears in the colors show 'Bhagyavidhata'.
Recently Ayaaz has appeared as one of the pizza boys in a commercial of Cadbury Celebrations and he also got a role in Ekta Kapoor's Kitani Mohabbat Hai.
Gurbani Judge a.k.a Bani J, the finalist from MTV Roadies Season 4 hosts Pepsi MTV Wassup on MTV India.
Raj Roy, 2nd runner up of MTV Roadies 4 did another TV show with UTV Bindass named as CBF Stunner 10, before he took up to DJ'ing professionally and was nominated at Odessey fest as winner of war of the DJ's
Nauman Sait (winner of season 6) appeared with his twin brother in MTV Connected nd also appeared with his twin brother Salman Sait in the serial Koi Aane Ko Hai...
Shaleen Balot of season 2 is now a television actor and also won Nach Baliye 4 with his girlfriend Daljeet Kaur
References
- ^ Liza George (2006-09-08). "Tough guys last the course". Hindu newspaper. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/09/08/stories/2006090801290400.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ^ Funenclave.com
- ^ "MTV 'Roadies' finalist Shambhavi steps into Bollywood". IANS. 2008-04-19. http://www.indiasnews.net/story/350029. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "MTV Roadies finalist drives her way to Bollywood". IANS. 2008-04-19. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/mtv-roadies-finalist-drives-her-way-to-bollywood/63581-8.html. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- ^ "Anmol Singh Enters Kuchh Is Tara As Archita". http://www.jimandaz.com/6/anmol_singh_entered_kuchh_is_tara_archita.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
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