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| MTV Splitsvilla | |
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| File:Split2.jpg The Twisted tale of love |
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| Also known as | Splitsvilla |
| Genre | Reality show |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Raghu Ram |
| Producer(s) | Digant Sharma |
| Location(s) | Season 1 - Goa Season 2 - Goa |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | MTV India |
| First shown in | 2008 |
| Original run | – 2009 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
MTV Splitsvilla, is a television reality show on MTV India. Splitsvilla is one of its kind hunt for love show in the locales of Goa. The tagline of this show is "Where Love is War".
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Season 1
In Season 1, Two boys, viz. Varun Saini, a participant of MTV Roadies 5.0 and Vishal Karwal, of MTV Roadies 4, find the ultimate girl of their dreams by choosing from 20 girls by putting them through gruelling "tests". The girls battle stress, politics, exhaustion, fear, bitchiness and bad television to be the chosen one and avoid humiliation of getting dumped. The girl who has been dumped will leave the show and move back to her home.
The season 1 was hosted by VJ Rannvijay Singh, the winner of MTV Roadies Season-1.
Contestants
Girls
- Aarti
- Akanksha
- Annie
- Anubha
- Bianca
- Bosky
- Hannah
- Heena
- Hena
- Hoorzan
- Kanika
- Minakshi
- Prianca
- Richa
- Ritu
- Shraddha (Winner)
- Shruti
- Simran
- Sneh Richa
- Vani
- Yamini
Boys
- Varun
- Vishal(Winner)
Of the final three (Shraddha, Heena and Prianca), Shraddha emerged as the winner and became the queen of "Splitsvilla". Shraddha then goes on to choose Vishal. Though the decision wasn't finally Shraddha's. Vishal, the champion was challenged by Varun, the challenger. They had to fight over 3 contests and the winner of 2 out of 3 was to be declared the ultimate winner. Vishal came out a clear winner by winning the first two in which the first victory saw Vishal beating Varun in Varun's territory.
Winners Shraddha and Vishal got to host a weekly show on MTV India, titled MTV Couplesutra which is a 10-minute show in which they discuss one "reel-life"[clarification needed] couple, one real-life couple and one break-up. Prianca joined an acting school in Mumbai. Bosky appeared in a parody-film "Cheque De India" (a take on the Bollywood film Chak De India), and Bianca and Simran appeared in "Bechaare Zameen Par" (a take on the Bollywood film Taare Zameen Par) both of which were aired on MTV. Vishal, currently, plays the male lead in the show Bhagyavidhaata aired on Colors TV.
Season 2
The Season-2 of Splitsvilla had 9 boys and 9 girls selected from auditions. The first episode of the show was aired on March 7, 2009. This season is hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinapa.
Boys
Siddharth Bhardwaj (King) WINNER
Mohit Malhotra (Ex-King, lost to Siddharth in challenge round) RUNNER UP
Paramvir Singh Baidwan (Ninth Dumped)
Bhav Aman Singh (Eighth Dumped)
Rahul Dwivedi(Sixth Dumped)
Aman Sharma(Fifth Dumped)
Meherzaan B Mazda (Quit because of illness)
Ashutosh Kataria(Fourth Dumped)
Suyash (Third Dumped)
Varun Jhamb(Second Dumped. Re-entered. Seventh dumped)
Girls
Sakshi PradhanWINNER
Joanna Magee (Queen) RUNNER UP
Stuti Nag (Ninth Dumped)
Ritika Nainta (Eighth Dumped)
Sakshi Bhayana (Second Dumped. Re-entered. Seventh dumped)
Nalini Negi (Sixth Dumped)
Shikha Taneja (Fifth Dumped)
Cheshta Bhagat (Fourth Dumped)
Minakshi Negi (Third Dumped)
Swaagata G Shah (First Dumped)
Siddharth and Sakshi Pradhan defeated Joanna Magee and Mohit Malhotra by one vote in the finals aired on June 14, 2009. Siddharth is a part of show MTV Stripped aired on MTV India.
Season 3
As per latest reports, Season 3 is on the look out for 5 unmarried couples and 10 singles. This season is rumoured to be shot internationally with a prize money of INR 10 lakhs. The third season is being shot in Phuket,Thailand.It will start on December 19th,2009.You can see it on every Saturday at 7:00 p.m
Controversies after Splitsvilla 2
Sexual Exploitation
A month after the second season of Splitsvilla ended, some of the contestants claimed that the show’s crew members had engaged in sexual acts with other contestants.
Swaagata G Shah, a contestant from Season 2, claimed in a tabloid that there were exchanges of sexual favors between contestants and important people of the production team, including anchor Nikhil Chinappa, to get undue advantages in the contest. [1] Later, contestants Varun Jhamb and Nalini Negi who had been eliminated early on in the show, alleged that ‘some crew members, including the director, had slept in the same room as top contender Joanna Magee, and others engaged in sexual favours, especially towards the end.'
In response, Nikhil Chinappa said, ‘I don’t want to comment on it. The channel will come out with an official statement soon. After all, it’s about the channel’s image and mine.’ Rajiv Laxman (creative director of the show) said: ‘I firmly disagree with these allegations. We have strict rules that prevent the mingling of the crew with the cast. Swagata was the first contestant to be eliminated and didn’t even spend a night at the villa. She doesn’t have any inkling of the way things work there.’
Racial Slur
One of the contestants on the show Mohit Malhotra, has been accused of using a racial slur after he called, Siddharth Bhardwaj, a "Nepali with 'chinky' eyes". This has caused obvious discomfort to India's North East Community, many of whom have oriental facial features. Though the show is unscripted, the network and the sponsors have been accused of supporting such racial slurs by not bleeping the content after they decided to air it.[2]
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