MTV Splitsvilla

MTV Splitsvilla
Splitsvilla 3 Logo Hot as Hell
Genre	Reality show
Created by	Purvish Bhatt
No. of seasons	7
Production
Executive producers	Luke Wienecke Justin Cousson Isaac Hirsch
Production locations	Season 1 - Goa Season 2 - Goa Season 3 - Pattaya Season 4 - Dubai Season 5 - Jim Corbett National Park Season 6 - Kerala Season 7 - Jaipur
Original release
Network	MTV India
Release	2008 – Present

MTV Splitsvilla, is an Indian television reality show that airs on MTV India. The series is based on the American dating reality show Flavor of Love.

Summary

The reality show revolves around young boys and girls try to secure a place in Splitsvilla which is a "Villa". It's a 'hunt for love' show where boys and girls compete in tasks to stay in the competition and mingle with the contestants to find love. In the end, one boy and one girl are crowned the winners of Splitsvilla (they are a couple.) There are a lot of fights, jealousy, hatred, friendship, backstabbing and love when all these 16 wild contestants get together. There is also a King and Queen that have dumping powers.

Season 1

The season 1 was hosted by VJ Rannvijay Singh, the winner of MTV Roadies Season 1. In this season, two boys, Varun Saini, a former 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 grueling "tests". The girls battle stress, politics, exhaustion, fear, bitchiness and other such emotional challenges to be the chosen one and avoid humiliation of getting dumped. The girl who is dumped leaves the show. In this manner, a winner is selected.

Contestants

Girls

• Aarti Thaokar- Dumped
• Akanksha - Dumped
• Annie Krislinzki - Dumped
• Anubha - Dumped
• Bianca Mendonca - Dumped
• Bosky Bhatia - Dumped
• Hannah - Dumped
• Heena Pardasani - Dumped
• Hoorzan Irani - Dumped
• Kanika Narbar - Dumped
• Minakshi Khanduri - Dumped
• Prianca Sharma - Dumped
• Richa Singh - Dumped
• Ritu Kochhar - Dumped
• Shraddha Haribhai (Winner)
• Shruti Rawat - Dumped
• Simran Dhawan - Dumped
• Sneh Richa- Dumped
• Vani - Dumped
• Yamini Batra- Dumped

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" couple, one real-life couple and one break-up. Prianca joined an acting school in Mumbai. Bianca and Simran appeared in "Bechaare Zameen Par" (a take on the Bollywood film Taare Zameen Par which was aired on MTV). Vishal played the male lead in the show "Rishtonse Badi Pratha" aired on Colors TV.

Season 2

The Season 2 of Splitsvilla had 10 boys and 10 girls selected from auditions. This season was hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinappa.

Summary

Female

Male

Winner

Dumped

Withdrew

Eliminated

BOYS

Name	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Siddharth Bhardwaj	NONE	WINNER of Mtv Splitsvilla Won by the majority of votes from the eliminated contestants in the finale	WINNER
Mohit Malhotra	NONE	Runner Up Lost to Siddharth in the challenge round.	ELIMINATED
Paramvir Singh	Siddharth	11th boy to get dumped	DUMPED
Bhav Aman Singh	Joanna	1st dumped, Re-entered, 10th boy to get dumped	DUMPED
Varun Jhamb	Joanna	2nd boy dumped , Re-entered, 9th boy to get dumped	DUMPED
Rahul Dwivedi	Joanna	8th boy to get dumped	DUMPED
Aman Sharma	Joanna	6th boy to get dumped	DUMPED
Meherzaan B Mazda	Joanna	Quit because of illness.	WITHDREW
Ashutosh Kataria	Joanna	4th boy to get dumped.	DUMPED
Suyash Kumar	Joanna	3rd dumped by Joanna.	DUMPED

GIRLS

Name	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Sakshi Pradhan	NONE	WINNER of Mtv Splitsvilla Won by the majority of votes from the eliminated contestants in the finale	WINNER
Joanna Magee	NONE	Runner Up Lost to Sakshi in the challenge round.	ELIMINATED
Stuti Nag	Siddarth	8th girl to get dumped	DUMPED
Ritika Nainta	Siddarth	7th girl to get dumped	DUMPED
Sakshi Bhayana	Siddarth	2nd dumped by Mohit, Re-entered, 6th girl to get dumped	DUMPED
Nalini Negi	Siddarth	5th girl to get dumped	DUMPED
Shikha Taneja	Siddarth	4th girl to get dumped	DUMPED
Cheshta Bhagat	Mohit	3rd girl to get dumped.	DUMPED
Meenakshi Negi	Mohit	2nd girl to get dumped.	DUMPED
Swaagata G Shah	Mohit	1st girl to get dumped	DUMPED

10 Princes

• Siddharth Bhardwaj - The Ultimate King
• Mohit Malhotra - Runner up
• Paramvir Singh Baidwan - (11th dumped by Joanna)
• Bhav Aman Singh - (10th dumped by Joanna)
• Rahul Dwivedi - (8th dumped by Joanna)
• Aman Sharma - (6th dumped by Joanna)
• Meherzaan B Mazda - (Quit because of illness)
• Ashutosh Kataria - (4th dumped by Joanna)
• Suyash Kumar - (3rd dumped by Joanna)
• Varun Jhamb - (2nd dumped by Joanna, Re-entered, 9th dumped by Joanna)

10 Princesses

• Sakshi Pradhan - The Ultimate Queen
• Joanna Magee - Runner up
• Stuti Nag - (11th dumped))
• Ritika Nainta - (10th dumped by Siddharth)
• Sakshi Bhayana - (2nd dumped by Mohit, Re-entered, 7th dumped by Siddharth)
• Nalini Negi - (7th Eliminated)
• Shikha Taneja - (6th dumped by Siddharth)
• Chestha Bhagat - (5th dumped by Mohit)
• Meenakshi Negi - (3rd dumped by Mohit)
• Swaagata G Shah - (1st dumped by Mohit)

Season 3

In Season 3, there were 5 couples, 5 single boys and 5 single girls who came to stay in the villa.

Season 4

The Season 4 of Splitsvilla had 4 boys and 13 girls selected from auditions. The first episode of the show was aired on December 3, 2010. This season was hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinapa.

Format The girls were divided into 4 groups(Qabilah) which were headed by each boy.

Summary

Female

Male

Winner

Dumped

Eliminated

KINGS	Status
Dushyant Yadav	WINNER
Manish Khanna	ELIMINATED
Saiprasad Gundewar	ELIMINATED
Ashish Choudhary	ELIMINATED

DUSHYANT'S QABILAH

Girls	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Priya Shinde	None	1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th episode's Queen. Awarded as Master Mind of Splitsvilla 4	WINNER
Aakriti Bhamri	Ashish	3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th episode's Queen. 11th dumped by Ashish	DUMPED
Ruchita Rao	Ashish	3rd dumped by Ashish, Returned, 5th dumped by Ashish	DUMPED

SAI'S QABILAH

Girls	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Tina Thapa	None	6th episode's Queen) ' RUNNERS UP	ELIMINATED
Yashita Sahu	Sai	6th episode's Queen. 1st dumped by Manish,returned, 12th dumped by Sai	DUMPED
Sanjana Bhatia	Dushyant	3rd, 5th, 6th episode's Queen. 9th dumped by Dushyant	DUMPED

MANISH'S QABILAH

Girls	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Pooja Bisht	None	8th, 9th, 12th episode's Queen	ELIMINATED
Payal Thapa	Dushyant	2nd, 4th episode's Queen. 8th dumped by Dushyant	DUMPED
Dimple Chawla	Ashish	1st, 2nd, 4th episode's Queen. 7th dumped by Ashish	DUMPED

ASHISH'S QABILAH

Girls	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Archana Choudhary	Manish	1st, 2nd, 4th, 11th episode's Queen. 13th dumped by Manish	DUMPED
Sohfi	Dushyant	5th, 7th episode's Queen. 2nd dumped by Manish,returned, 10th Dumped by Dushyant	DUMPED
Vartika Kaul	Sai	3rd, 5th episode's Queen. 6th dumped by Sai	DUMPED
Srishttii Gupta	Manish	3rd episode's Queen. 4th dumped by Manish	DUMPED

FINALE

A roulette game based on luck was played between the three pairs of finalists: Manish and Pooja, Sai and Tina, and Dushyant and Priya. This first task was won by Sai and Tina who went directly to the finals. The second task was between Manish-Pooja and Dushyant-Priya on who would join Sai-Tina for the final task. This was an obstacle task. This was won by Dushyant-Priya who next joined Sai-Tina in the final face-off. The final task was won by Dushyant-Priya, and hence were declared the winners of Splitsvilla 4.

Season 5

The season began at the beginning of April, with 8 girls, and eight boys. Contrary to the last two seasons, this season has been set in Uttarakhand, India. The villa is located somewhere outside the Jim Corbett National Park. Up till now, all tasks have been set in the national park. The season was hosted by Nikhil Chinapa. The season finale was aired on 24 June 2012 on MTV India. The final competition to win Splitsvilla 5 title was fought between Vroon and Jasmine as a couple and Paras and Akanksha as the other. Paras and Akanksha went on to win the title of Splitsvilla 5- Love Gone Wild.

Summary

Female

Male

Winner

Dumped

Eliminated

Girls

Girls	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Akanksha Popli	None	Earlier dumped by Vroon, came back and paired with Paras to defeat Vroon and Jasmine in finals.	WINNER
Jasmine Avasia	None	Coupled with Vroon and lost to Paras and Akanksha in final	Runner Up
Rupa Khurana	None	Defeated Shivangini, the on time queen to become queen and got defeated in semi-final	2nd Runner Up
Vidushi Khanna	Vroon	Dumped by Vroon over Akanksha and Jasmine in Top4, earlier Avishka Kashyap exchanged with her to get dump.	DUMPED
Shivangini Rajyalaxmi Rana	3 votes	Became the queen lost to Rupa to loose throne and then dumped by boys of villa.	DUMPED
Tasneem	Vroon	Dumped by Vroon over Shivangini.	DUMPED
Swati Bakshi	Vroon	Dumped by Vroon over Tasneem.	DUMPED
Mandakranta Debbarma a.k.a Mandy	Shivangni	Competed for Queen with Shivangini, then dumped by Shivangini	DUMPED
Avishka Kashyap	Vroon	Dumped by Vroon in first episode and then came back then gave her place to Vidhushi to get dumped.	DUMPED

Boys

Boys	Dumped by	Notes	Status
Paras Chhabra	None	Earlier dumped by Shivangini, came back and then paired with Akanksha to defeat Vroon and Jasmine in final	WINNER
Vroon Sharma	None	Coupled with Jasmine and lost to Paras and Akanksha in final	Runner Up
Nitin Chauhan	None	Coupled with Rupa, and lost to Paras and Akanksha in semi-final	2nd Runner Up
Rishabh Sinha	Rupa	Popularly known as Junglee on the show,competed with Vroon for throne,dumped by Rupa over Nitin and Paras.	DUMPED
Rishipal Gulati a.k.a Rishi	Rupa	Earlier dumped by Shivangini, came back and then dumped by Rupa, over Rishabh.	DUMPED
Ali Abbas Gori	Rupa	Dumped by Rupa over Rishi	DUMPED
Nikhil Nagpal	Rupa	Dumped by Rupa over Nitin.	DUMPED
Saif Mir	Rupa	Dumped by Shivangini	DUMPED
Sikander Dhawan	Shivangni	Dumped by Shivangini	DUMPED

Season 6

This season was premiered on May 25th and was hosted by Sherlyn Chopra and Nikhil Chinappa. It is tagged as "Hot as Hell". There are 9 males and 9 females in Splitsvilla 6. This season also had a review show for each episode titled "Sexy Sana" hosted by Sana Saeed(Actress).

GIRLS:

• Shatakshi Joshi (Runner up)
• Priyanka Chauhan (Eliminated by the Splitsvillians)
• Subuhi Joshi (Eliminated by Prabhjot and Shatakshi)
• Pari Sahni (Eliminated - Dumped by Param)
• Ruby Dahiya (Eliminated - Dumped by Param)
• Mandy Debbarma (From Splits villa-5) (Ultimate Queen)
• Peenaz Ahmed (Eliminated - Dumped by Param)
• Priyanka Chander(Eliminated - Dumped by Nitin)
• Purvee Singh(Elimintaed-Dumped by Param)

BOYS:

• Prabhjot Sahota (Runner Up)
• Nitin Sharma (Eliminated - Dumped by Mandy)
• Gaurav Chopra (Elimianted by Prabhjot and Shatakshi)
• Paramvir Singh (from Splitsvilla-2) (Ultimate King)
• Aman Dev Pahwa (Eliminated - Dumped by Subuhi)
• Ashwini Koul (Re-entered &Eliminated by the Splitsvillians )
• Parichay Sharma (Eliminated - Dumped by Mandy)
• Arjit Taneja (Eliminted-Dumped by Mandy)

• Nawab Faizi(Eliminated - Dumped by Ruby)

Season 7

The season 7 started in June, 2014 and the show is being hosted by Sunny Leone and Nikhil Chinappa. There are 7 males and 20 females in Splitsvilla 7.

Contestants

Girls

• Apurva Singh
• Damanjit Grewal
• Etansha Gupta
• Heena Koranga
• Jacqueline Ledli
• Khushi Bhat
• Kriti Lohia
• Mukti Chopra
• Palak Purswani
• Pooja Mishra
• Priyanka Purohit
• Rashi Sharma
• Rosemary Fernandes
• Sanjana Ganesan
• Savita Dokwal
• Scarlett Rose
• Simran Mahendrawal
• Snoove Das
• Sonali Katyal
• Unnati Pathak

Boys

• Abhishek Malik
• Ashwini Koul
• Ayaz Ahmed
• Mayank Gandhi
• Mayank Pawar
• Rishabh Sinha
• Madhana Gopal

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. 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 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.

Another such incident took place in the fourth season, when Aakriti had a verbal fight with Payal. The racial slur that was used was beeped out and later Nikhil Chinappa at the dumping ground raised the issue telling Aakriti not to "advertise her ignorance anymore" and that serious actions will be taken if it happens hereafter.

External links

MTV Splitsvilla 7 Contestants