MTV Roadies
| MTV Roadies | |
|---|---|
 MTV Roadies 5.0 logo | |
| Genre | Reality show |
| Presented by | Cyrus Sahukar Season 1 Rannvijay Singh Season 2 to Season 5 Ayushmann Khuranna Season 6 |
| Country of origin |  India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Raghu Ram |
| Production locations | India Season 1 to 4 India,Thailand,Malaysia Season 5 India, Australia Season 6 |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV India |
| Release | 2008 |
MTV Roadies is a reality television show which airs on MTV India. The show was created by Raghu Ram and is hosted by Rannvijay. When asked about the show, Raghu said, "Roadies has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism..."[1]
Selection Procedure
Auditions are held in various major cities in India. People who turn up for the audition are made to undergo a group discussion, following which, selected candidates are chosen for personal interview conducted by 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 are being selected.
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 roadie, 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 episode. The above mentioned tasks are either team-based (ie performed between two or more teams) or individual-based (ie 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 till date
- Season 1 - There was no official winner but Rannvijay, who was among the two finalists from this season went on to become a MTV VJ and host the following seasons.
- Season 2 - Ayushmann Khuranna from Chandigarh
- Season 3 - Parul Shahi from Delhi
- Season 4 - Anthony Yeh from Kolkata
- Season 5 - Ashutosh Kaushik from Saharanpur
MTV Roadies Season 6
MTV Roadies 6 officially known as MTV Roadies Hell Down Under is season 6 of this show. This season will take place in India and Australia.
References
- ^ Liza George (2006-09-08). "Tough guys last the course". Hindu newspaper. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ^ "MTV Roadies Inspired?". Retrieved 2008-05-19.