MTV Roadies season 8

*MTV Roadies season 8*
MTV Roadies season 8
Genre	Reality show
Created by	Biraj B Choudhury (Bumpy)
Presented by	Rannvijay Singh
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	8
Production
Executive producer	Raghu Ram
Production locations	Brazil, India
Original release
Network	MTV India

MTV Roadies Shortcut To Hell is the eighth season of MTV Roadies, a reality television show aired on MTV India. The season 8 of roadies was also known as "Shortcut To Hell" because the second half of season took place in Brazil. The audition episodes were aired from 22 January 2011 and the journey episodes began airing on 5 March 2011. Its auditions were held in various cities of India, like Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Delhi and Pune. The audition is done by Raghu Ram, Rajiv Laxman and Rannvijay.

Auditions

Following roadies got selected from various cities:

Chandigarh auditions

Anamika Dutta
Mohit Saggar
Rahul Sheoran

Delhi auditions

Renne Dhyani
Anchal Khurana
Suchit Vikram Singh
Avtar Nischal

Kolkata Auditions

Prachi Agarwal

Ahmedabad auditions

Chandani Joshi

Pune auditions

Pooja Banerjee
Nagesh(Suraj) Chinnadore

Bangalore auditions

Devendra Singh (The first married Roadie)

In addition to above candidates, Vibhor Sharma, winner of roadies Battleground 3 got directly selected in this season.

Episode 1: 05-Mar-2011

All the thirteen contestants arrived in Bangalore and met each other. Renee and Prachi got into an argument. Rannvijay then entered and asked a few questions. Later he asked them to select the biggest loser amongst them. Suraj got selected. Later he was asked to elect a leader. Finally Suraj selected Dev.

The roadies then got a scroll to put on their dancing shoes. That night they partied and after a photo shoot with Rannvijay, they realized that they are partying in the vote-out location, where Raghu & Rajeev were also present. Everyone wrote a guy's & a girl's name. They voted like this:

Suchit - Suraj & Prachi
Renee - Suraj & Prachi
Anchal - Mohit & Prachi
Prachi - Suraj & Renee
Mohit - Rahul & Prachi
Suraj - Suchit & Anchal
Avtar - Mohit & Chandni
Rahul - Avtar & Anchal
Chandni - Avtar & Renee
Pooja - Rahul & Renee
Anamika - Avtar & Anchal
Vibhor - Mohit & Prachi
Dev - Rahul & Chandni

Prachi got 5 votes & there was a tie between Avtar, Suraj, Mohit & Rahul. A wild-card draw voted Avtar voted out. Then Raghu announced that they were actually immune and they will select three roadies each to compete and one of the selected six will be voted out in the next episode.

Episode 2: 12-Mar-2011

In this episode Avtar chose Suchit, Mohit and Rahul to compete in the rock climbing immunity task. Also Renee, Anchal and Chandni were selected by Prachi to compete in the same task. Rahul and Mohit couldn’t complete the challenge. Only Suchit completed the challenge so he became immune. In girls none could complete the challenge but Chandni was better than Anchal in the competition so she became immune too. Prachi had a big fight with Avtar. Then finally on vote out Rahul got voted out. Dev and Avtar were revealed to be plotting against all others by staging a fight.
Roadie voted out - Rahul(by 6 votes)

Episode 3: 19-Mar-2011

The roadies went to Deogiri for their next tasks.

Money Task

The Roadies were divided into three groups of 4. One in each team was asked not to compete. So, Dev, Puja & Anchal were left out. Of the rest, one was supposed to find some work for the other to do in exchange for some food items. The third had to make good deals on SnapDeal.com based on the items they collect. Suraj (Worker), Avtar (Collector) and Mohit (Seller) were the only qualified team. The others were disqualified. Avtar, Suraj and Mohit were able to collect Rs. 8,400.

Immunity Task

The Roadies were asked to pair-up (Girl-Boy) with the one who they hated. The girls were asked questions and if they got it wrong, the partner (boy) will get a bikini wax (Brazilian wax). Dev backed out, so Renee could not compete. After many rounds Anamika-Vibhor won immunity.

Roadie voted out - Avtar(by 8 votes)

Episode 4: 26-Mar-2011

For the next tasks, Readies travelled to Belgaum. Dev was in trouble due to Avtar’s revelation at the previous vote-out. Pooja was made captain.

Money Task

The Roadies had to go against Lajja Goswami on a shooting challenge to earn money. Lajja would shoot and the roadies in pair have to match her score. Each point was worth Rs.1000. The deficit has to earned by Suchit(The one left out without a pair) by letting two bodybuilders, hit him on his behind with a bat. The scores were -
1. Lajja - 8 against Dev - 2 and Mohit - 4. Suchit earned 2.
2. Lajja - 9 against Renee - 0 and Anchal - 0. Suchit refused to get hit.
3. Lajja - 10 against Pooja - 0 and Anamika - 8. Suchit earned 2.
4. Lajja - 10 against Vibhor - 2 and Suraj - 7. Suchit earned 1.
5. Lajja - 10 against Prachi - 8 and Chandini - 0. Suchit earned 2.
Finally Suchit shot a 9 and the others had to get 9 hits to earn R.9000 more. The money earned was Rs. 47,000. Total in the account is now - Rs. 56,400.
In their room, Suchit got a black box, which had a Vardhan or a Shrap which will be revealed later. He was given a choice to keep it or give it to another roadie. He kept it and got a shrap (curse) that he can't participate in the immunity task and he was not safe in the voteout.

Immunity Task

The roadies were made into two teams. Team 1{Pooja, Anamika, Vibor , Dev & Renee} and Team 2{Suraj, Mohit, Anchal, Prachi & Chandini} had to do pull a bullock cart, which lacked a wheel and the bullocks from start to finish. A member from other team will put weight on it to make the task difficult. Vibhor & Pooja became the bulls and Dev became the wheel. Chandini added weights. They did not finish as Dev fell down. In the next team, Suraj & Anchal became the bulls and Mohit became the wheel. Anamika added weights. They finished and won immunity.
Roadie voted out - Dev(by 8 votes)

Episode 5: 2-Apr-2011

For the next task, Roadies travelled to Kolhapur. Renee was made captain. On Rannvijay's request, she selected Chandini as the co-captain

Special Task

Rannvijay asked them to form two teams.
A - Renee, Suchit, Mohit, Anchal & Prachi
B - Chandini, Anamika, Pooja, Suraj & Vibhor.

For this task, Raghu and Rajiv met the roadies. They were insulted for their lack of courage and guts. Then they were given two options. Take a shortcut for the next task or play normally. They were told that if the team selected shortcut & lost, their lives will be made miserable. Also if they go the normal route and the other team takes a shortcut and wins, their life will be made miserable again.

After some consideration, both teams decided that they will take a shortcut to victory. The task was simple match the following. On one column were events/organizations and they had to be matched with the people. The team with shortest time would win. For every correct match, 5s will be deducted from their total time & for every wrong one, 10s will be added.

Both team played separately and matched -

Event/Org - Team A - Team B

Lala Lajpat Rai - Bipin Chandra Pal - Bipin Chandra Pal
Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Azad Hind Fauj - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose - Chandrasekar Azad

Vande Mataram - Bakim Chandra Chaterjee - Bakim Chandra Chaterjee

Dandi March - M K Gandhi - M K Gandhi

Sardar Vallabai Patel - Iron Man of India - Iron Man of India

Grand Old Man of India - Dada Bhai Naoroji - Dada Bhai Naoroji

Khilafat Movement - Maulana Mohamad Ali - Maulana Mohamad Ali

Sepoy Mutiny - Mangal Pandey - Mangal Pandey

Hindustan Socialist - Chandrasekar Azad - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Republic Association

Jallianwala Bagh - Brigdler General, Reging Dyer - Brigdler General, Reging Dyer

Team A managed to match all correctly in 6:20 min. Team B made two mistakes and finished in around 2:42 min. After the time adjustments, Team B won. When they asked what shortcut they had used, all were puzzled. Raghu then demonstrated. He matched randomly in few seconds. After the penalty seconds addition, he still won. This he said was the shortcut. All were ashamed.

As Team A had lost, they were asked to make pair up boy-girl for their next task. Suchit chose Renee and Mohit chose Anchal.

Episode 6: 9-Apr-2011

The next task was the immunity task for the losing team of the special task. Among the pair, one had to set themself on fire and run for a max of 20 sec. The other roadie had to cut planks of woods with the axe. If the roadie on fire gives up before 20 sec, the other roadie has to stop cutting. The girls decide to lite themselves and the boys decide to cut.

Mohit could cut 9 planks and Suchit could cut 11 planks in 20sec. After this Raghu declared that Renee-Suchit were not immune yet. Parchi was then given an opportunity to find a partner from the other immune team to compete. She chose Anamika, who gave up her immunity to help her. Anamika managed to cut 12 planks and won the immunity back. For this performance, she won a Karizma Bike

The vote-out saw some twists. Raghu declared that two people will leave. Prachi was asked to select one of the other pairs who performed the task. She chose Suchit-Renee. Mohit & Anchal were asked to vote-out one of them and the other will vote-out one among Mohit and Anchal. There was a tie as Mohit chose Renee and Aanchal chose Suchit, so Prachi was asked to select a member form immune roadies by lucky draw. She selected Suraj. He eliminated Renee. Suchit was then asked to eliminate a roadie from the other pair. He selected Anchal.

Renee lashed out against Suraj and then Prachi for the vote-out.

Roadies voted out - Renee and Anchal

Episode 7: 16-Apr-2011

The next destination for the roadies was Satara.

Money Task

For this task, the guys were asked to defend themselves against the boxer, Vijender Singh in a enclosed box. They had to face 3 rounds each. They were paid for each second they faced in the ring. Suchit managed 5 seconds and 35 milliseconds
Mohit managed 4 seconds and 38 milliseconds
Vibhor managed 5 seconds and 18 milliseconds
Suraj managed 5 seconds and 66 milliseconds
They had total of 20 seconds and 57 milliseconds and got 5000 for each seconds. They won Rs. 1,05,000. Total money in account - Rs. 1,60,400

In the hotel, Radhika Palace, Roadies got a grand welcome. Later Suraj was given the black box which had shrap and vardhan.

Karizma Advantage Task

There was no immunity task and all were declared immune. Suraj gave the black box to Prachi. As a shrap, she lost her immunity. As the vardhan, she was asked to select a opponent. She chose Chandini. They formed a team of three and all lost their immunity
A - Prachi, Suchit & Mohit
B - Chandini, Pooja & Suraj
Only Anamika & Vibhor were immune. On two poles, a box and a key kept. Prachi and Chandini were suspended on a rope and had to swing and pick the key and then open the box. Their respective timers were the other two roadies on a bike. A rider had to drive slowly on a path without putting the leg down with a pavilion rider.
Both Prachi & Chandini could not finish. Prachi's rider, Mohit drove for 42 sec. Chandini's rider, Suraj drove for 1:49 min, So Chandini won. Later Rannvijay demonstrated the technique to do the task.
For his riding, Suraj won a Karizma bike.

Vote-Out

As the winner of the challenge, Chandini got 3 votes at the vote-out. She was asked to keep her votes in 3 separate columns. The Other roadies were asked to keep their vote in one of the pile till it reached 3. Suraj did not get to vote as he refused to give up his Karizma. Rannvijay said that one of the piles would be used for the vote-out. Suraj was asked to pick the pile. He selected col 2. His second choice was col 1, to be used in case of no tie in col 2.
Col 1 - Mohit, Mohit, Mohit
Col 2 - Mohit, Prachi, Prachi
Col 3 - Mohit, Chandini, Prachi

Roadie voted out - Prachi Agarwal

Episode 8: 23-Apr-2011

The next destination for the roadies was Pune. Chandini became the captain. It was the last destination in India. Next stop is Brazil. The episode started with a vote-out, where Mohit was voted-out. Later Raghu appeared with a twist. The flashback-

Revenge for vote-out Task I

This task was the current roadies versus the ex-roadies, where the ex-roadies had a chance at revenge and take money from roadies account. It was a sort of Kabaddi match. The roadies were asked to defend their money. Their account money was rounded to Rs. 2,00,000.
A bag with Rs. 15,000 would be kept on one side of the crease. A roadie or an ex-roadie would have to pick it up and run across to the other end. Two ex-roadies or roadies would stop them.

Rahul against Mohit & Suchit. He lost and roadies saved their money
Anchal against Pooja & Anamika. She lost and roadies saved their money
Avtar against Mohit & Suchit. He lost and roadies saved their money
Renee against Pooja & Anamika. She lost and roadies saved their money
Mohit against Rahul & Avtar. He won and roadies saved their money
Pooja against Anchal & Renee. She lost and roadies lost Rs. 15,000
Suchit against Rahul & Avtar. He won and roadies saved their money
Anamika against Anchal & Renee. She lost and roadies lost Rs. 15,000

They then went back to the same hotel and had some friction between them.

Revenge for vote-out Task II

Roadies had to go through another task to save their money. This time it was blackjack with Raghu as their dealer. Dev and Vibhor went to play with Rs. 1,30,000 each. After 5 rounds of playing, Roadies lost another 30,000. Their account money was reduced to Rs. 1,40,000.

Vote-Out

After Mohit's vote-out, Raghu appeared and bring in a twist. He gave Mohit an option to trade all the roadies' money for his immunity. He took it. The account money got reduced to zero and another vote-out happened.

Roadie voted out - Chandini(by 5 votes)

Episode 9: 30-April-2011

The roadies flew to São Paulo, Brazil and voted Mohit their next captain. They enjoyed some time enjoying the place and then went for their money task.

Money Task

The Roadies were asked to form words with some letters. The letters were written on bodies for two girls and a guy covered in chilli paste. Anamika and Pooja decided to lick the girls and Suraj licked the guy to get the letters. Vibhor, with Mohit and Suchit's help made words. They got Rs. 1000 for 3-lettered words, Rs. 2000 for 4-lettered words and Rs. 3000 for 5-lettered words. They won a total of 85,000.

Immunity Task

The roadies were surprised by Raghu with a few wild-card entries. Tamanna & Paulomi from Roadies 6.0 and Ashutosh & Nihal from Radies 5.0 joined the team. Raghu declared that they cannot be voted-out and they will be a huge part in the tasks for the other roadies.

The immunity task was saving goals made by profession football players. This task was for the roadies' immunity but performed by ex-roadies. Paulomi refused to do the task and Tamanna demanded a Karizma forperforming. Later she agreed to do it without it. All three missed the goals. Finally, Nihal & Ashutosh together saved a goal and won one immunity. They were asked to decide who they would give it to.

but dont know what song was played in background during football task

Vote-Out

In the vote-out, the ex-roadies gave the immunity to Mohit. After a vote-out, there was a tie between Vibhor and Suraj. The ex-roadies were asked to vote to settle the tie.

Roadie voted out - Vibhor(by 3 votes)

Episode 10: 7-May-2011

For their next tasks, the roadies & ex-roadies went to Rio de Janeiro. This time Anamika was voted the captain.

Money Task

The roadies and ex-roadies went to a auditorium where a rock-concert was being held. For the money task, the boys were asked to get a nude portrait done during the rock concert while the audience were still watching. Suraj backed-out. Mohit & Suchit got it done and won Rs. 2,00,000. The total in the account is now Rs. 2,85,000.

After the task, the roadies went back to their room where they got a black-box. It has 2 curse and 1 blessing. Anamika got it and she got a option of keeping it or giving it away. All taunted Suraj for giving up.

Immunity Task

At the immunity task location, Anamika declared that she wants to keep the box. The 2 shraps were, she was not immune and she has to participate in the task. The vardhan would be told to her later. The roadies were asked to make two teams. The teams were, Mohit-Suchit and Suraj-Pooja. Anamika was tied to a circle and she became the target for paint-ball gun.

The ex-roadies were asked to fire. Each team were asked to pull the circles and save Anamika from being targeted. Paulomi refused to participate, so other three ex-roadies played. Mohit-Suchit saved more shots, so they won the immunity task.

The Vardhan was revealed. Anamika now had to select one among them to be immune.

Vote-Out

In the vote-out, the ex-roadies also voted. Anamika made Suchit immune. To save himself, Suraj gave Tamana his bike. The votes were - Suraj-4, Mohit-4 and Pooja-1. Nihal had voted for Pooja, so he was asked to vote again.

Roadie voted out - Suraj(by 5 votes)

Episode 11: 14-May-2011

For their next tasks, the roadies & ex-roadies went to Poços de Caldas. It was a wild-card entry task for already voted-out roadies.

Wild-Card Task

The roadies selected for wild card were Reene, Anchal, Rahul and Dev. Rannvijay declared that one guy and one girl would enter the competition again. The task to be done needed teams. It was girls vs the guys. A rope would hang one of the girl/guy and hands would be tied behind and would stand on a trapdoor. He/She has to untie the knot and remove the rope. Meanwhile, his/her team-member would be holding the trap door from below while high-pressure water would be sprayed on them.

Dev decided to be the hangman and Rahul stood below. They finished the task in 1 minute and 33 seconds. Then Anchal decided to be the hangman and Reene held the trap door. They finished the task in 1 minute and 12 seconds.

After the task, Dev got all worked up and started screaming at Suchit that he will hit him. In the hotel, he got into a fight with Suchit.

Raghu's special Task

After the fight, Raghu met with all and announced that he is very angry with Dev for hitting Suchit. He gave Suchit a chance to get back at him. Both Suchit & Dev's hands were tied up. They had to kick each other and make the other fall. Suchit would win if Dev falls 3 times. Dev would win if Suchit falls 7 times. Suchit's victory would be considered as Rahul's victory.

In the first round, no one fell. So the rules were modified slightly. Each round was to last 3 minutes. If no one falls, the number of fall needed will be reduced for both. In the 2nd round, Dev fell once and then he gave up and Suchit won.

Vote-In

For the vote-in, the roadies were asked to vote and decided which guy should return to roadies. Rahul was selected unanimously. The ex-roadies had to select between the girls. This caused a huge rift between Reene and Anchal. Finally it was a tie. Reene and Anchal selected Pooja to be the tiebreaker and she selected Anchal.

Roadies voted in - Anchal and Rahul
Roadies sent back - Reene and Dev

Episode 12: 21-May-2011

For their next tasks, the roadies & ex-roadies went to Juiz de Fora. Mohit beacame the captain.

Money Task

For the money task, the girls were asked to observe a street Samba dance. The guys were asked to rest as the task was for just the girls. They had to prepare and Samba on the street. The crowd around the market were given beads. The girls were asked to get it from them after the dance. The girls got a 2-hour dance lesson. Anchal went first and she did the task well. Anamika went next, but it was not great and got criticized by Tamana. Pooja went next and did extreamly well.When pooja came , she suddenly slipped. But that girl didn't loose the spirit. She stood up and continued dancing. All people were cheering for $pooja$. Everybody enjoys her performance. Aanchal & Anamika has to go to people to get the beads. But, when pooja completes the task, people came to her and covered with beads. Anchal got 26 beads. Anamika got 23 and Pooja got 66. Only hers were counted and given Rs. 1,500 for each bead. The roadies account now has Rs. 2,85,000 + 99,000 = 3,84,000

Back in the room

When the roadies went back to the room, a scroll came. It asked Ashuthosh & Paulomi to leave. Tamana was visible upset. After that another scroll came that asked the roadies to form 2 groups. After some heated discussions, the groups were made.
A - Anamika, Pooja, Mohit & Nihal
B - Anchal, Suchit, Rahul & Tamana

The teams went to a old train junk-yard and entered two different compartments. Raghu and Rajiv were waiting for them.

Episode 13: 28-May-2011

After the encounter with Raghu & Rahul, the roadies were shocked. Then they are given some choices similar to the Prisoner's dilemma. Both the teams were given an advantage and a choice. They can take a shortcut and give back the advantage or keep the advantage to face a task. If A takes the shortcut & B does not, team B will have to face a wrestler to win the advantage and vice-versa. If both do not take the shortcut, they have to fight with a wrestler each and the winner gets the advantage. If both take the shortcut, they will have to face two wrestlers each.

Advantage Task

Both teams decided to take the shortcut. So they both had to fight two wrestlers. Mohit selected ginself and Rahul to fight. They both had to defend themselves for three rounds. The one that defended for a longer time, wins. Rahul went first & broke a rule. He attacked a wrestler after the fight was over. So he was disqualified. Mohit automatically won. But to prove a point, he also fought. He performed very well and was appreciated by all.

Back in the room, the advantage was revealed. The tem with advantage had to convince two others from the opposite team to make them safe. All tried their very best.

Vote-Out

In the vote-out, only Mohit manages to get two votes to make him immune & became safe. He was the first to go to Rio de Janeiro, the last destination in Brazil. The ex-roadies also voted. After the vote, there was a tie between Pooja & Rahul (They got 3 votes each. The remaining two were for Suchit). The ex-roadies were asked to decide the tie

Roadies voted out - Rahul

Ratings and Reception

MTV Roadies 8 has received mainly positive reviews and had the peak TRP of 3.25/5, however ratings began to decline after roadies' trip to Brazil as the tasks became more and more personal involving nudity etc. this raged many audience members and created and outrage among viewers. Currently MTV roadies 8 had only managed to reach 2.17 rating out of 5 according to the Indian rating system.

Post competition

After being voted out many contestants including Prachi Agarwal and Rahul Sheoron gained much fame among Facebook and Twitter groups and have been highly appreciated by the audience. However, others candidates which were considered foul mouthed by majority of the viewers have received a very negative response. Renee, Anchal, Dev and Vibhor are some of them. Many Facebook hate pages have been made by the viewers commenting on their disappointing act on the show. These participants have also been criticized by Raghu in many graveyard episodes.

Suraj a.k.a. Nagesh has also received a very critical review after his vote-out, from Raghu and Rannvijay in a graveyard episode due to his maneuver of faking his identity throughout the show without seeking attention while he was a candidate during the show.

Roadies Summary

Name	Audition taken in	VOTED out by	Venue	Notes	Status
Pooja Bannerjee	Pune	NONE	TBA	STILL IN GAME	SAFE
Suchit Vikram Singh	Delhi	NONE	TBA	STILL IN GAME	SAFE
Aanchal Khuranna	Delhi	NONE	TBA	Voted out in 4th vote out, brought back in 11th episode by winning through Pooja's vote after ex-roadies' vote-in against renee'	Wild Card
Mohit Saggar	Chandigarh	NONE	TBA	STILL IN GAME	SAFE
Anamika Dutta	Chandigarh	NONE	TBA	Won a Hero Honda Karizma	SAFE
Rahul Sheron	Chandigarh	3 Votes & Ex-Roadies	Juiz de Fora	Voted out in the 1st vote out, brought back in 11th episode by winning through roadies' vote-in against Dev. Voted out again in 13th episode	OUT
Suraj aka Nagesh	Pune	Nihal's choice (5 votes)	Rio de Janeiro	Voted out in the 8th vote out.He gave Hero Honda Karizma ZMR to Tamanna Sharma (Roadies Season 6) for his survival on the show but still got voted-out.	OUT
Vibhor Sharma	Mumbai (online through Battle Ground 3)	Ex-Roadies (6 votes)	São Paulo	Voted out in the 7th vote out.	OUT
Chandni Joshi	Ahmedabad	5 votes	Pune	Voted out in the 6th vote out.	OUT
Prachi Aggarwal	Kolkata	2 votes (after a twist)	Satara'	Voted out in the 5th vote out.	OUT
Renee Dhyani	Delhi	Suraj's choice	Kolhapur	Voted out in the 4th vote out , brought back in 11th episode but lost to aanchal.	OUT
Dev Singh	Bangalore	8 votes	Belgaum	Voted out in the 3rd vote out, brought back in 11th episode but lost to rahul.	OUT
Avtar Nischal Rajput	Delhi	8 votes	Davangiri	Voted out in the 2nd vote out.	OUT
Ex-Roadies	Home Town	Previous Season	Voted out in	Notes	Status
Tamanna Sharma	Chandigarh	Season 6	TBA	Re-entered in Brazil	SAFE
Ashutosh Kaushik	Haryana	Season 5	BRAZIL	WINNER of Roadies season 5. Sent home in 12th episode	SENT HOME
Nihal	Delhi	Season 5	TBA	Re-enetered in Brazil	SAFE
Paulami De	Kolkata	Season 6	Brazil	Re-entered in Brazil. Sent home in 12th episode.	SENT HOME