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| 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 | 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 | ||
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== MTV Community on Orkut == | ||
| The Roadies craze has seen MTV establish one of the most popular |
The Roadies craze has seen MTV establish one of the most popular communities on Orkut called MTV & Still More MTV. With a vanity url of www.orkut.com/mtvroadies , the community sees the best action on Roadies outside of the TV screen! Owned and run by this mysterious man from MTV called MTV Webmaster or Webbie, this community is the one stop shop to discuss Roadies and other MTV shows and VJs. While there are other communities as well on FB and Orkut, this one gets the top spot because of the direct involvement of some very senior people of MTV to have a direct one on one with their audiences and then implement their suggestions. The community also sees lots of contests with MTV goodies as prizes, which is yet another reason for its popularity! | ||
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Revision as of 19:43, 24 September 2009
TV series or program| MTV Roadies | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality show |
| Presented by | Cyrus Sahukar Season 1 Rannvijay Singh Season 2 onwards |
| Country of origin |  India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Kartik Chintamani - Season 1 & 2, Raghu Ram - Season 3, 4 & 5, Vivek Bhushan - Season 6 & 7 |
| Production locations | India Season 1 to 4 India, Thailand, Malaysia Season 5 India, Australia - Season 6 Season 7 - Remote parts of India and Parts of Africa |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV India |
MTV Roadies is a youth-based popular reality television show on MTV India. The format of the show has been developed by Team MTV over the past six seasons, and it is still evolving, getting bigger with each passing season. However, as a part of their marketing strategy during Roadies 5.0, MTV actively pushed Raghu Ram as the man behind the show. As a matter of fact, Raghu was just another producer in Roadies 1 (He did not even take a single interview!) and the show was actually produced by the production house Miditech. Raghu was not involved during the Roadies 6 journey and is totally out of scene during Roadies 7.
When asked about the show, Raghu, in his capacity as the EP of the show, said, "Roadies has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism..."
Selection Procedure
The Roadies auditions are held in various major cities in India. People who turn up for the audition are made to fill a form, then they 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. While the judges were not exactly pushed as characters till Season 4, Season 5 onwards MTV started promoting Raghu Ram as the chief interviewer and the man behind the show as part of its marketing strategy. It paid off for sure as Raghu was soon established as the rudest guy on television! The interview round was designed deliberately acrimonious to test the participant's attitude, tolerance and patience levels. The key differentiator in Roadies 4 was Gulshan Grover, Raghu made a larger than life presence in Roadies 5, Raghu and his twin Rajiv were the USP of Roadies 6 while Irrfan Khan makes his grand entry in Roadies 7! The number of Roadies has ranged from 13 to 20, though in the first season, only 7 people had taken the bike ride through Chennai to Chail. There is no limit as to how many times a person can audition. For Season Six, 20 roadies were selected from the interviews.
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.
Winners
Season 1: Ranvijay (Not a Winner)
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: TBA
Life after Roadies
Rannvijay Singh, one of the winners of first season of Roadies went on to host all further seasons of Roadies from season 2 onwards and became a popular VJ on MTV. Ayushman Khurana winner of roadies season 2 is hosting a programme on MTV known as wassup - the voice of youngistan, Stripped, Fantastic 5. He also got chace in India`s got Talent.. as a VJ.
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! ]] Shambhavi Sharma was offered a role in The Little Godfather, produced by Ekta Kapoor and Sunil Shetty. Another contestant, Anmol Singh bagged a role as Archita in Ekta Kapoor's Kuchh Is Tara. 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.
Gurbani Judge a.k.a Bani J, the finalist from MTV Roadies Season 4 hosts Pepsi MTV Wassup on MTV India. Ayushmann Khurana, the winner of MTV Roadies Season 2 is also a host for MTV Wassup and he also recently hosted the show India Got Talent on the general entertainment channel Colors.
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
MTV Community on Orkut
The Roadies craze has seen MTV establish one of the most popular communities on Orkut called MTV & Still More MTV. With a vanity url of www.orkut.com/mtvroadies , the community sees the best action on Roadies outside of the TV screen! Owned and run by this mysterious man from MTV called MTV Webmaster or Webbie, this community is the one stop shop to discuss Roadies and other MTV shows and VJs. While there are other communities as well on FB and Orkut, this one gets the top spot because of the direct involvement of some very senior people of MTV to have a direct one on one with their audiences and then implement their suggestions. The community also sees lots of contests with MTV goodies as prizes, which is yet another reason for its popularity!
References
- Liza George (2006-09-08). "Tough guys last the course". Hindu newspaper. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- "MTV 'Roadies' finalist Shambhavi steps into Bollywood". IANS. 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- "MTV Roadies finalist drives her way to Bollywood". IANS. 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
- "Anmol Singh Enters Kuchh Is Tara As Archita". Retrieved 2008-06-03.
External links
| MTV Roadies | |
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| Seasons | |
| Winners | |
| Notable contestants | |