MTV Roadies 5.0

Infobox Television
show_name = MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0


caption = MTV Roadies 5.0 logo
show_name_2 = "MTV Roadies 5.0"
genre = Reality show
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presenter = Cyrus Sahukar Season 1
Rannvijay Singh Season 2 onwards
country = IND
language = Hindi
num_seasons = 5
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executive_producer = Raghu Ram
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location = India,Thailand,Malaysia
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network = MTV India
first_run = 2002
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last_aired = 2008
preceded_by = "MTV Roadies 4"
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website = http://www.mtvindia.com/roadies/
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"MTV Roadies 5.0" is the fifth season of "MTV Roadies", a reality television show aired on MTV India. The show was created by Raghu Ram and is hosted by Rannvijay. "Roadies" has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism..." said Raghu Ram, when asked about the show. [cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/09/08/stories/2006090801290400.htm |title=Tough guys last the course |accessdate=2008-04-01 |author=Liza George |date=2006-09-08 |work=Hindu newspaper] The maximum prize for winning the show is Rs 500,000.

election 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 Nikhil Chinapa. 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.

Format

The selected thirteen "Roadies" are given 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 is the first time when an advantage task is 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. cite web|url=http://www.funenclave.com/mtv-roadies/mtv-roadies-a-ripoff-18819.html#post135485|title=MTV Roadies Inspired?|accessdate=2008-05-19]

Episode summary Season 5

Episode 1

The "roadies" begin their journey from Goa. Here, they are divided into two teams and are asked to compete in a banana boat race. After the task, the "roadies" reach for a "vote-out" to eliminate a contestant amongst them. However, to everyone's surprise, Raghu makes an appearance and declares that a double vote will take place. In this episode, Simran and Varun are voted out.

Episode 2

The "roadies" begin their journey after being flagged-off by previous season finalists, Anthony and Bani. The "roadies" procede to Belgaum where they are asked to perform "Malkhamb" (yogic asanas on a pole) for their money task. For their immunity task, the "roadies" are divided into teams of two members each — one male and one female. They then participate in a quiz, in which each team is asked a question and only girls are allowed to answer. Every wrong answer would require the male member of the team to take-off one item of clothing from his body or quit the quiz. Anmol and Vikrant win this quizzing round and get "immunity". In the vote-out, Vibhor gets voted-out.

Episode 3

The "roadies" procede to Hospet. On their way, Ayaaz and Shambhavi meet with a accident, due to which they are unable to participate in any task. Later in the episode, an "advantage task" is introduced, the winners of which are the only ones allowed to participate in an vote-out. Despite winning the "advantage", Vikrant is voted out.

Episode 4

The roadies were divided into groups of three and each group had to perform a contemporary dance, depicting the fairy tale assigned to them. Sonel, Nihal and Prabhjot performed this task well and won immunity. However, during the vote-out, Raghu made an appearance and gave the non-immune roadies a chance to try their luck on a roulette table. Shambhavi won the immunity and was given the power to replace any one of the immune members. She chose Prabhjot. The vote-out was held and Snehashish was voted out of the show.

Episode 5

The eight roadies were divided into two teams for their immunity task. They were required to hang upside-down on a trapeze and pass wooden log pieces from one side to another. In this task, both the teams passed one log each neither team got immunity. In the vote out, the Roadies were told that if there were a tie between any two Roadies in getting the highest number of votes against them, then both those roadies would become safe from elimination. Prabhjot & Anmol both garnered four votes each and were safe from elimination. A second round of vote-out was held and Ankita was eliminated.

Episode 6

In this episode, Ashutosh and Sonel meet with an accident. Both suffer minor injuries. Prabhjot was chosen captain for immunity task along with co-captain Shambhavi and none of the teams were able to get immunity. Ashutosh was not chosen by either of the captains. The roadies had to perform a Bowl-out as an immunity task. In this task, none of the teams manage to win immunity. In the vote out, due to the virtue of his non-participation, Ashutosh is given the power to grant immunity to either of the teams. Ashutosh decides to grant immunity to Shambhavi's team and as a result, Prabhjot is voted out unanimously.

Episode 7 and 8

In this two-part episode, titled "Big Bang" episode" the roadies reach their last destination in India –Chennai, before they can head to Thailand and Malaysia. Here, the existing roadies, namely Sonel, Nihal, Ashutosh, Anmol, Shambhavi and Ayaaz confront the previously voted out roadies- Ankita Bajaj, Vikrant, Prabhjot, Vibhor and Snehashish. At this point, Raghu makes an entry and states that only deserving roadies would go abroad. He gives the eliminated roadies a chance to challenge any existing roadie for a one-on-one challenge. Raghu declares that the winner of the challenge will go abroad. For the challenges, Prabhjot challenges Anmol, Ankita Bajaj challenges Shambhavi, Snehashish challenges Ashutosh & Vikrant is pitted against Nihal.

In the first task, the two opposing roadies are made to stand on two wooden planks, halted 30 feet above the ground. Each roadie is provided with an axe to chop off the other's plank. In this task, Prabhjot and Nihal manage to chop off the plank of their opponents respectively. In the second task, each opponent has to hang on a water hose, with water falling over their head. The water pressure is increased slowly till it reaches 110 psi. The person who can withhold the water pressure for the longest time, wins the task. Shambhavi and Ashutosh win their tasks respectively.

With Shambhavi, Ashutosh, Nihal and Prabhjot booking their places for the next stage, the fate of Sonel, Ayaaz and Vibhor are yet to be decided. A vote-out is held to eliminate a roadie from these three and in the process, Ayaaz is voted out. So the final six roadies heading to Thailand are Shambhavi, Ashutosh, Nihal, Prabhjot, Sonel and Vibhor.

Episode 9

The roadies reach Bangkok. Here, they are joined by Ankita (aka Simran) and Varun, both voted-out in the first episode. Here the roadies have to perform a money task in a club becoming ladyboys. They perform and earn Rs. 40,000. After this they participated in an immunity task in the floating market where they have to buy as many items as they can, from a list of items, within a cash limit of 300 baht. Prabhjot and Vibhor win the immunity task by buying 9 items for 140 baht in . The vote-out results in a tie between Shambhavi & Nihal, with Shambhavi being voted out eventually.

Episode 10

The money task required the "roadies" to eat locusts, squid, water snake, and frogs which are considered local delicacies. Barring Ashutosh, who is a vegetarian, everybody performs this task. There was no immunity task, but an advantage task, in which "roadies" had to learn Muay Thai (kickboxing) and fight among themselves. Prabhjot, Sonel, Varun and Vibhor win the advantage task. The winners of the "advantage task" get to vote twice in the vote-out. In the vote-out, Varun gets voted out.

Episode 11

The "roadies" reach Phuket. Here, the " roadies" face a money task which requires them to balance on a barrel placed in front of a huge hurricane fan. Later in the episode, the "roadies" are called for a "vote-out" and asked to vote for the person who they feel, deserves to get "immunity". In this, Nihal, Sonel, Ashutosh and Prabhjot get the votes and Vibhor and Simran, who get no votes, are left to fight for the fifth place by participating in an "immunity task". The "immunity task" requires Vibhor and Simran to do a tightrope walk, in which the person covering the maximum distance is adjuged the winner. In this task, Simran covers more distance on the rope than Vibhor, thus leading Simran to be declared the fifth "roadie".

Episode 12

The "roadies" reach Malaysia. Here they participate in a money task, which requires them to balance on a wakeboard. While, Ashutosh and Sonel fail to balance on the wakeboard, Nihal balances for 1 second while Prabhjot and Simran do so for 8 and 13 seconds respectively. Later, they proceed to a workshop where perform a task. The winner of this task gets neither "immunity" nor "advantage" but wins a Hero Honda Karizma bike. Simran wins the "Karizma bike" by performing the fastest in the task. During the vote out, Rannvijay brings a twist in show by offering two choices to the winner of the Karizma (In this case, Simran). She is given an option wherein she can pick any "roadie" to be voted out but with a condition that she will have to give away her Karizma bike to the voted out "roadie". The other option being, Simran keeps her Bike, but the other "roadies" choose someone amongst them, who will later vote-out a "roadie". In this, Ashutosh wins the vote and gets to decide as to who gets voted-out. Ashutosh chooses Prabhjot and she gets voted out.

Episode 13

The roadies reach Port Dickson for their final money task, which requires them to ride ostriches. The roadies earn Rs twenty-one thousand in this task and their final prize money tally reaches Rs 2,30,000. After completing their money task, the roadies proceed for their immunity task which involves a traditional chinese acrobatic sport "Chinguay", in which the roadies have to balance a huge flagpole on their forehead. In this, Nihal manages to balance the pole for longer duration than other roadies and hence gets immunity. In the vote-out, Simran is voted out.

Episode 14 and 15

The season finale consisted of two-part episode. In the first-part, the final three roadies Sonel, Ashutosh and Nihal reach their final destination Kuala Lumpur. Here, they perform an "immunity task" in which they are handcuffed, tied to a chair and immersed in a swimming pool. They are required to free themselves and escape while holding their breath inside the water. All three roadies fail to complete the task but Ashutosh is declared the winner of this task by virtue of his staying inside the water for longer duration. Ashutosh is then asked to eliminate either Nihal or Sonel. Ashutosh choses Sonel to be eliminated and hence he and Nihal are chosen as final two roadies. Later on in the episode, the two finalists confront the remaining eliminated roadies. In a surprising departure from the previous seasons, Rannvijay announces that there will be a task between the two finalists and the winner of the task will be crowned the winner of the show. At this moment, Rannvijay asks Nihal and Ashutosh to choose five members each from the eliminated contestants, who will assist the respective finalist in their final challenge. Sonel is barred from participating in this final task.

In the second part of the finale, Raghu swaps the teams selected by the finalists. The teams are then required to perform five tasks :-
*1) Kiss an Iguana for at least five seconds.
*2) Tonsure head.
*3) Remove all clothes and donate it to their team leader. The roadie who choses this task is given a newspaper to cover himself.
*4) Get two nipple piercings or a tongue piercing.
*5) Get slapped by the opposing team leader.The finalist whose team performs the most number of tasks is declared to be the winner. The two finalists themselves are forbidden from performing the tasks but are expected to convince their team-mates to perform the tasks for them. However, both teams perform all the tasks within their stipulated time and Sonel gets to decide the winner by performing a task and declaring the name of a winner. Sonel kisses the iguana and declares Ashutosh as winner.

Life after "Roadies"

Ashutosh Kaushik became a housemate in the second season of an indian reality TV programme " Bigg Boss". Shambhavi Sharma was offered a role in "The Little Godfather", produced by Ekta Kapoor and Sunil Shetty. [cite web |url=http://www.indiasnews.net/story/350029 |title=MTV 'Roadies' finalist Shambhavi steps into Bollywood |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2008-04-19 |publisher=IANS] [cite web |url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/mtv-roadies-finalist-drives-her-way-to-bollywood/63581-8.html |title=MTV Roadies finalist drives her way to Bollywood |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2008-04-19 |publisher=IANS] Another contestant, Anmol Singh bagged a role as Archita in Ekta Kapoor's "Kuchh Is Tara". [cite web |url=http://www.jimandaz.com/6/anmol_singh_entered_kuchh_is_tara_archita.htm |title= Anmol Singh Enters Kuchh Is Tara As Archita |accessdate=2008-06-03] Varun Saini along with Vishal (contestant from "MTV Roadies Season 4") have been signed up for another reality show on MTV, titled "MTV Splitsvilla".

Bani Judge, the finalist from "MTV Roadies Season 4" hosts two shows on MTV India – "MTV Wassup" (a daily 10 minutes bulletin) and "MTV On The Job 2" (a reality show). Ayushmann Khurana, the winner of "MTV Roadies Season 2" is also a host for "MTV Wassup" and also hosts a new show called 'U' campus which is a contest for the best college campus.

Winners till date

* Season 1 - There was no official winner but Rannvijay, who was among the seven 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 time MTV Roadies show will be held in India and Australia.

References

External links

* [http://www.mtvindia.com/roadies/ Roadies Official Website]
* [http://mtvroadies.xaapa.com/ Roadies UnOfficial Website]