The Roadies

MTV Roadies is an adventure reality television show along with drama and a touch of voyeurism aired on MTV India and is a huge hit today among the youth of the country. It is currently in its Eight season. Conceptualised by Raghu Ram and Nikhil Chinapa, and hosted by Rannvijay Singh, the show tests the endurance levels of the contestants.

Raghu Ram and Rannvijay Singh shot to instant fame with this show. Nikhil Chinapa was already a visible face earlier. First during the audition itself the Judges with their slam dank hard questions try to sort out the genuine people from the fakes who can give their best in any kind of situation.

The contestants aka Roadies, are given bikes to travel on pre-decided routes along with the crew and different situations are added to make the show interesting. Each episode features a vote-out at the end in which the Roadies eliminate one or more of their fellow Roadies, thereby decreasing the number of roadies carrying on with the journey till the last man standing.

The show first went international during the fifth edition of the Roadies, which covered three countries viz. India, Thailand and Malaysia.

Roadies are given tasks at every destination. They are either Money Advantage or Immunity tasks. Roadies earn a particular amount of money on completion of a Money task. The maximum prize for winning the show is Rs 500,000.The instant fame of the winners doesn’t get un-notices as they either become VJ’s or step into Bollywood.

In the Money tasks, the Roadies collectively perform the challenges and add cash to the winner's account. In Immunity tasks, the winning Team/Roadie gets Immunity, which means that they survive that vote-out. In the Advantage Tasks, which has been introduced from the Season 5.0, the winners get some advantage in that vote out. The exact advantage is decided by the production, and revealed at the vote-out with the purpose to spice things up and possibly spoil any plans and group votes.

The above mentioned tasks are either team-based (i.e. performed between two or more teams) or individually. At the end of scheduled journey, the last Roadie who survives till the end is the winner and walks away with the total cash accumulated by the performance of all the Roadies. Being such a tough competition, the top three Roadies are taken on an equal footing. As a matter of fact, they are immortalized in "Morgue" in the "Roadies Rehab Centre" quite adoringly.

Here is a list of the past MTV Roadies Winners and some interesting facts:

• Season # 1 There was no official winner this season as no one could complete their task.  
• Season # 2 Ayushman Khuranna, Chandigarh
• Season # 3 Parul Shahi, Delhi
• Season # 4 Anthony Yeh, Kolkata
• Season # 5 Ashutosh Kaushik, Saharanpur.
• Season # 6 MTV Roadies Hell Down Under: Nauman Sait, Bangalore. This is the first time in MTV Roadies history that Nikhil Chinnappa was replaced by Raghu's identical twin brother, Rajiv Laxman.
• Season # 7 Anwar Syed, Delhi
• Season # 8 Aanchal Khurana.

Here you can download the MTV Roadies 8 theme song Yahan

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