ROADIES

Genere : Reality

Presented by : Bani, Rannvijay Singh, Cyrus Sahukar

No. of seasons : 11(complete)

Original channel : MTV India

Auditions

The auditions of this show are conducted by popular VJ’s like Raghu Ram, Rannvijay Singh, Nikhil Chinapa and Rajiv Laxman.

In this, the applicants are first asked to fill the forms and then attend a group discussion(GD). This forms contains basic questions regarding applicants and certain questions like “why they want to be Roadie?”, “Their regrets or tough achievements” etc…

After watching the performance of applicants in the (GD), moderators shortlist some people who are called on the next day for the Personal Interview round.

This personal interview is taken by the above mentioned VJ’s. These interviews are always seen to be intense, trying to bring out the true nature of the participant. These interviews often have abusive languages incase the applicant have lied on the forms. This actually brings the real nature of an applicant who tried potraying a false personality.

FORMAT

The selected Roadies are given latest Hero Honda bikes to travel on a pre-decided routes. Each episode contains of number of tasks or challenges that they have to perform. This tasks are either “Money tasks” where Roadies add cash to their account on successful completion of the given task or “Immunity tasks” where the team that wins! gets Immunity. The team that gets Immunity are safe from vote out in that episode.

 And at the end of the episode there is a vote out in which the Roadies eliminate one of their fellow Roadie, thereby decreasing the number of Roadies in the journey.

In the end of the scheduled journey, the last Roadie who survives till the end is declared as the winner of the season and walks away with the total cash accumulated by performing the money tasks.

SERIES DETAILS

1^st season was hosted by Cyrus Sahukar in India with 8 contestants and the winner of the season was Rannvijay Singh.

2^nd season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India with 10 contestants and the winner of the season was Ayushman Khurrana.

3^rd season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India with 13 contestants and the winner of the season was Parul Shahi.

4^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India with 13 contestants and the winner of the season was Anthony Yeh.

5^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India, Thailand and Malaysia with 13 contestants the winner of the season was Ashutosh Kaushik.

6^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India and Australia with 20 contestants and the winner of the season was Nauman Sait.

7^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India, Kenya and Egypt with 14 contestants and the winner of the season was Anwar Syed.

8^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India and Brazil with 13 contestants and the winner of the season was Aanchal Khurrana.

9^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India and United States with 13 contestants and the winner of the season was Vikas Khoker.

10^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India with 16 contestants and the winner of the season was Palak Johal.

11^th season was hosted by Rannvijay Singh in India with 15 contestants and the winner of the season was Nikhil Sachdeva.

The winners of this shows have achieved things for life time and are most popularly seen in various fields like movies, TV hosts, VJ’s, DJ etc.. Some of the popularly seen Roadies are

RANNVIJAY SINGH

AYUSHMAN KHURRANA

GURBANI JUDGE