SPLITSVILLA

Genre : Reality show

Created by : Purvish Bhatt

No. of seasons : 7

Original channel : MTV India

What is it all about?!

This show was brought to Indian television, based on world famous series Flavour of Love. In this show girls n boys try to secure a place in Splitsvilla which is a “villa”. Its’s a ‘hunt for love’ show where boys n girls compete in tasks to stay in the competition and mingle with the contestants to find love. There is also a king and queen that have dumping powers(eliminating power). In the end, one boy and one girl(couple) are crowned the winners of splitsvilla. In this show there are lots of fights, jealousy, hatred, friendship, backstabbing and love when all the contestants get together.

Season 1

This season was aired in 2008 and Rannvijay hosted the first season of MTV Splitsvilla in Goa with 22 girls and 2 boys. The winner declared was Vishal and Shraddha.

Season 2

This season was aired on 7^th March 2009 in Goa and was hosted by the VJ Nikhil Chinappa. Out of 10 girls and boys, Siddharth and Sakhi emerged as a winning couple. This show was hosted inCasa Colvae, Goa.

Season 3

This show was hosted by Deepti Gujral and Nikhil Chinappa in may 2011 in Pattaya. The winner of the season were Riya Bamniyal and Parag Chadha out of 5 girls, 5 boys and 5 couples. The winner accumulated a sum of 4 lakh and were first of the show to go international.

Season 4

This season was aired on 3^rd December 2010 in Dubai. This show featured 13 girls, 4 boys and the winners were Dushyant Yadav and Priya Shinde.

Season 5

This show was aired in April 2012 in Jim Corbett N Park, titled as “Love Gone Wild” and was hosted by Nikhil Chinappa. The competition was between 8 girls and 8 boys and the winning couple was Paras and Akanksha.

Season 6

This season was aired on 25^th May 2013 Kerala, hosted by Sherylyn Chopra and Nikhil Chinappa and was titled as “Hot As Hell” which contained “Book of hell” that got turning point on elimination round if any contestant chose to open it. Param and mandy emerged as winner.

Season 7

This season started in June 2014 in Jaipur and is hosted by Sunny Leony and Nikhil Chinappa. This season has a “Book of fortune” that brought turns and twists in elimination round if any contestants chose to open it. There are 7 males and 20 females and this season is still being telecasted every Saturday-Sunday. And this season is won by Mayank Gandhi and Scarlett Rose.