MTV Roadies 5.0
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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. The maximum prize for winning the show was Rs 500,000.
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.
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 (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 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 very slightly inspired by the MTV
-USA reality show Road Rules
(a spinoff of The Real World
) which started in the year 1995.
. 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.
where they are asked to perform Mallakhamb
(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.
. On their way, Ayaaz and Shambhavi meet with an accident, due to which they are unable to participate in any task. For the money task, ther roadies are asked to squeeze juice out of sugarcanes. Later in the episode, an advantage task is introduced. In this task, the roadies were paired up(one boy & one girl). The girl had to climb down a rope from a bridge. The guy had to row a small boat and reach before the girl falls into the water. No one could finish the task. Advantage was given based on the time spent hanging to the rope by the girl. The winners of which are the only ones allowed to participate in a vote-out. Despite winning the advantage, Vikrant is voted out.
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.
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.
, 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, . 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.
, 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.
. 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.
. While, Ashutosh and Sonel fail to balance on the wakeboard, Nihal balances for 1 second while Prabhjot and Simran do so for 3 and 9 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.
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.
In the second part of the finale, Raghu swaped the teams selected by the finalists. The teams were then required to perform five tasks :-
The finalist whose team performed the most number of tasks was declared to be the winner. The two finalists themselves were forbidden from performing the tasks but were expected to convince their team-mates to perform the tasks for them. However, both teams performed all the tasks within their stipulated time and Sonel got to decide the winner by performing a task and declaring the name of a winner. Sonel kissed the iguana and declared Ashutosh as the winner.
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
show aired on MTV India
MTV India
MTV India is the Indian version of MTV , a channel specialising in music and youth culture programming. It was launched in 1996 and is now part of the Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai. . "MTV India" is one of the oldest Music Television Networks in Asia...
. The show was created by Raghu Ram
Raghu Ram
Raghu Ramalingam is the senior supervising producer at MTV India and the executive producer of the reality television shows MTV Roadies and MTV Splitsvilla-Early life and education:...
and is hosted by Rannvijay. "Roadies has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism..." said Raghu Ram, when asked about the show. The maximum prize for winning the show was Rs 500,000.
Selection 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 RamRaghu Ram
Raghu Ramalingam is the senior supervising producer at MTV India and the executive producer of the reality television shows MTV Roadies and MTV Splitsvilla-Early life and education:...
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 (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 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 very slightly inspired by the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
-USA reality show Road Rules
Road Rules
Road Rules was an MTV reality show that debuted on July 19, 1995. The series, which was MTV's second reality show after The Real World followed six strangers between the ages of 18 and 24 after stripping them of their money and putting them on an RV traveling from location to location only guided...
(a spinoff of The Real World
The Real World
The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...
) which started in the year 1995.
Episode 1
The roadies begin their journey from GoaGoa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
. Here, they are divided into two teams and are asked to compete in a banana boat
Banana boat (boat)
A banana boat, also known as a water sled and often referred to simply as a banana, is an inflatable recreational boat meant for towing. It was invented by Glenn Matthews in the late 1980s. Different models usually accommodate three to ten riders sitting on a larger, main tube and resting their...
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 proceed to BelgaumBelgaum
Belgaum is a city and a municipal corporation in Belgaum district in the state of Karnataka, India. It is the fourth largest city of the state of Karnataka, the first three being Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad....
where they are asked to perform Mallakhamb
Mallakhamb
Mallakhamb or Malkhamb is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope. Mallakhamb also refers to the pole used in the sport....
(yogic asanas on a pole) for their money task. For their immunity
Immunity (reality television)
Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
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 proceed to HospetHospet
Hospet , is a city in Bellary District in northern Karnataka, India. It is on the Tungabhadra River, 12 km from the World Heritage site consisting of the ruins of the medieval city of Vijayanagara, former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire....
. On their way, Ayaaz and Shambhavi meet with an accident, due to which they are unable to participate in any task. For the money task, ther roadies are asked to squeeze juice out of sugarcanes. Later in the episode, an advantage task is introduced. In this task, the roadies were paired up(one boy & one girl). The girl had to climb down a rope from a bridge. The guy had to row a small boat and reach before the girl falls into the water. No one could finish the task. Advantage was given based on the time spent hanging to the rope by the girl. The winners of which are the only ones allowed to participate in a vote-out. Despite winning the advantage, Vikrant is voted out.
Episode 4
For the money task, the roadies are asked to play tennis with a professional. For each point they scored, they got 5000 rupees.The roadies were divided into groups of three and each group had to perform a contemporary dance, depicting the fairy tale
Fairy tale
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...
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. For the money task, the roadies had to hang upside down and transfer water from the container in the floor to the one at a height. 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-outBowl-out
A bowl-out is used in various forms of limited overs cricket to decide a match that would otherwise end in a tie. The procedure is similar to a penalty shootout in association football. Five bowlers from each side deliver one or two balls each at an unguarded wicket...
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 –ChennaiChennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, before they can head to Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
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
Pounds per square inch
The pound per square inch or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch is a unit of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units...
. 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, . 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 roadies reach Hua Hin. The money task required the roadies to eat locusts, squidSquid
Squid are cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and arms. Squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms arranged in pairs and two, usually longer, tentacles...
, water snake
Water snake
Different snakes are called water snakes. Most are colubrids. "Water snake" is also sometimes used as a descriptive term for any snakes that spend a significant time in or near fresh water, such as any species belonging to the family Acrochordidae...
, 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
Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
(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 PhuketPhuket Province
Phuket , formerly known as Thalang and, in Western sources, Junk Ceylon , is one of the southern provinces of Thailand...
. 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
Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope, usually at a great height. One or more artists performs in front of an audience or as a publicity stunt...
, 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 wakeboardWakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques....
. While, Ashutosh and Sonel fail to balance on the wakeboard, Nihal balances for 1 second while Prabhjot and Simran do so for 3 and 9 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 DicksonPort Dickson
Port Dickson or PD to locals is a beach and holiday destination situated about 32 km from Seremban and 90 km from Kuala Lumpur. It is located in the state of Negeri Sembilan in Peninsular Malaysia...
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
This episode in Thailand will decide the finalist and would be crowned the winner of Season 5.0. At this moment, Nihal and Ashutosh were asked to choose five members each from the eliminated . Sonel was barred from participating in this final task.In the second part of the finale, Raghu swaped the teams selected by the finalists. The teams were then required to perform five tasks :-
- 1) Kiss an iguana 2)shave your head
- 3) Remove all clothes *4) Get two nipple piercingNipple piercingA nipple piercing is a piercing, centered usually at the base of the nipple. It can be pierced at any angle but is usually done horizontally or, less often, vertically. It is also possible to place multiple piercings on top of one another...
s or a tongue piercingTongue piercingA tongue piercing is a body piercing usually done directly through the center of the tongue, and is the most popular piercing site in the western world after the ear and nostril.-History and culture:...
. - 5) Get slapped by the opposing team leader.
The finalist whose team performed the most number of tasks was declared to be the winner. The two finalists themselves were forbidden from performing the tasks but were expected to convince their team-mates to perform the tasks for them. However, both teams performed all the tasks within their stipulated time and Sonel got to decide the winner by performing a task and declaring the name of a winner. Sonel kissed the iguana and declared Ashutosh as the winner.