MTV Splitsvilla
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MTV Splitsvilla, is an Indian television reality show that airs 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...

. Splitsvilla is one of its kind hunt for love show. The series is based on the american dating reality show Flavor of Love
Flavor of Love
Flavor of Love is an American reality television dating game show parody starring Flavor Flav of the rap group Public Enemy.While not a direct spin-off, the show was a result of Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav's failed relationship on Strange Love, as well as The Surreal Life...

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Season 1

The season 1 was hosted by VJ Rannvijay Singh
Rannvijay Singh
Ranvijay Singh Singha , is a VJ and Bollywood actor. He was a participant and also the finalist in the first season of MTV Roadies and that lead to him becoming the host for the MTV show, Roadies. He also became a part of the judging panel for MTV Roadies 8 along with Raghu Ram and Rajiv Lakshman....

, the winner of MTV Roadies Season 1. In this season, two boys, viz. Varun Saini, a participant of MTV Roadies 5.0
MTV Roadies 5.0
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...

 and Vishal Karwal
Vishal Karwal
Vishal Karwal is a Indian model-turned-actor who started his television career with the show Bhagyavidhaata on Colors channel. Vishal's big moment in the television industry came when he was selected to play the role of Lord Krishna in Imagine TV's mythological series Dwarkadheesh Bhagwaan Shree...

, of MTV Roadies 4, find the ultimate girl of their dreams by choosing from 20 girls by putting them through grueling "tests". The girls battle stress, politics, exhaustion, fear, bitchiness and bad television to be the chosen one and avoid humiliation of getting dumped. The girl who has been dumped will leave the show and move back to her home.

Contestants

Girls
  • Aarti
  • Akanksha
  • Annie
  • Anubha
  • Bianca
  • Bosky
  • Hannah
  • Heena
  • Hoorzan
  • Kanika
  • Minakshi
  • Prianca
  • Richa
  • Ritu
  • Shraddha (Winner)
  • Shruti
  • Simran
  • Sneh Richa
  • Vani
  • Yamini


Boys
  • Varun
  • Vishal (Winner)


Of the final three (Shraddha, Heena and Prianca), Shraddha emerged as the winner and became the queen of "Splitsvilla". Shraddha then goes on to choose Vishal. Though the decision wasn't finally Shraddha's. Vishal, the champion was challenged by Varun, the challenger. They had to fight over 3 contests and the winner of 2 out of 3 was to be declared the ultimate winner. Vishal came out a clear winner by winning the first two in which the first victory saw Vishal beating Varun in Varun's territory.

Winners Shraddha and Vishal got to host a weekly show 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...

, titled MTV Couplesutra which is a 10-minute show in which they discuss one "reel-life" couple, one real-life couple and one break-up. Prianca joined an acting school in Mumbai. Bianca and Simran appeared in "Bechaare Zameen Par" (a take on the Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film Taare Zameen Par
Taare Zameen Par
Taare Zameen Par is a 2007 Bollywood drama film directed by Aamir Khan, written by Amole Gupte, and produced by Aamir Khan Productions. Gupte initially developed the idea with his wife Deepa Bhatia, who served as the film's editor...

 which was aired on MTV). Vishal, currently, plays the male lead in the show "Rishtonse Badi Pratha" aired on Colors TV.

Season 2

The Season 2 of Splitsvilla had 10 boys and 10 girls selected from auditions. The first episode of the show was aired on March 7, 2009. This season was hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinapa.

Summary

Female Male Winner Dumped Withrew Eliminated

BOYS
Name Dumped by Notes Status
Siddharth Bhardwaj NONE WINNER of Mtv Splitsvilla
Won by the majority of votes from the eliminated contestants in the finale
WINNER
Mohit Malhotra NONE Runner Up
Lost to Siddarth in the challenge round.
ELIMINATED
Paramvir Singh Joanna DUMPED
Bhav Aman Singh Joanna DUMPED
Varun Jhamb Joanna DUMPED
Rahul Dwivedi Joanna DUMPED
Aman Sharma Joanna DUMPED
Meherzaan B Mazda Joanna WITHDREW
Ashutosh Kataria Joanna DUMPED
Suyash Kumar Joanna DUMPED

GIRLS
Name Dumped by Notes Status
Sakshi Pradhan NONE WINNER of Mtv Splitsvilla
Won by the majority of votes from the eliminated contestants in the finale
WINNER
Joanna Magee NONE Runner Up
Lost to Sakshi in the challenge round.
ELIMINATED
Stuti Nag Siddarth DUMPED
Ritika Nainta Siddarth DUMPED
Sakshi Bhayana Siddarth DUMPED
Nalini Negi Siddarth DUMPED
Shikha Taneja Siddarth DUMPED
Cheshta Bhagat Mohit DUMPED
Meenakshi Negi Mohit DUMPED
Swaagata G Shah Mohit DUMPED


10 Prince
  • Siddharth Bhardwaj - The Ultimate King
  • Mohit Malhotra - (Ex-King, lost to Siddharth in challenge round) - Runner up
  • Paramvir Singh Baidwan - (11th dumped by Joanna)
  • Bhav Aman Singh - (10th dumped by Joanna)
  • Rahul Dwivedi - (8th dumped by Joanna)
  • Aman Sharma - (6th dumped by Joanna)
  • Meherzaan B Mazda - (Quit because of illness)
  • Ashutosh Kataria - (4th dumped by Joanna)
  • Suyash Kumar - (3rd dumped by Joanna)
  • Varun Jhamb - (2nd dumped by Joanna, Re-entered, 9th dumped by Joanna)


10 Princess
  • Sakshi Pradhan - The Ultimate Queen
  • Joanna Magee - (Queen) Runner up
  • Stuti Nag - (11th dumped))
  • Ritika Nainta - (10th dumped by Siddharth)
  • Sakshi Bhayana - (2nd dumped by Mohit, Re-entered, 7th dumped by Siddharth)
  • Nalini Negi - (7th Eliminated)
  • Shikha Taneja - (6th dumped by Siddharth)
  • Cheshta Bhagat - (5th dumped by Mohit)
  • Meenakshi Negi - (3rd dumped by Mohit)
  • Swaagata G Shah - (1st dumped by Mohit)

Episode 1

All boys reached splitsvilla in casa colvale, goa. After enjoying there some hour, the girl entered in the villa. Guys talked with them and both tried to built connection. Suddenly they saw nikhil is entering. He asked some few questions to them and later asked to pair up a couple for party. After that varun asked minakshi to be with him. Minakshi accepted. Param also asked him the same question and minakshi also didnt decline that. So varun got into an argument with her. They fill up couples like this:

1.siddharth-cheshta

2.suyash-joanna

3.rahul-nalini

4.mohit-ritika

5.param-shikha

6.varun-minakshi

7.bhavaman-sakshi

8.meherzan-swaagata

9.aman-stutee

They enjoy the party by dancing and making connection. After that nikhil asked them all whom they'd like to ask for a date. Mohit and Joanna got maximum votes. Later nikhil said actually there was one more boy and a girl who have the power of dumping. Nikhil declared mohit & joanna as a king & queen. All of them were shocked. After that nikhil ask the king & queen to dump 1 boy and 1 girl right now. Mohit dumped swaagata and joanna dumped bhavaman. After dumping, nikhil said those who didnt got any vote are going to the next dumping zone. In this key, Aman,meherzan,suyash,varun and ritika got no vote. To balance it, nikhil declared 1 from the 4 boys will be safe and 2 from the safe girls will be unsafe. The safe girls voted to safe meherzan, thus he was safe. The safe boys made a tie by voting against sakshi minakshi cheshta.so, this 7 people were in the dumping zone.king mohit & queen joanna has taken away from villa.

The next morning, all were chilling out in the pool. Siddharth and suyash had some friction. After that they got vodafone instruction, the safe were allowed to safe 1 boy & 1 girl from the dumping zone members.

Dumping ground

The king & queen had a special chair in the dumping ground. After voting to safe 2 members, ritika got 3 votes and suyash got 2 votes and were safe. King dumped sakshi and queen dumped varun.both left the show.

Dumped : Swaagata G Shah, Bhavaman Singh, Sakshi Bhayana, Varun Jhamb

Bajate Raho

This was a spicy session. The boys and girls were asked to vote who had the worst body among them. Shikha got 3 votes and ashutosh got 6 votes and sent directly to the dumping zone.

Competition

They reached in a ship, for their first competition based on best body. All (except ashutosh and shikha) performed in a ramp and present their body to king and queen. After judgement, king & queen decided minakshi, cheshta, aman and suyash had worst body and all were sent to the dumping zone. Nikhil said the dumping zone's member will got a alonetime with their king and queens.

Vodafone 2nd Chance

The next morning all 6 members of dumping ground had some alone time with the king and queen. Minakshi were pissed of mohit because of his behaviour.

Dumping Ground

The boys were too pissed because of mohit attitude and have some war of words. Shikha and aman got maximum votes and were safe from dumping. Mohit dumped minakshi and joanna dumped suyash.

Dumped : suyash kumar, minakshi negi

Episode 3

The next morning, splitsvillians got a vodafone instruction which told them that this time the girls are safe from dumping ground. It also asked the boys to pair up with girls for their next competition. They formed couple like this :

1.meherzan - ritika

2.siddharth - sakshi

3.param - shikha

4.aman - cheshta

5.ashutosh - stutee

6.rahul - nalini

Competition

Nikhil told the boys that strength and stamina will tested in this competition. The boy's respective partners had to
include mud in their bodies. After that the boy will carry her and drop her into another platform where she had to collect those muds. Siddhart, aman,ashutosh defeated by meherzan,param,rahul and thus they went to dumping zone.

Back in villa

King mohit and queen joanna were sent to villa to spend some time with the splitsvillians (except siddhart,aman,ashutosh). Stutee bitched about the girls to joanna.

Vodafone 2nd chance

Siddharth, aman, ashutosh got the 2nd chance with joanna as they were put off in the dumping zone. This time joanna reduced ashutosh's time while dating with siddharth.

Dumping Ground

In the dumping ground, all girls were allowed to vote for safe 1 guy. Cheshta,stutee,shikha,nalini voted for aman while ritika and sakshi voted for siddharth. Aman were safe from dumping. Siddharth argued with nalini and cheshta for not voting him. Finally joanna dumped ashutosh.

Dumped : Ashutosh Kataria

Siddharth and Sakshi Pradhan defeated Joanna Magee and Mohit Malhotra by one vote in the finals aired on June 14, 2009. Siddharth is a part of show MTV Stripped 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...

. Joanna Magee works as a VJ at Zing Entertainment Channel. Sakshi Pradhan was later one of the Big Boss Contestants and reportedly told the show organizers to purposely eliminate her because she took a pregnancy test when she was inside the house, which turned out to be negative. She has couple of sex tapes of herself exposed on the internet.

Season 3

The winning couple of Season 3 wins Rs. 5 lakh and a chance to be a VJ on MTV. Season 3 had 10 singles (5 boys and 5 girls) and 5 unmarried couples. The show is hosted by VJ's Nikhil Chinapa and Deepti Gujral. The game has gone international for the first time in Splitsvilla history. It is aired on every Saturday at 7:00 p.m on MTV. The King and Queen are challenged every week. The king and queen stay in the villa this year but in special chambers known as the 'King and the Queen chambers'.

5 Single Boys
  • Vikas Mehandroo (King for episodes 9, 11, Runner Up)
  • Sufzal Saleem (4th dumped by Niharika, returned in the finale but lost)
  • Raj Kumar (6th dumped by Pavitra)
  • Ramanjot Singh (5th dumped by Pavitra)
  • Pulkit Khanna (1st dumped by Pooja)


5 Single Girls
  • Kriti Sharma (4th dumped by Mahip, returned in the finale, Runner Up)
  • Pavitra Punia
    Pavitra Punia
    Pavitra Punia is a young model and actor. Pavitra plays the lead role in the Star Plus serial Love u Zindagi.Pavitra's character Geet is born and brought up in Bhatinda, she is a lively girl who believes in living life to the fullest and making the most of it. She lives in a big joint family that...

     (Queen for episodes 5, 6, 10)
  • Monika Maryjane (11th dumped)
  • Nirmal Sandhoo (5th dumped by Mahip)
  • Shivkiran Bajwa (3rd dumped by Arjun)


5 Unmarried Couples
  • Riya Bamniyal (6th dumped by Mahip, returned, Queen for episodes 9, 11) & Parag Chadha (3rd dumped by Pooja, returned in the finale) (The Ultimate King & Queen)
  • Niharika Kareer (9th dumped by Vikas, Queen for episodes 4, 7, 8) & Mahip Marwah (11th dumped, King for episodes 4, 5, 6, 10)
  • Pooja Amin (Voluntarily Dumped, Queen for episodes 1, 2, 3) & Arjun Kumar Mahendroo (7th dumped by Niharika, King for episodes 1, 2, 3)
  • Ruchi Arora (2nd dumped by Arjun) & Ashish Agarwal (Voluntarily dumped, King for episodes 7,8)
  • Priyanka Sharama (1st dumped by Arjun) & Hemant Kaur (Voluntarily dumped)

Season 4

The Season 4 of Splitsvilla had 4 boys and 13 girls selected from auditions. The first episode of the show was aired on December 3, 2010. This season is being hosted by MTV India VJ Nikhil Chinapa.
Format
The girls were divided into 4 groups(Qabilah) which were headed by each boy.

Summary

Female Male Winner Dumped Eliminated
KINGS Status
Dushyant Yadav WINNER
Sai ELIMINATED
Manish Khanna ELIMINATED
Ashish Choudhary ELIMINATED

DUSHYANT'S QABILAH
Girls Dumped by Notes Status
Priya Shinde None 1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th episode's Queen. Awarded as Master Mind of Splitsvilla 4 WINNER
Aakriti Bhamri Ashish 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th episode's Queen. 11th dumped by Ashish DUMPED
Ruchita Rao Ashish 3rd dumped by Ashish, Returned, 5th dumped by Ashish DUMPED
SAI'S QABILAH
Girls Dumped by Notes Status
Tina Thapa None 6th episode's Queen) RUNNERS UP ELIMINATED
Yashita Sahu Sai 6th episode's Queen. 1st dumped by Manish,returned, 12th dumped by Sai DUMPED
Sanjana Bhatia Dushyant 3rd, 5th, 6th episode's Queen. 9th dumped by Dushyant DUMPED

MANISH'S QABILAH
Girls Dumped by Notes Status
Pooja Bisht None 8th, 9th, 12th episode's Queen ELIMINATED
Payal Thapa Dushyant 2nd, 4th episode's Queen. 8th dumped by Dushyant DUMPED
Dimple Chawla Ashish 1st, 2nd, 4th episode's Queen. 7th dumped by Ashish DUMPED
ASHISH'S QABILAH
Girls Dumped by Notes Status
Archana Choudhary Manish 1st, 2nd, 4th, 11th episode's Queen. 13th dumped by Manish DUMPED
Sohfi Dushyant 5th, 7th episode's Queen. 2nd dumped by Manish,returned, 10th Dumped by Dushyant DUMPED
Vartika Kaul Sai 3rd, 5th episode's Queen. 6th dumped by Sai DUMPED
Srishttii Gupta Manish 3rd episode's Queen. 4th dumped by Manish DUMPED

FINALE
A roulette game based on luck was played between the three pairs of fianlists: Manish and Pooja, Sai and Tina, and Dushyant and Priya. This first task was won by Sai and Tina who went directly to the finals.
The second task was between Manish-Pooja and Dushyant-Priya on who would join Sai-Tina for the final task. This was an obstacle task. This was won by Dushyant-Priya who next joined Sai-Tina in the final face-off.
The final task was won by Dushyant-Priya, and hence were declared the winners of Splitsvilla 4.

Sexual Exploitation

A month after the second season of Splitsvilla ended, some of the contestants claimed that the show’s crew members had engaged in sexual acts with other contestants.

Swaagata G Shah, a contestant from Season 2, claimed in a tabloid that there were exchanges of sexual favors between contestants and important people of the production team, including anchor Nikhil Chinappa, to get undue advantages in the contest.
Later, contestants Varun Jhamb and Nalini Negi who had been eliminated early on in the show, alleged that ‘some crew members, including the director, had slept in the same room as top contender Joanna Magee, and others engaged in sexual favours, especially towards the end.'

In response, Nikhil Chinappa said, ‘I don’t want to comment on it. The channel will come out with an official statement soon. After all, it’s about the channel’s image and mine.’ Rajiv Laxman (creative director of the show) said: ‘I firmly disagree with these allegations. We have strict rules that prevent the mingling of the crew with the cast. Swagata was the first contestant to be eliminated and didn’t even spend a night at the villa. She doesn’t have any inkling of the way things work there.’

Racial Slur

One of the contestants on the show Mohit Malhotra, has been accused of using a racial slur after he called Siddharth Bhardwaj, a "Nepali with 'chinky' eyes". This caused obvious discomfort to India's North East Community, many of whom have oriental facial features. Though the show is unscripted, the network and the sponsors have been accused of supporting such racial slurs by not bleeping the content after they decided to air it.

Another such incident took place in the fourth season, when Aakriti had a verbal fight with Payal Thapa. The racial slur that was used was beeped out and later Nikhil at the dumping ground raised the issue telling Aakrit not to "advertise her ignorance anymore" and that serious actions will be taken if it happens here after.

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