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MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0
MTV Roadies 5.0 logo
Also known as	MTV Roadies 5.0
Genre	Reality show
Presented by	Cyrus Sahukar Season 1 Rannvijay Season 2 onwards
Country of origin	India
Language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	5
Production
Executive producer(s)	Raghu Ram
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV India
First shown in	2002
Chronology
Preceded by	MTV Roadies 4
External links
Official website

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.^[1] The maximum prize for winning the show is Rs 500,000.

1 Selection Procedure
2 Game format
3 Season Five Episode summary
4 Life after Roadies
5 Winners till date
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] 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 Ram 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.

[edit] Game 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 (ie performed between two or more teams) or individual-based (ie 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 based on the original MTV reality show Road Rules which started in the year 1995. ^[2]

[edit] Season Five Episode summary

In episode 1, the roadies begin their journey from Goa. 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.
In episode 2, the roadies begin their journey after being flagged-off by previous season finalists, Anthony and Bani. The roadies procede to Belgaum where they are asked to perform Malkhamb (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.
In episode 3, the roadies procede to Hospet. On their way, Ayaaz and Shambhavi meet with a accident, due to which they are unable to participate in any task. Later in the episode, an advantage task is introduced, the winners of which are allowed the only ones allowed to participate in an vote-out.
In episode 4, all the non-immune Roadies tried their luck on a roulette table. Shambhavi won and was given the Immunity and was also to decide whom to rip the Immunity off. She picked Prabhjot. Snehashish was voted out.
In episode 5, due to a draw in the Immunity task, no one got Immunity. In the vote out, the Roadies were told that if there would be a tie between the two Roadies in getting the highest number of votes against them, then both those Roadies will be safe and again all the Roadies will vote with those two Roadies safe to vote-out one from rest of the six. Prabhjot & Anmol both garnered highest and equal votes against them i.e. four and were safe as per the twist, finally Ankita was eliminated there.
In episode 6, another accident took place. This time it was Ashutosh and Sonel, both escaped with minor injuries. 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. In the vote out there was a twist, it was Ashutosh who had to grant immunity to either of the teams. Shambhavi's team was granted immunity and with this twist, out of the seven remaining roadies, six voted against Prabhjot.
Episode 7 & 8: In this two-part episode, the roadies reach their last destination, Chennai, before they can head to Thailand and Malaysia. The twist is that 5 deserving, previously voted out roadies- Ankita Bajaj, Vikrant, Prabhjot, Vibhor and Snehashish are called back. According to Raghu Ram, only the deserving roadies would go abroad.Four voted out roadies challenged the current roadies ... whilts .. Prabhjot vs Anmol , Ankita vs Shambhavi , Snehashish vs Ashutosh & Vikrant vs Nihal . Prabhjot won as Anmol gave up after cutting the plank of wood for 35 minutes and Nihal also won as a result of which both Anmol and Vikrant go home. Astonishingly Sonel sided with Nihal rather than Vikrant and Shambhavi sided with Vikrant and later in the show Ayaz was voted out. So,the roadies heading to Bangkok are Ashutosh,Nihal,Shambhavi,Sonel,Prabhjot and Vibhor.
In 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.

In episode 10, the money task required the roadies to eat locusts, squid, 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.

In episode 11, the roadies reach Phuket. 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.

In episode 12, the roadies reach Malaysia. Here they participate in a money task, which requires them to balance on a wakeboard. While, Ashutosh and Sonel fail to balance on the wakeboard, Nihal balances for 1 second while Prabhjot and Simran do so for 8 and 13 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.

In episode 13, the roadies reach Port Dickson 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.

The season finale consisted of two-part episode. In the first-part, the final three roadies Sonel, Ashutosh and Nihal reach their final destination Kuala Lumpur. Here, they perform an immunity task in which they are handcuffed, tied to a chair and immersed in a swimming pool. They are required to free themselves and escape while holding their breath inside the water. All three roadies fail to complete the task but Ashutosh is declared the winner of this task by virtue of his staying inside the water for longer duration. Ashutosh is then asked to eliminate either Nihal or Sonel. Ashutosh choses Sonel to be eliminated and hence he and Nihal are chosen as final two roadies. Later on in the episode, the two finalists confront the remaining eliminated roadies. In a surprising departure from the previous seasons, Rannvijay announces that there will be a task between the two finalists and the winner of the task will be crowned the winner of the show. At this moment, Raghu arrives and asks Nihal and Ashutosh to choose five members each from the eliminated contestants, who will assist the respective finalist in their final challenge. Sonel is barred from participating in this final task.

In the second part of the finale, Raghu swaps the teams selected by the finalists. The teams are then required to perform five tasks :-
1) Kiss an Iguana for at least five seconds.
2) Tonsure head.
3) Remove all clothes and donate it to their team leader. The roadie who choses this task is given a newspaper to cover himself.
4) Get two nipple piercings or a tongue piercing.
5) Get slapped by the opposing team leader.

The finalist whose team performs the most number of tasks is declared to be the winner. The two finalists themselves are forbidden from performing the tasks but are expected to convince their team-mates to perform the tasks for them. However, both teams perform all the tasks within their stipulated time and Sonel gets to decide the winner by performing a task and declaring the name of a winner. Sonel kisses the iguana and declares Ashutosh as winner.

[edit] Life after Roadies

Shambhavi Sharma was offered the lead role in The Little Godfather, produced by Ekta Kapoor and Sunil Shetty.^[3]^[4] Another contestant, Anmol Singh bagged a role as Archita in Ekta Kapoor's Kuchh Is Tara.^[5] Varun Saini alongwith Vishal (contestant from MTV Roadies Season 4) have been signed up for another reality show on MTV, titled MTV Splitsvilla.

[edit] Winners till date

Season 1 - There was no official winner but Rannvijay, who was among the two finalists from this season went on to become a MTV VJ and host the following seasons.
Season 2 - Ayushmann Khuranna from Chandigarh
Season 3 - Parul Shahi from Delhi
Season 4 - Anthony Yeh from Kolkata
Season 5 - Ashutosh Kaushik from Saharanpur