What is MTV Roadies?
MTV Roadies is an adventure reality show aired on MTV India. It's the brainchild of none other but Raghu, who together with Nikhil Chinapa, selects the Roadies from the contestants.
Contestants selected are given the tag Roadies. Quite simply the selected contestants, or Roadies are given bikes to travel on a pre-decided route. Each episode features a vote-out at the end in which the Roadies eliminate one or more of their fellow Roadies, thereby decreasing the number of roadies carrying on with the journey.
So, an elimination till only one is left. To make the show exciting the crew changes conditions depending upon prevailing politics and groups among the Roadies.To further the element of uncertainty, voted out Roadies can be reinstated any time. Riding the bike is also an equally important task of the game.
Game Format
The Roadies and the crew travel their route, stopping by at hotels and performing unique challenges set out in the local place. Each episode consists of number of tasks or challenges which they have to perform. These tasks can be either "Money tasks" or "Immunity tasks" or "Advantage tasks".
In the "Money tasks", the Roadies collectively perform the challenges and add cash to the winner's account. What might get the Roadies pumped up to perform, because secretly they all might be imagining themselves, taking home the booty.
In "Immunity tasks", the winning Team/Roadie gets Immunity, which means that they survive that vote-out.
In the "Advantage Tasks", which has been introduced from the Season 5.0, the winner(s) get some advantage in that vote out. The exact advantage decided by the production, and revealed at the vote-out with the purpose to spice things up and possibly spoil any plans and group votes. It may include multiple votes, or being the only ones to vote in the vote-out.
The above mentioned tasks are either team-based (i.e. performed between two or more teams) or individually. At the end of scheduled journey, the last Roadie who survives till the end is the winner and walks away with the total cash accumulated by the performance of all the Roadies. Being such a tough competition, the top three Roadies are taken on an equal footing. As a matter of fact, they are immortalized in "Morgue" in the "Roadies Rehab Center" quite adoringly!
Off to Roadies 6.0
Eligibility in nutshell
Entrants should be 18+ years of age and Indian nationals, participating at their own risk and Entrants must have a valid 2-wheeler driving license and a passport. Conditions apply.
Getting selected
The original audition form has been
replaced. The auditions begin on
17th Sept at KolKata (more)
Just before you jump, an insider info, the interview round is deliberately acrimonious (bitter and sharp in language or tone, taunting, incisive, caustic, possibly insulting) to test the participant's attitude, tolerance and patience levels.
Also, in a video floating around the Internet, Raghu has warned all aspirants not to assume anything.
What he wants to get across is that since he has been observed and for so long, people might have dissected his personality and hence may try to pull wool over his eyes, but
"I am paid to catch you off guard", says Raghu.
Also, this opinion of judges I found on a video at Youtube might help you understand their point of view better, which in end will help you perform better,
"Judges are great...Hats off to them...Some people can't understand, because most of Indian youth in these auditions are fakers..dumb...spoiled...
Judges are handling these spoiled kids really well. I have also seen that they always have respected genuine people at the end.
People can't take them because they show them a mirror and so many have denied or shy away to face the truth" (link)
Some tips:
There is no limit as to how many times a person can audition. So, it might be better to begin attempts from the first venue.
Remember Ashutosh from season 5.0. He was rejected in two and selected in third attempt. Because he tried in all of them.
"Do not portray any thing just be real" (link)
"The guys should handle Raghu's hyper with a little cool mind...he just only checks how much the guy/girl could handle with real balls" (link)
"If you have tried for MTV roadies and you didn’t get selected then its your fault. This I am saying because what I saw is that Nikhil and Raghu want only honest persons to come for the auditions.
Some participants trying to fake that they are tough and they can take any challenge in Roadies. But what I saw that this flakiness is making Raghu and Nikhil mad and crazy."