MTV Roadies (season 18)

Roadies: Revolution is the eighteenth season of Indian reality show MTV Roadies, which premiered on MTV on February 15, 2020. Prince Narula, Nikhil Chinapa, Neha Dhupia, Raftaar returned as Leaders while Rannvijay Singh continues as the host.[1][2]

MTV Roadies
Season 18
Presented by	MTV India Rannvijay Singh Roadies Insiders Yukti Arora Sohil Singh
Judges	Neha Dhupia Prince Narula Nikhil Chinapa Raftaar
No. of contestants	20
Winner	TBA
Runner-up	TBA
Country of origin	India
No. of episodes	13 (as of 8 August 2020)
Release
Original network	MTV India
Original release	15 February 2020 (2020-02-15) – Present
Season chronology

In this season, there is no gang leader nor any gang. The contestants are going to fight solo during their journey solo right from the beginning. In the previous seasons from Roadies X2 contestants are grouped into gangs under a gang leader to perform their tasks and they fight solo towards the end of the show.[3]

For the very first time, the show is being streamed on Voot steaming platform a day before the TV which is made exclusively available only to Voot Select subscribers.[4]

After six episodes, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the show dates were postponed until further instructions from March 28. Repeat telecast will be shown during this period.

For the first time in Roadies history, Audition happened LIVE on social media platform during the COVID-19 Lock-down in India, from April 27 to June 17, where one auditionee won the chance to join the Roadies Journey.

After three months, the show was continued on June 27, 2020 onwards and telecasted new episodes.

Leaders

Rannvijay Singh is presenting the show while Prince Narula, Nikhil Chinapa, Neha Dhupia and Raftaar served as the leaders of MTV Roadies Revolution.

Later Varun Sood replaced Raftaar in the journey as the later was not available during some part of journey.

Roadies Badges

Roadies Badge is being introduced in this season, the stars on the badge will help the leaders to reach the Finale.

Leaders	No. of Stars
Raftaar
Prince
Nikhil
Neha

Revolution Factor

This season the Roadies and Leaders participated in various Task throughout the Journey, to win money to help people in need.

Episode	Task	Description	Winning Leader(s)	Donation/Contribution
11	First Task: Punch Tantra	Donated money for the orphan children from Divya Prem Sewa Mishan to install smart class.	Raftaar	₹ 1,00,000 (1 lakh INR)
12	Second Task: Meal Mile Ke	Gave free foods for the school children from Divya Prem Sewa Mishan. And donated money for digital boards for the school.	Neha Nikhil Prince	Free Food for the children
13-14	Third Task: Yoga Naw	Contributed money to install solar panels in the Kunao Village.	Prince	₹ 1,00,000 (1 lakh INR)
14	Fourth Task: Dung Se	Dung cakes made by the Roadies & Leaders will be sold by the Villagers.	Prince	Dung cakes sold by the Villagers in their business

Auditions — Episode 1 to 9

MTV Roadies Revolution Auditions were held at Delhi on 5 January, Chandigarh on 7 January, Kolkata on 11 January 2020, and Pune on 15 January 2020. In an interview with Zoom Digital, Neha Dhupia said, "This season of Roadies is called Roadies Revolution. It is 2020 and I feel we all should raise our voices for things that are absolutely right and if the youth is not ready to raise their voice then who is? As per our last experiences, I feel that youth is ready to raise their voice. As a leading youth channel, I can promise that we will try our level best to start a revolution, to start a little spark if nothing else".[5] Ranvijay Singha, when asked in Kolkata press conference, "It's wonderful to have you back in Calcutta for the 'Roadies' auditions after three years. Why the gap in between, considering you had told us earlier that you have got some of your best contestants over various editions from this part of the country?", said, "I don't take Roadies for granted. The contestant who wants to be a Roadie will come from America.

The contestants had to get a least of 3 votes from the leaders and Rannvijay had a special power to cast 2 votes.

Episode Date	Venue	Contestant	City	Leaders' Votes				Rannvijay's Vote	Result	Fastest Predictor
				Prince	Raftaar	Neha	Nikhil
Feb 15	Delhi	Abhimanyu Singh	Bhopal						Advanced	Raftaar
		Zabi Khan	Hyderabad						Advanced	Prince
		Akash Rana	Chandigarh	None				None	Not Selected	None
		Vipin Kumar	Lucknow					None	Advanced	None
Feb 22		Saqib Khan	Srinagar					None	Advanced	Cancelled
		Sumit Sharma	Delhi					None	Not Selected	None
		Taniya Hussain	Ghaziabad					None	Not Selected	None
		Ninaad Wagh	Pune						Advanced	None
		Soumya Sachdeva	Delhi					None	Advanced	None
		Milan Verma^a	Panipat	None				None	Declined Audition	None
		Akash Verma						None	Advanced	Neha
		Aditya Bhardwaj	Delhi					None	Not Selected	None
Feb 29	Pune	Micheal Ajay	Bangalore					None	Advanced	Nikhil
		Pratibha Singh	Bhopal					None	Advanced	None
		Karan Kapoor	Pune					None	Not Selected	None
		Malhar Kalambe	Mumbai						Advanced	Neha
Mar 7		Arushi Chawla	Delhi					None	Advanced	Neha
		Madhav Sharma	Hoshiarpur					None	Not Selected	None
		Prabhat Chaudhary	Ghaziabad					None	Not Selected	None
		Kevin Almasifar	Pune					None	Advanced	None
		Akanksha Singh	Dehradun					None	Advanced	Raftaar
		Apoorva Gole	Mumbai					None	Advanced	Prince
Mar 14		Jueili Vaidya						None	Advanced	Prince
		Sanjay Negi	Uttarakhand					None	Advanced	None
		Amar Ojha	Goa					None	Not Selected	None
		Syed Salman	Bangalore					None	Advanced	None
	Chandigarh	Prakhar Narayan	Lucknow					None	Advanced	Prince
		Harshit Bhalla	New Delhi					None	Not Selected	None
		Sehej Maini	Pune					None	Advanced	Neha
Mar 21		Sapna Malik	Chandigarh					None	Advanced	None
		Nidhi Mahesh Kumar	Haryana					None	Not Selected	None
		Sakshi Sharma	Gurdaspur					None	Advanced	Raftaar
		Deepika Shekhawat	Jaipur					None	Advanced	Neha
		Hamid Barkji	Delhi					None	Advanced	None
		Tarandeep Singh						None	Advanced	Nikhil
		Akshita Sharma	Haryana						Advanced	None
Jun 27		Ashish Jangid	Jaipur	None				None	Not Selected	None
		Nisha Dhaundiyal	Chandigarh					None	Advanced	Raftaar
		Ayushi Dogra	Himachal Pradesh						Advanced	Prince
		Kavita Bhati (Green)	Rajasthan					None	Not Selected	None
		Smita Pariyar	Darjeeling					None	Advanced	None
Jul 4	Kolkata	Kakoli Mondal	Kolkata						Advanced	None
		Nistha Mukharjee						None	Advanced	None
		Kartik Singh	Jaipur					None	Advanced	None
		Chetan Titre	Nagpur	None				None	Not Selected	None
		Rubina Khan	Jammu & Kashmir					None	Not Selected	None
		Manisha Deka	Assam					None	Advanced	None
Jul 11		Aman Poddar	Kolkata						Advanced	Nikhil
		Bhawish Madaan	Amritsar					None	Advanced	Prince
		Akshay Arora	Delhi					None	Not Selected	None
		Radhakrishna Nanda	Odisha					None	Advanced	None
		Jayant Yadav	Ranchi					None	Advanced	None

1. ^a Ex-Contestant from MTV Roadies Rising

Facebook auditions

Auditions were held on the Facebook page of Colors TV and MTV Roadies every week, where Rannvijay audition the contestants. These contestants have auditioned by other judges during the week. ( represents the judge who was a part of the auditions that day.)
The selected contestants were revealed on MTV India on Saturdays, 7pm.

DJ Skip joined the LIVE Auditions to add music to the Auditions.

Episode Date	Contestant	Judges' Audition							Rannvijay's Audition		June 20
		Prince	Raftaar	Neha	Nikhil	Special Appearance		Result	Culling	Semi-Finale	Finale
May 2	Rishab Rai					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Rhythm Rony Vohra					-		Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Abhay Mishr					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Sandeep Dhiman					-		Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Lost Challenge & was Eliminated
	Rakesh Dayaseelan					Shruti MTV Roadies Xtreme		Advanced	Not Selected
May 9	Chopsy Oberoi					Yukti Arora MTV Roadies Real Heroes		Advanced	Not Selected
	Ritu Pandey					-		Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Shashwat Vedant					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Shirin Ansari					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Ramit Sapra					Aarushi Dutta MTV Roadies Real Heroes		Advanced	Not Selected
	Asmita Kataria					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Harshitha Sidhraj					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Manan Sachdeva					-		Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
May 16	Prithleen Kaur					Shruti MTV Roadies Xtreme		Advanced	Not Selected
	Abhishek Singh					-		Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Avinash Khurana					Kashish MTV Roadies Xtreme		Advanced	Not Selected
	Ayushi Chandani					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Hemant Kumar					Ashish MTV Roadies Real Heroes		Advanced	Not Selected
	Sangam Kaushik					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Khushboo					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Anmol Malik					-		Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
May 23	Vyomesh Koul					-		Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Naveen Kapoor					Varun MTV Roadies Rising		Advanced	Not Selected
	Nishtha Kumar							Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Saurav Roy Swer							Not Selected
	Ekansh Taneja					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Chelsea D'Silva					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Jagriti Gemini					-		Not Selected
	Muskan Kalra					-		Advanced	Not Selected
May 30	Anjali Rawat					Karan Kundra Former Gang Leader	-	Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Suchika Tariyal						Tarun MTV Roadies Real Heroes	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Voted-out Challenged Sandeep & replaced him	Eliminated
	Anshika Chopra						Shruti MTV Roadies Xtreme	Advanced	Not Selected
	Bhagyashree					Kusha Kapila Digital Creator		Advanced	Not Selected
	Saksham Kohli							Not Selected
	Ravish Wadhwani							Advanced	Not Selected
	Rajni Hajong Bairagi					-		Advanced	Not Selected
June 6	Nishtha Rahi					Gaurav Thukral MTV Roadies Real Heroes		Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Khushi Verma					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Shekib					-		Not Selected
	Suyash Parasher					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Prez Prerna					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Jay Bhurani					-		Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Eliminated
	Neharika Arora					-		Not Selected
	Jigyasa Arora					-		Advanced	Not Selected
June 13	Shreya Kalra					Divya & Varun Ace Of Space 1		Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Winner
	Gagan Verma							Advanced	Advanced	Advanced	Not Selected
	Akshata Kotian							Advanced	Not Selected
	Vanshika							Not Selected
	Ali Tojari					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Samarth Verma					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Neha Rawat					-		Advanced	Not Selected
	Pratibha Arora					-		Not Selected

LIVE Auditions Finale Vote-out

Contestant	Voted for	Tie Breaker	Votes Received
Sandeep	Gagan	Not eligible	0
Ritu	Suchika	Not eligible	2
Vyomesh	Jay	Not eligible	0
Suchika	Jay	Not eligible	2
Jay	Ritu	Not eligible	2
Shreya	Suchika	Suchika	-
Gagan	Ritu	Not eligible	1
Voted-out	Suchika

Culling — Episode 9 & 10

Episode Date	Batch	Contestants					Advanced				On Hold
Jul 11	1	Abhimanyu Singh	Aman Poddar	Micheal Ajay	Nikhil	Akash Verma	Micheal Ajay	Abhimanyu Singh		Akash Verma	Aman Poddar
	2	Pratibha Singh	Malhar Kalambe		Sehej Maini	Zabi Khan	Zabi Khan	Sehej Maini		Pratibha Singh	-
	3	Arushi Chawla	Jueili Vaidya	Kakoli Mondal	Smita Pariyar	Manisha Deka	Arushi Chawla				Kakoli Mondal
Jul 18	4	Tarandeep Singh	Sanjay Negi	Vipin Kumar	Honey	Jayant Yadav	Sanjay Negi	Vipin Kumar	Jayant Yadav	Tarandeep Singh	-
	5	Shisti Sudhera	Apoorva Gole	Nistha Mukherjee	Sakshi Sharma	Sapna Malik	Apoorva Gole	Sapna Malik		Shisti Sudhera	-
	6	Kevin Almasifar	Bhawish Madaan		Anshul Setia	Syed Salman	Kevin Almasifar				-
	7	Nisha Dhaundiyal	Soumya Sachhadeva	Akshita Sharma	Hamid Barkji	Ninaad Wagh	Nisha Dhaundiyal	Akshita Sharma		Hamid Barkji	-
	8	Deepika Shekhawat		Ayushi Dogra	Anjali Sharma	Akansha Singh	-				-
	9	Saqib Khan	Radhakrishna Nanda	Prakhar Narayan	Navjot	Kartik Singh	Saqib Khan				-
		Aman Poddar		Kakoli Mondal			Aman Poddar

Total:

• Male = 12
• Female = 8

Journey - Rishikesh — Episode 11 to TBA

Sehej couldn't join the journey as she was absent due to her international sports championship. She was replaced by Kakoli.

Rannvijay then announced that the Leaders will lose their stars, if the Roadies they predicted in the Auditions, didn't make it to the journey.

Leaders	No. of Stars Pre culling	Roadies who made it			Stars lost	No. of Stars Post culling
Prince		Shrishti	Apoorva	Zabi	-3
Raftaar		Abhimanyu	Nisha	—	-2
Neha		Akash	Arushi	—	-1
Nikhil		Micheal	Tarandeep	Aman	-1

First Task: Punch Tantra

Leaders had to select one Roadies to start off the task and then it was up to them to choose which roadie they wanted to be a part of their team who were chained at each stage. The starting roadie is as follows:

Leader	Starting Player
Neha	Akshita
Prince	Pratibha
Raftaar	Abhimanyu
Nikhil	Shisti

The task was based on the 5 senses of the human body and they had to perform by selection chain basis. At the end of the task teams were(listed by the senses they were chained at):

Team	Roadies					Result
	Sight	Touch	Sound	Smell	Taste
A	Akshita	Michael	Arushi	Aman	Jayant	1st
B	Pratibha	Kevin	Nisha	Zabi	Apoorva	2nd
C	Shisti	Akash	Sapna	Tarandeep	Vipin	Lost
D	Abhimanyu	Saqib	Kakoli	Hamid	Sanjay	Lost

Though the winning team started for Neha, they selected Raftaar in the end by which he won the task and received one star and Team A became immune.

The team coming in second choose Prince, he had the power to save one Roadie from their team to be immune, he eventually chose Pratibha.

Leaders	No. of Stars
Raftaar
Prince
Neha
Nikhil

Second Task: Meal Mile Ke

In this task contestants had to prepare meals for school children. 14 non-immune Roadies along with Leaders - Prince, Neha and Nikhil will compete to earn 8 immunities. And the 6 immune Roadies along with Rannvijay and Raftaar will also be participating to steal immunity from them.

Each kid from the school had coupons, the Roadies had to earn the coupons from them by selling food or by entertaining them. 40 coupons will equal to 1 immunity, i.e., 320 coupons will equal to 8 immunities.

Team		Coupons Earned	Result
Non-Immune Roadies	Team Burger	105 Coupons	Won 5 Immunities
	Team Noodles	115 Coupons
Immune Roadies	Team Pizza	109 Coupons	Stole 3 Immunities

Raftaar got a chance to choose who will distribute immunity. He chose Nikhil and Prince. Nikhil Choose Akash, Apoorva, Hamid, Taran, while Prince choose Vipin, Sapna, Nisha, Sakib to give immunity. But previously immune roadies stole the immunity of Sapna, Nisha, Sakib which put them in danger of going home along with the non-immune roadies.

Third Task: Yoga Naw

Before the start of the task, the roadies were woken early morning to be trained by a Yoga teacher about the various asans which was a part of the task.

The leaders competed in a mini task to get a advantage in the task first and choose order of other Leaders. Nikhil won advantage and he choose himself to go first, Prince second, Raftaar third and Neha fourth. The advantage was, when the other team would start the task i.e., 10 seconds apart from each leaders team.

Teams had to collect 5 balls, at least 2 of each Red(hard asan) and Yellow(easy asan) from river to get the yoga asan stage to perform. The fastest team to do so and drink the Alofruit juice scored a point(Prince's team).

Leader	Roadies					Balls collected	Points			Results
							After Stage 1	Correct Yoga asan	End of the Task
Nikhil	Nisha	Jayant	Sapna	Hamid	Sanjay	4	-2	3	1	Lost
Prince	Akash	Abhimanyu	Michael	Shisti	Kakoli	5	1	8	9	1st
Raftaar	Aman	Arushi	Kevin	Apoorva	Zabi	5	-1	1	0	Lost
Neha	Pratibha	Akshita	Vipin	Tarandeep	-	Disqualified	-2	8	6	2nd

Prince won the task and received one star and 5 Roadies became immune.

Leaders	No. of Stars
Raftaar
Prince
Neha
Nikhil

Fourth Task: Dung Se

In this task, 14 non-immune Roadies along with Leaders - Raftaar, Neha and Nikhil will compete to earn 7 immunities. And the 5 immune Roadies along with Rannvijay and Prince will participate to steal immunity from them.

73 dung cake were needed by the immune team to steal 1 immunity.

Team	Dung cakes made	Result
Non-Immune Roadies	512	Won 7 Immunities
Immune Roadies	235	Stole 3 Immunities

Vote out order

Position	Gang	Roadie	Total Votes
1	None	Saqib	12

Voting History

Destination		Rishikesh
Episode		13
													Last vote-out	Semi Final	Final
Leaders Vote to:		Immune
	Prince	Vipin Sapna Nisha Saqib
	Nikhil	Akash Apoorva Hamid Tarandeep
	Neha	Blocked
	Raftaar	Neha^1 (block)
Roadies Vote to:		Eliminate
	Abhimanyu	Saqib
	Akash	Kevin
	Akshita	Saqib
	Apoorva	Saqib
	Arushi	Shisti
	Aman	Saqib
	Hamid	Saqib
	Jayant	Saqib
	Kevin	Shisti
	Micheal	Saqib
	Nisha	Kevin
	Pratibha	Nisha
	Sanjay	Saqib
	Sapna	Kevin
	Kakoli	Saqib
	Shisti	Saqib
	Tarandeep	Saqib
	Vipin	Sanjay
	Zabi	Saqib
Saqib		Shisti	Voted-out (Ep 13)
Voted-out		Saqib

     Indicates the contestant was immune that week.

     Indicates the contestant was in the danger that week.

     Indicates the contestant was eliminated that week.

     The contestant quit the competition

     Indicates the contestant wild card entry in the competition.

     Indicates the contestant won the task and was saved from elimination.

     Indicates the contestant was eliminated outside vote out that week.

     Indicates the contestant is the runner up.

     Indicates the contestant won the competition.

Note

• ^1 - Raftaar as the winning Leader of First Task, had the power to steal the power of immunity from one of the three Leaders. He chose Neha.

Controversy

Neha Dhupia came under heat for some comments she made during the audition of Karan Kapoor in Pune. During the audition Kapoor shared an anecdote with the judges about slapping his girlfriend who was being disloyal to him by being with five other men at the time of being in a monogamous relationship with him. Dhupia confronted Kapoor aggressively by saying it's her choice justifying cheating.[6][7] Dhupia, along side Chinapa and Narula, had on a previous season of Roadies commended a girl who slapped four boys during her relationships with them. As the episode aired in India the audiences took to Twitter to express disdain for Dhupia's actions. #FakeFeminism was trending in India for several days with viewers terming Dhupia "fake feminist" and accusing her of being sexist towards men.[8] The incident received widespread backlash and a slurry of abuses and memes poured in over the internet for Dhupia.[9][10] The matter was picked up by major news outlets which emphasized that Dhupia was blaming the victim while promoting promiscuity in the name of "women empowerment".[11][12][13][14][15] Dhupia released a statement standing by her actions while condemning domestic violence in relationships.[16][17]

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External links

• Web Episodes on Voot