Mtv Roadies History, Background, Contestants

Mtv Roadies History, Background, Contestants

One of the most happening things that today's youth talk about and elders crib about.

From the very beginning, it has been a very healthy & tough competition between MTV & Channel [V]. Channel [V] started the "[V] Popstars" and soon after that "Roadies" came On MTV.

The sixth edition of Roadies is about to begin as the auditions are over and will be aired on MTV soon.

Check out the rear view of MTV roadies
(A gist of who was who in the last 5 years).

Season 1

Started on:
August 15th 2003

Contestants:
1. Divya Shukla from Bangalore
2. Tony Kordelia from Pune
3. Mini Goel from Chandigarh
4. Rannvijay Singh Singha from Delhi
5. Ranjit Bajaj from Chandigarh
6. Natasha Gulati from Delhi
7. Ignoor Bains from Rajpura, Punjab.

Winner:
No official winner was declared as no one could complete the task.
But Ranvijay got the fame and turned out to be the most happening next VJ on MTV
and hosted all the next roadies & also the recent Splitsvilla.

Season 2

Started on:
August 21st 2004

Contestants:
1. Aarti Seth from Delhi
2. Ayushmann Khurrana from Chandigarh
3. Candy Brar from Chandigarh
4. Neha Bhatia from Pune
5. Shaleen Bhanot from Mumbai
6. Vinod Rawat from Mumbai
7. Varun Agarwal from Kolkata

Winner:
Ayushmann Khurrana.

Season 3

Started on
November 11th 2005

Contestants
1. Shubhi Mehta from Mumbai
2. Priyanka Bhau from Delhi
3. Stuti Nagpal from Delhi
4. Abhijeet Ghosh from Secunderabad
5. Rahul Mehta from Delhi
6. Krishnesh Nayak from Hydrabad
7. Parul Shahi from New Delhi
8. Sonia Clark from Chandigarh
9. Amitinder S Deepak from Chandigarh
10. Meher Ahmed from Guwhati
11. Anuj Sachdeva from Delhi
12. Laveen Bhardwaj from Chandigarh
13. Shubendru Sood from Chandigarh

Winner:
Parul Shahi. The first girl to win on Roadie.
Truly daring. After roadie, we didn't see much of Parul anywhere.

Season 4

Started on:
11 November 2006 at 7 pm.

Contestants:
1. Raj Roy from Kolkata
2. Poonam Thacker from Kolkata
3. Anthony Yeh from Kolkata
4. Rishabh Dhir from Mumbai
5. Swati Ahuja from Delhi
6. Shaleen Malhotra from Delhi
7. Sonam Gupta from Delhi
8. Roopali Anand from Delhi
9. Ankit Mohan from Delhi
10. Gurbani (aka Bani) Judge from Chandigarh
11. Vishal Karwal from Chandigarh
12. Sahil Anand from Chandigarh
13. Amandeep Narang's (aka Oorja) from Chandigarh

Winner:
Anthony Yeh.
It was a surprise for most of them that he actually survived until the final round.
We didn't see Antony just like Parul after Rodies.

Season 5

Started on:
22nd March 2007

Contestants:
1. Varun from Chandigarh
2. Prabhjot from Chandigarh
3. Vibhor from Chandigarh
4. Ayaz from Kolkata
5. Ankita from Kolkata
6. Shambhavi from Delhi
7. Anmol from Delhi
8. Vikrant from Delhi
9. Ankita aka simran from Delhi
10. Sonel from Delhi
11. Aashutosh aka aashu from Jaipur (Delhi-reject/Chandigarh-reject)
12. Nihal from Mysore but was selected from Mumbai auditions
13. Snehashish from Mumbai

Winner:
Aashutosh aka aashu. He won the game without any pain and struggle.
He said no to eat non-veg, had an accident with Sonel but played nice mind games and politics to survive till the end.

Life After Roadies ...

Roadie Rannvijay Singh - Season 1

One of the winners of Roadies season 1, this Delhi ka bandha is the host of MTV Hero Honda Roadies, Vodafone MTV Splitsvilla, among other shows. He just shot for his Bollywood debut film – TOSS and signed up for Vipul Shah's next – London Dreams, starring Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan.

Roadie Shambhvi - Season 5

This petite Roadie is now on her way to stardom. She is already shooting for Suneil Shetty's next film under Popcorn Entertainment – The Little Godfather. This white beauty has been recently roped in a South Indian flick, now that's a contrast we're waiting to see.

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Roadie Bani - Season 4

Roadies 4 finalist and now an MTV VJ, Bani is the host of Pepsi & MTV Wassup and MTV On the Job. She made her Bollywood debut with Himmesh in Aap ka Surroor. Bani's appalling tattoos and bold attitude got her campaigning for Reebok.

Roadie Ayushman - Season 2

Now an MTV VJ, he is hearing what the youngistans have to say on Pepsi and MTV Wassup. He could not get fame as soon as he won the roadies. But much later an year back, MTV considered him for another happening program "Wassup Youngistan".

Roadies Varun and Vishal - Season 5

They had girls fighting for their attention in MTV's bold romance reality show – Vodafone MTV Splitsvilla.

Roadie Shubhi - Season 3

This Roadie scored a goal in Chak de India with her Bollywood debut as Gunjan with King Khan as her coach.

Roadie Anmol - Season 5

Her attitude in Roadies 5.0 got her a role in Ekta Kapoor's serial Kuchh Is Tara.

Roadie Aashu - Season 5

This village boy has ruled the hearts of many with his attitude. Winner of Roadies 5.0,
he is now one of the 14 participants of Bigg Boss Season 2.