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]

Roadies: Revolution
GenreReality
Directed bySagar More
Presented byMTV India
Rannvijay Singh
Roadies Insiders
Yukti Arora
Sohil Singh
JudgesPrince Narula
Neha Dhupia
Nikhil Chinapa
Raftaar
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Hindi
No. of episodes6
Release
Original networkMTV India
Original releaseFebruary 15, 2020 (2020-02-15)
Chronology
Preceded byRoadies: Real Heroes
External links
Website

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 are 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.

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
Prince
Raftaar
Neha
Nikhil

Auditions

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 Verma1 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
June 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
July 4
  1. ^ Ex-Contestant from MTV Roadies Rising

LIVE Auditions

MTV Roadies Revolution LIVE 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 Aarishi 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

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 Chinappa 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]

References
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  4. "MTV Roadies". Voot. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
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  6. Bhasin, Shriya (13 March 2020). "Here's why Neha Dhupia, Nikhil Chinapa abused Roadies Revolution contestant and got brutally trolled". www.indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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