MTV Roadies
Genre	Reality
Presented by	see below
Judges	see below
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	19
Production
Production companies	Diamond Pictures (2009-2010) Colosceum Media (2010-present)
Original release
Network	MTV India

MTV Roadies is an youth based reality show. It was launched in 2003 that airs on MTV India. The show is also digitally available on Voot.

In this show, a group of contestants travel to different destinations and participate in various tasks that challenge their physical, social and mental strength.

The show is created by Raghu Ram, Rajiv Lakshman and RJ Amit. They left the show in 2014.^[1] They told the media that they had done enough to popularise the show and wanted to give opportunities to the new generation to carry the show forward. With a 17-year history, it is one of India's longest running reality shows.^[2]

During the course of the journey there are vote outs, vote ins, eliminations and game changing twists. Eventually the contestant who manages to survive vote outs and succeed in the finale is chosen as the winner. The show has enjoyed relative success among the youth. When asked about the show, the executive producer said, "Roadies has travel, adventure, drama".

The first two seasons had a cap on the daily budget allocated to the contestants. During the show, apart from learning about India's diversity, they were also given tasks to get to know each other.
The tasks became more challenging from the third season onwards. Though Raghu Ram claims that the concept of the show is his brainchild, it can clearly be seen copying a lot of ideas from Survivor USA .

Since fourth season, Battleground (2006-2009, 2014-present) later known as Graveyard (2010-2011, 2013-2014) introduced to choose the wild cards.

In fifth season, The "Advantage task" was introduced. The winner of the task would get an advantage in the vote out, which could be multiple votes or being the only one(s) to vote. This was also the first time the show went international.^[3]

In the tenth season, a team of former contestants mentored by Raghu Ram were pitted against a team of fresh contestants mentored by Rannvijay.^[4]

In the twelfth season, during the auditions, Gang leaders were introduced. Four Gang Leaders had to hit a buzzer to express their interest in a contestant. Contestants in return had the option to choose which gang they would like to be a part of.^[5]

In the fourteenth season, bikes, which had been a common aspect of the show, were discontinued and the makers opted for a car. This has continued in the fifteenth season as well and so on.^[4]

Season Nineteenth was introduced with a new concept of debutee roadies and Ex-Roadies competing against each other for the title. These was also the first season without the presence of Rannvijay Singha.

Across all seasons, vote outs, vote ins, immunity, eliminations, captaincy, twists introduced by the makers and special appearances by guests like actors, sportspersons and musicians have been regular features of the show.^[6][4]

Season	Year	Title	Host	Gang Leaders	Date		No.of Episodes		Contestants	Destinations	Prize money	Winning Gang Leader	Winner	Runner-up
					Launch	Finale
1	2003	Roadies - Challenges Har Kadam Par	Cyrus Sahukar	None	N/A	N/A	27		10	India	₹5,00,000	None	Rannvijay Singha
2	2004	Roadies Returns	Rannvijay Singha				30		10				Aayushmann Khurrana
3	2005	Roadies 3 - Triple The Danger					13		17		₹3,60,000		Parul Shahi	Rahul Sharma
4	2006–07	Roadies - Road To Fear			11 November 2006	3 March 2007	17		13		₹3,75,500		Anthony Yeh	Gurbani Judge
5	2007–08	Roadies 5.0			28 October 2007	13 January 2008	20		15	India,  Thailand &  Malaysia	₹2,30,000		Ashutosh Kaushik	Nihal Nikam
6	2008–09	Roadies Hell Down Under			29 November 2008	26 April 2009	21		20	India,  Australia	₹3,62,000		Nauman Sait	Lonkiri Timung
7	2009–10	Roadies:7 Deadly Sins & 1 Wild Safari	Rannvijay Singha & Bani J		November 2009	25 June 2010	22		15	India,  Kenya &  Egypt	₹90,000		Anwar Syed	Zaid Bin Nazir
8	2011	Roadies 8: Shortcut to Hell	Rannvijay Singha		19 January 2011	18 June 2011	28		13	India,  Brazil	₹4,00,000		Aanchal Khurana	Mohit Saggar
9	2012	Roadies 9: Everything or Nothing			7 January 2012	30 June 2012	27			India,  United States	₹6,17,000		Vikas Khoker	Himani Sharma
10	2013	Roadies X: Battle for Glory	Bani J	Raghu Ram Rannvijay Singh	19 January 2013	11 May 2013	17		16	India	₹4,50,000	Raghu Ram	Palak Johal	Ramandeep Kaur Dhillon
11	2014	Roadies X1: Ride for Respect		None	25 January 2014	18 May 2014	18		15		₹3,20,000	None	Nikhil Sachdeva	Utkarsh Khanna
12	2015	Roadies X2: Your Road, Your Gang		Rannvijay Singh Esha Deol Karan Kundra Vijender Singh	26 January 2015	27 June 2015	22		22	India,  Nepal	₹5,00,000	Rannvijay Singha	Prince Narula	Gurmeet Singh Rehal
The Producers skipped X3 for the season's title and went for X4
14	2016	Roadies X4: Your Gang, Your Glory	Gaelyn Mendonca	Rannvijay Singh Neha Dhupia Karan Kundra Sushil Kumar Prince Narula1	20 February 2016	19 June 2016	24		22	India,  Bhutan	Renault Duster	Karan Kundra	Balraj Singh Khehra	Navdeesh Singh
15	2017	Roadies Rising		Rannvijay Singh Neha Dhupia Karan Kundra Nikhil Chinapa2 Gurmeet Singh Rehal3 Prince Narula Harbhajan Singh4	25 February 2017	22 July 2017	26			India		Neha Dhupia	Shweta Mehta	Baseer Ali
16	2018	Roadies Xtreme	Rannvijay Singh	Raftaar Neha Dhupia Nikhil Chinapa Prince Narula	18 February 2018	4 August 2018	28		24				Kashish Thakur	Preeti Kuntal
17	2019	Roadies: Real Heroes		Raftaar Neha Dhupia Nikhil Chinapa Prince Narula Sandeep Singh	10 February 2019	18 August 2019	28		27		Droom Used Super Bike	Raftaar	Arun Sharma	Ankita Pathak
18	2020–21	Roadies: Revolution		Raftaar Varun Sood5 Neha Dhupia Nikhil Chinapa Prince Narula	15 February 2020	21 March 2020	6	36	25		Jawa Bike and ₹3,00,000 to Nikhil Chinapa's cause	Nikhil Chinapa	Hamid Barkzi	Michael Ajay
					27 June 2020	16 January 2021	30
19	2022	Roadies: Safar-ing in South Africa	Sonu Sood	TBA	8 April 2022	TBA	TBA		TBA	South Africa	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Notes

• Roadies official website