MTV Roadies
Genre	Reality
Created by	Nikhil J Alva
Presented by	Cyrus Shaukar, Nikhil Chinnapa, Ranvijay Singha, Raghu Ram, Rajiv Ram, Neha Dhupia
Judges	see below
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	18
Production
Executive producers	Nikhil J Alva, Niret Alva, Raghu Ram, Rajiv Ram
Production companies	Miditech Studios (2003–2005) Colosceum Media (2010–2021) Pippip Media (2022) Banijay Asia (2023–present)
Original release
Network	MTV India
Release	2003 (2003)

MTV Roadies is a youth-based reality show. It was launched in 2003 and airs on MTV India. The show is also digitally available on Voot and JioCinema.

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 Roadies format was created by Nikhil J Alva, founder of Miditech Studios.^[1][2] Miditech Studios produced the first 2 seasons of the Roadies series. In those early days, the format creator, Nikhil J Alva, had conceptualized the format as one that would unite the youth of India through social work and random acts of kindness as the contestants travelled across India.

Seeing its popularity soar, the series was taken over by MTV from Miditech, to be produced in-house after the second season. Raghu Ram and Rajiv Ram, former Miditech Studio employees, were tasked with producing and anchoring the show for MTV. Under Raghu and Rajiv's guidance, the show took a dramatic turn away from its feel-good-social-flavor, to a more crass, and in-your-face tone.^[1] Raghu and Rajiv left the show in 2014.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.

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 aggressive with over-the-top-reality sequences, from the third season onwards, when it was taken over from Miditech Studios by MTV.

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

In the 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. That was the first time the show went international.^[5]

In the tenth season, a team of former contestants mentored by Raghu Ram were pitted against a team of fresh contestants mentored by Rannvijay Singha, who was the winner of the first version of the contest.^[6]

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.^[7]

In the fourteenth season, bikes, which had been a common aspect of the show, were discontinued and the makers opted for a car. That continued into the fifteenth season as well and so on.^[6]

Season nineteen was introduced with a new concept of debut roadies and ex-roadies competing against each other for the title. Bikes, which had been a common aspect of the earlier seasons, were introduced again. That was 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.^[8][6]

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	—	—		27		10	Chennai to Chail,  India	Bikes to all Roadies	—	Rannvijay Singha
2	2004	Roadies Returns	Rannvijay Singha				30		10	Kolkata to Wagah border,  India	₹5,00,000 + Bikes to all Roadies		Aayushmann Khurrana
3	2005	Roadies 3 - Triple The Danger					17		13	Jaisalmer to Leh,  India	₹4,87,000 + Bikes to 5 (Parul, Rahul, Shubhi, Shubhendru, Sonia)		Parul Shahi	Rahul Sharma
4	2006–07	Roadies - Road To Fear			11 November 2006	3 March 2007	17		13	India	₹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		8 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	—	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
13	2016	Roadies X4: Your Gang, Your Glory	Gaelyn Mendonca	Rannvijay Singh Neha Dhupia Karan Kundra Sushil Kumar Prince Narula01	20 February 2016	19 June 2016	24		22	India,  Bhutan	Renault Duster	Karan Kundrra	Balraj Singh Khehra	Navdeesh Singh
14	2017	Roadies Rising		Rannvijay Singh Neha Dhupia Karan Kundra Nikhil Chinapa02 Gurmeet Singh Rehal03 Prince Narula Harbhajan Singh04	25 February 2017	22 July 2017	26			India		Neha Dhupia	Shweta Mehta	Baseer Ali
15	2018	Roadies Xtreme	Rannvijay Singh	Raftaar Neha Dhupia Nikhil Chinapa Prince Narula	18 February 2018	4 August 2018	28		24				Kashish Thakur	Preeti Kuntal
16	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
17	2020–21	Roadies: Revolution		Raftaar Varun Sood05 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
18	2022	Roadies: Journey in South Africa	Sonu Sood	—	8 April 2022	10 July 2022	34		20	South Africa	₹10,00,000	—	Ashish Bhatia	Jashwanth Bopanna
													Nandini G	Yukti Arora
19	2023	Roadies: Karm Ya Kaand		Gautam Gulati Prince Narula Rhea Chakraborty	3 June 2023	TBA	TBA		TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Notes

• Roadies official website