KKKRoadies and The Sound Of Toon. Review on MTV Roadies

Ernest Hemingway once said: ‘There are only three sports; Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountaineering. All the rest are mere games.’

And the recent bhav-tol of Cricket players for the upcoming IPL makes it certain. Cricket now is a wholesale market and will never be same again.

So, if you want to watch a real kickass sport/game/travelogue-reality show(whatever you call it), MTV Roadies is the perfect pick.

For uninitiated, Roadies is a once-a-year weekly based reality show wherein the participants(13 in number) get to roam around on Karizma bike across India and every week one person is e

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liminated till a winner emerges. The last 5 five get their own Karizma bike to take home. Everyone truly does want to become the final roadie, but everyone’s short term goal is to reach the final five. Participants are given tasks which can be ruthless and weird to an extent word unimaginable gets a whole new meaning. But that’s the specialty of Roadies. And that’s what gives youngsters a real kick.

Roadies is like an instant fame:and so are other reality shows you may say like those based on singing, dancing et al but those require some talent as a pre-requisite. For Roadies, all you need is a hat-ke attitude, few funky colorful words to support your spot. More colorful the words more are the chances of your views getting across.

Roadies is like a chat room:one-to-one chat, multi-person chat, group chat. This has every kind of chats and the discussions amongst participants which would give(K)Ekta Kapoor soaps a massive complex.

Roadies is like a speed dating:one of the valuable spin-offs of being part of roadies is you have a high probability of scoring with the opposite sex(sometimes same) even if you look ugly; all in the name of vote.

Roadies is like a menopause:as Hollywood comedienne Rita Rudner says: ‘with female menopause, you get hot flushes and with male menopause, you drive motorcycles.’

All said and done

Roadies is like a Road Rocket:there hasn’t been anything like this on Indian TV and there would not be anything which would even come closer to it given the cult status it has achieved.

There are two levels of selection procedure: Group discussion and a one-to-one with interviewers Raghu and Nikhil.The selection procedure itself goes on for close to 2 months. And trust me; the tête-à-tête which happens with Raghu and Nikhil is something beyond imagination. They will literally rim you, suck your heart out and ultimately fcuk you with their questions. This is an experience in itself. 13 finalists get to be the part of this show and are they are called MTV ROADIES.

The predictability ends there. What happens after this is a complete chaos which varies every year. I have been a regular viewer of this high-adrenaline show ever since it came into existence 5 years back and I discuss it with fellow enthusiasts’ akin cinema, politics and cricket.

Now, let me say few things about the current season which is called MTV Roadies 5.0. As I write this, seven of them have been eliminated in the show after much drama and controversies. By the way, this is first time in the history of the Roadies that the game has gone international and last 6 will now fly to Thailand and Malaysia after the show saw a sleek start in Goa with stopover in Bangalore, Pondicherry and Chennai.

The show is hosted by the Roadies 1.0 participant Rannvijay(there wasn’t an official winner that year) who also hosted all previous seasons. Roadies 1.0 and Roadies 2.0 are not very fresh in my memory as that time show was just in its infant stages. However, IMO Roadies 3.0 and 4.0 were the best so far including the current season. Not that Roadies 5.0 is turning out to be a damp squib(that will never happen as they have their own ways of altering the entire notion once they feel it looks stale and insipid), it’s just that the current one is flanked with controversies and bitching to the level(K)Ekta Kapoor would surely be looking for those who got eliminated to write her next script. The vote outs this time are nothing less than a typical Saas-Bahu aur Saazish types. And that is the rationale behind the use of ‘KKKRoadies’ in title of this article. The first 5 eliminations were marred with absolute animosity. Camps are automatically made from the beginning of the show in all seasons but earlier versions especially 3 and 4 did see participants who had zeal in them unlike current roadies. There are open claims of sleeping around to save butts this time. So, to bring back the game to its unique echelon, the mastermind of the game Raghu brought back those 5 who might have been eliminated because of foul play.

These 5 were pitched against those who were present in the game. It was a fair deal as elimination was totally based on the task given instead of vote out. It was reasonable prospect given by Raghu to them to make them realize what it means to be a true Roadie.

Now coming to the second part of the title: The Sound Of Toon. The credit for this goes to our censor board. As per the regulations, all foul languages should be replaced by sound of ‘toon’ and this has been happening for eons in our TV shows. But nothing can beat Roadies when it comes to the number of total ‘toon’ in one telecasted episode. I am not saying last four seasons of Roadies had Mahatmasand Sadhvis, but current one takes the cake. Everyone starts, continues, and finishes her sentence with ek-se-badhkar-ek colorful words. Did you notice I said ‘her’? There were seven guys and six girls in the beginning and if you consider the ratios then all girls were at it compared to just three guys who ever used such words in their rap session. I for a fcuk do not give much sh!t to it but what the I cannot fathom is why the heck those bimbettes and bumboots have to resort to it making it hard to understand the crap they say(pun intended).

A short intro of the final 6:

Femme: Prabhjot Virk from Chandigarh is a 2nd year BCA student, Shambhavi Sharma is a typical PYT from Delhi and another participator Sonel Singh from Delhi is a wannabe model.

Homme: Ashu from Saharanpur runs a dhaba, Nihal is from Mysore and Vibhor Gupta from Dehradun is a B.Com student.

Okay fellas, now the natural smooth effect rejuvenating shaving gel and after shave might be an in-thing and meeting your field pal over facial and wax would be a usual matter for guys, and at the same time a girl mouthing hip-n-hep rambling and fleeting off for getting laid as another errand might be normal, however when it comes to Roadies you got to get ahead of this and show a genuine fanaticism to be a real nut case to be a true ROADIE a la Bani of season 4.