MTV Roadies (season 17)
Roadies: Real Heroes was the sixteenth season of the Indian reality show MTV Roadies, which premiered on MTV on 10 February 2019. Returning Gang Leaders Prince Narula, Nikhil Chinapa, Neha Dhupia and Raftaar were joined by new arrival Sandeep Singh. Rannvijay Singh continued to serve as a mentor and host, while Divya Agarwal and Varun Sood played the role of Roadies Insiders. Baseer Ali hosted the Voot segments, and was joined by Shruti Sinha. Auditions Episode 1 to 7. The contestants had to get at least four votes from the Gang Leaders, while Rannvijay had a  special power that could send a selected contestant straight to the journey. He also had the right to a vote and had two votes, if he wanted the contestant to proceed to the next round. Real Heroes. This season, a few contestants were already chosen to be on the journey called the Real Heroes. Culling Episode 8. Direct Entries Real Heroes : Milind, Bidhan and Bhargsethu. Watt : Nikitta, Aadil and Rachel. Total: 25 Battleground. Battleground was an online selection process in which participants were given various tasks to perform to get shortlisted. Four contestants - Arun, Chopsey, Rahul, and Rashmeet, were shortlisted  for the final battle to earn a chance on the Roadies' journey. They all entered in episode 20 where they battled in a gang task and individually for a spot in the journey. Arun won the gang task and joined while Rahul was eliminated. Rashmeet won against Nikita in individual task to go on the journey while Chopsey lost against Aadil and was eliminated. Journey - Munnar Episode 9 to 15. First Task: Rescue Your Gangleader. Before the task began, Gang Leaders had to vote to give a disadvantage to one of their opponents. With two votes, Prince had the disadvantage  of coming first in the task. Roadies had to rescue their choice of Gang Leader; the first two to be free would win the task. Second Task: Rasam Ki Rasam. Before the task, the Real Heroes were allowed to choose their Gang. The two winners of the first task competed in this task. Prince and Raftaar had to choose five roadies to compete in the Task, including their already existing Gang members. Bhargsetu chose Raftaar, Milind chose Neha and Bidhan chose Prince as their Gang Leaders. Raftaar won the task and got a chance to fill his gang. He chose  Xerxes and Aarushi to join his team. Third Task: Rollungi. Before the task, the unsafe Roadies had to divide themselves into two teams. One member from each gang would be in a cage and he/she had to roll the cage and break the pots inside. The balls would come out when the pots broke: another member would collect them and pass it to two of their team members who had tennis rackets in their hands. They will try to hit the ball to the opponent's nets. Three boys would will be wearing lungi and protecting their nets from  the other team's balls. The team that had hit more balls to the nets would win. Team A won the task and were immune. Fourth Task: Padhai Aur Pitaai. Gang Leaders had to choose one roadie from the losing team in the Third task to compete in this task, including one of their already existing Gang members. They had to solve some mathematical equations in which some hints were missing; those hints were in a pot. One of the members would go into the ring and break the pots held by skilled Kalaripayattu warriors who would be constantly moving  sticks and be blindfolded. They had to break those pots held by the Kalaripayattu artists and collect the missing objects to solve the equation. The team which solved the equations first would win. Neha and Prince won the task in first and second place respectively. As Neha won the task, she was allowed to choose one Roadie to join her gang - she chose Tara - and to send one Roadie into another gang of her choice. She chose Tarun and sent him to Sandeep's gang. As Prince came in 2nd place in the task, he had the power to choose  one Roadie into his gang. He chose Ankita. Fifth Task: Hunt to Survive. Before the task, the 12 unsafe Roadies had to divide themselves in three teams. They had to find some clues from the local market, to then solve the obstacles and collect flags. The team that collected two flags would win. Team C won the task and were immune. Sixth Task: Relay Jee Le. All the gang leaders had to choose a team of four Roadies, including at least two from their existing gang (except Sandeep who only had Tarun in his gang). Sandeep was out first, then  Raftaar, and finally Neha. In the last round, Nikhil defeated Prince. Nikhil and Prince won the task and placed 1st and 2nd place respectively. As Nikhil won the task, he received the power to complete his gang from the winners of the previous task (Team C). He chose Lakshya, Priya and Simran. As Prince came in 2nd place in the task, he received the power to complete his gang from the remaining members of Team C and the unsafe roadies. He chose Gaurav and Yukti. Following Preeti's removal, Sandeep and Neha had to fill their female roadie spots in  their gangs. Sandeep chose Sahiba and Chetna; Neha was forced to pick Pooja. After the removal of Krishna, gang leaders blocked Sohil to get into any gang as a power given to them, so Ashish went into Sandeep's gang. Rannvijay played the joker card, declared Sohil as Joker and said that he would join them in the journey: not in any gang, but with him. He would join a random gang on a task as per the rule of that specific task. Journey - Alleppey Episode 16 to 19. Seventh Task: Ghayal Dummy. Before the task began, Gang Leaders had  to vote for one Gang Leader to not compete in this task. With three votes, Nikhil did not get to compete in this task. But their group got to decide the order of performance of the gangs. The dummy in each gang would automatically be immune. Sohil, as Joker, got the chance to choose a gang to compete with. Gang Prince won the task and won immunity for the gang. Eighth Task: Swiggy Three-Course Meal. As Prince won immunity in the last task, they did not participate in this task. But they got to decide the order of performance  of the Gangs. Sandeep won the task and earned two immunities. Ninth Task: Entertainment Task. In this task, the gangs, along with their gang leaders, had to perform an act which had to include some special scenes. Divya Agrawal joined as the chief judge along with host Rannvijay. The joker had a choice to perform for any gang and he chose Raftaar's gang. Nikhil's gang performed first followed by Raftaar, Neha, Prince and Sandeep. Raftaar won the task and won immunity for the whole team, including the Joker Sohil. Tenth Task: Dingi Hopp. In the task, one member  from each gang had to perform this task. The Roadie had to collect all the flags from four dinghys which were be moving in the water in a speed boat. The Roadie had to jump from one dinghy to another and collect all the flags along with their carabiner. The team which collected more flags would win. Before the start of the task, each gang leader had the power to deduct one flag from his/her team's collected flags. Raftaar, being the winner of the last task, didn't perform in this task. Nikhil, with two disadvantages, lost two  flags from his total while the rest had one flag deducted. Gang Neha won the task and two immunities. Gang Prince came second and won one immunity. Neha gave immunities to Milind and Tara while Prince gave immunity to Bidhan. The unsafe Roadies voted out Pooja, while the safe Roadies voted out Tarun. Tarun Solanki was replaced by the joker Sohil, who joined Sandeep's gang. Journey - Wayanad Episode 20 to 23. Eleventh Task: Battle Ground Final. Rashmeet, Arun, Choupsey and Rahul entered as Battleground Finalists. In this task, the Battleground Finalists had to choose one gang to take part . That Battleground Finalist and gang had to collect rice from the local houses at the expense of some objects provided to them. The gang that came first would get full gang immunity and the Battleground Finalist that came first will get a direct entry. The Battleground Finalists that come second and third would have to compete again, and the Battleground Finalist that came fourth would be eliminated. Before the start of the task, each Battleground Finalist had to guess the price of a car from "droom.in", and the closest guess would get an advantage. Rashmeet guessed the closest and, as  the advantage, she and her gang had to collect 5kg of rice. Arun & Chopsy guessed 2nd closest and had to collect 6 kg of rice each, and Rahul and his gang had to collect 7 kg of rice. Arun won the task and got a direct entry into the Roadies Journey; Prince won full gang immunity, while Rahul came in fourth and was eliminated. Rashmeet & Chopsy came second & third and had to challenge one non-immune Roadie. Rashmeet won the task against Nikita and entered the Roadies Journey, while Aadil won the task and became immune; Choupsy was eliminated . Twelfth Task: Puzzle Hustle. In this task, the gangs had to pair up with another gang to perform the task. Neha paired up with Sandeep while Nikhil paired up with Raftaar. In the task, the teams had to solve one puzzle whose parts were hanging above on ropes and in water. They had to collect them all and solve the puzzle in the water, while one of the opposing gang leaders had a bow and arrows to knock off the rival's puzzle. Team Neha and Sandeep won the task and three immunities. Neha gave immunity to Tara and Sandeep  gave immunity to Sahiba and Ashish. Based on their choice of preference, both Battleground winners were assigned to their gangs. Arun's first preference was Prince, but since it was full he went with his second preference, Raftaar. Rashmeet, as her first preference, chose Neha and joined them. In the internal gang vote-out, Priya Singh, Chetna Joshi and Nikita Yadav were voted out. Thirteenth Task: Pol kholo. In this task, the gang leaders had to guess the answer to the question about the Roadies asked by Rannvijay. All the Roadies had three lifelines. If the gang leaders got the  answer right he/she could take one lifeline of any two Roadies of other gang. If he/she gots the answer wrong then he/she had to take one lifeline of one Roadie from his/her gang. The Roadie whose lifeline stays available until the end of the task would be immune. Roadies Auction 2.0. The roadies who were immune in the last task go directly into the auction poll. The gang leaders can buy them using tamuls. Prince came 1st in the last task and received 180 tamuls, Sandeep received 160, Raftaar received 140, Neha received 120 and Nikhil  received 100 tamuls to use as bid. The gang leader who bidded highest would take the Roadie but they could only take a maximum of two members from their previous team and were allowed no more than two boys or two girls in one gang. Journey - Madikeri Episode 23 to 26. Fourteenth Task: Gayi Maths Paani Mein. Rannvijay started the morning with a vote out where contestants had to nominate a Roadie from each gang. Adil from Nikhil, Arun from Raftaar and Sahiba from Sandeep were nominated. Prince's gang had full immunity. Milind from Neha used his real hero  band to get immunity. The nominated contestants had to choose one member from their team to perform the task, where the contestants had to collect three boxes floating in water with the help of a local small boat called 'puttu'. Every box contains iron pipes with numbers written on them. Contestants had to bring the boxes to shore and arrange them to satisfy the equation hidden in another box. The team that completed this first would win immunity. Sahiba got one disadvantage from Prince; she had to bring four boxes. Sahiba and Tara came first and won immunity for themselves . Fifteenth Task: Treasure Rumble. In this task, the Roadies had to collect plastic bottles from a dumpyard. Only two of the bottles contained a treasure map. Using the map, they had to dig and find the treasure. Then they had to protect the treasure from other team's Roadies because they could steal them. Milind and Lakshya got the treasure. In the stealing process of the task, Gaurav was injured in his hand so the task was abandoned. Neha and Nikhil received two immunities and the other gangs received one. Sohil, Milind, Lakshya, Simran, Arun, Ankita and Ashish received immunity . Rashmeet Kaur was voted out due to a tie in the counter vote-off. Sixteenth Task: Fight to Vote. In this task, the gang leaders had to choose one girl and one boy Roadie from their gang, who would be imprisoned within a cage inside water. The nominated Roadies had to compete with each other to come out of the cage. When they came out, they could vote against one Roadie. The Roadie who came out the most of five times will got immunity and the Roadie who got the most votes would be voted out immediately. Bidhan and Ankita  won immunity by escaping the cage three times. Aarushi Dutta and Rachel Gupta were eliminated in the battle. Seventeenth Task: Do the Flip. In this task, the gangs had to make alliances and perform. So Prince and Nikhil, and Neha and Raftaar made an alliance, leaving Sandeep out of this task. In the task, one member had to climb two walls simultaneously and collect tickets. The second member had to go over a pathway of wooden stumps with only two wooden planks to move forward by placing it over two adjacent wooden stumps and collecting one ticket. The last member  would be collecting cans with a magnet. The gang leader would be driving three vehicles one by one to cover the entire task area. There would be hourglasses with all the Roadies. Once the gang leader completed a round he/she could increase the time limit of one Roadie. The alliance that completed it first would receive two immunities. Alliance of Gang Neha and Gang Raftaar won and received two immunities: they were given to Milind and Arun. Eighteenth Task: Gang Knockout Task. Before this task, all the gang leaders had to name one gang whose whole gang they want  to be knocked out. With a majority of votes, Sandeep was selected. They had one last chance to challenge one gang. If they won, they would stay and the other gang would be voted out. They decided to challenge Neha. In this task, one Roadie had to roll over with an iron rod and collect the keys in the first box. Then they have to solve a puzzle and collect keys in the second box. Then they have to break one obstacle and collect the last keys. After that they have to arrange the parts of one picture which their  gang leaders already know. This was a time based task. Gang Sandeep knocked out Gang Neha. So Milind Chandwani and Sohil Singh were knocked out of the journey. Journey - Chikkamagaluru Episode 27 to 28. Nineteenth Task: Ticket to Finale. In this task, one Roadie from each gang had to perform with their gang leaders. The Roadie had to shoot bottles with a catapult in a moving car and collect points in five minutes. If he/she completed the phase in time then he/she could collect more points by cutting wires. Then he/she had to climb against a wall  and shoot flaming arrows to an assemblage of haystacks kept at different places and had to light them up. The more the roadie hits, the more points they will get. The haystacks which were not lit were not counted. More points will be given for that lit haystack that is nearer to the bottle, provided that bottle had been broken during the catapult run. Neha received the power to block one roadie to perform the task; she blocked Tara. Both Bidhan and Lakshya got the same number of points but Bidhan won the task due to the times and received  a place in the finale. Lakshya got a place in the semi final. Ashish Bhatia was eliminated for finishing last in the task. Gaurav Thukral was released from the show as his one hand was slightly fractured and he had no chance to participate in either the semi final or final. Bidhan and Lakshya got immunity, Bhargsethu used her band to get immunity and Bidhan used his band for Ankita. Only Yukti, Arun and Tara were non-immune. Tara Prasad was voted out and Sandeep was out of the game. Semi Final. Twentieth Task: Finale Countdown. Neha and Sandeep received  a chance to select one Roadie and send them to fight against Arun and Lakshya; they chose Tara, so Tara re-entered to perform the semi-final task. In this task all the ex-Roadies were invited. They had a chance to vote one Roadie to send him/her to the finale. The semi-finalists had to fight with each other and collect flags. Once they got two flags they could cancel a vote of another Roadie. Ankita won between the female Roadies while Arun won against the male Roadies and went to the finale. Final. In this task, the  Roadies had to first climb a rope ladder and reach to the top of a car which would be uplifted by crane. Then they had to collect keys and send the car's number plate to Rannvijay. Then they had to open a box with a code given by Rannvijay and press a buzzer. Then they had to rescue their gang leader and climb a pole to rescue their previous gang members. Then all of them had to come to the finish line with their car. Arun from Gang Raftaar won the task by completing it in 4m 10s . Whereas Ankita from Gang Prince completed it in 4m 53s and became the 1st runner up. Bidhan from Gang Prince completed it in 4m 55s and became the 2nd runner up. Finalists. Gang Raftaar: Arun Sharma - Winner Gang Prince: 1. Ankita Pathak - 1st runner-up 2. Bidhan Shrestha - 2nd runner-up Voting history. "The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the chart represent the gangs in which the roadies were originally in before the auction (i.e, 1 - Prince, 2 - Nikhil, 3 - Neha, 4 - Raftaar & 5 - Sandeep)."