MTV Roadies - Is it at all a competition??

I was not a regular follower of MTV roadies, at least not for the first five editions. I saw only a few of the episodes and yes I liked it. Watching the contestants performing different tasks was a great experience, as all the tasks are used to be weird and which in our daily life we don’t do. So altogether it had a great impact on me and I was really excited about Roadies 6.0.

Once the audition started, I never missed a single episode. Raghu and Rajiv have made the lives of the participants miserable. It’s very surprising that on a national TV channel two hosts were using slangs and which made the participants too answering with bad words. I know that they were there to test the toughness of the contestants but is it the way to test the toughness? The show is to find a person who is a fighter and can survive in any circumstances. But for me it was like, they were looking for guys who can humiliate others. The more they can use slangs and spoil others, the more the TRP will go up. I have seen fear factor and I believe, that is a perfect show to find out a fighter, find out the strong and bold character. I like performing adventurous things in my life. So if I get a chance to enter into any kind of show where I can compete with others, I will be glad. But if the show is MTV Roadies then I must say I will not take part in it. I can’t imagine in my wildest ever dream also that in a TV channel I am shouting on someone using some bad words delicately selected from dictionary and my parents and other family members are sitting in the drawing room and watching that. When I see the behavior of the participants and their way of speaking, their gesture, I really get confused, doubts come on my mind that are they from good families with good culture? Nauman, Palak, Sufi, Sandeep, Pradeep, Bobby, Devarshi, Tamanna, Samrat everybody was on same page. Out of all the participants I found Kiri, Natasha, Roop, Poulami a bit decent. Even Sufi, I only saw him bursting out in the second last episode.

If you talk about the rules of the show then also I have to say that there is no such rules, they dynamically change the rule as per the need of show. They always set a double meaning environment. I remember the episode in which Devarshi got out. Raghu and Rajiv said that out of the two teams they need to decide a member who will be directly eliminated. Now Devarshi thought it was a trick to identify the captain in the team, so he nominated himself. At the end of the event Devarshi was thrown out of the show as he was selected, where as in the other hand Bobby got the immunity as she was not self nominated but selected by the team. If you say this is right and Raghu did exactly what he said before. He sticked to his words then I will ask you to recall the episode where WWE wrestler came into the picture. The immune participants Natasha, Samrat and Nauman were asked to fight with wrestlers to win the Karizma and if they lose the challenge they will lose the immunity also. To stay in the competition Nauman and Natasha decided to stay away from the challenge and secure their immunity. But all of a sudden rules got changed. End of that challenge Raghu said that if they were ready to fight and lost the fight also they won’t be losing the immunity. It was just said to check if they have guts or not. From this point there double meaning situation creation is pretty clear.

Again when they reached Australia, from nowhere some participants came back to the show with no proper reason and got their chance to win it again. Still MTV, Raghu, Ranvijay everybody will keep saying that they don’t do any plotting, it is a fair game. What do you think?

But after all of these, I still watch this show and this is one of my favorite shows. You guys now may think that after having so many disliking why the show is my favorite show. Am I also showing double standards? Actually it is not. I like the show because it is entertaining. I don’t start watching the show keeping in mind that the best performer will win. I watch it as it has drama, it has adventure, it has comedy. It is a complete package of entertainment not a competition.