MTV HERO HONDA ROADIES 5.0

Play up your dark side in the unknown terrains of Thailand & Malaysia on the mean machine!!

Three countries, foreign languages, unknown cultures & twisted people – ‘MTV Hero Honda Roadies' 5.0 is here and it's bigger and nastier. This year, MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0, India 's longest running and most popular adventure-reality show, is going to take you through the unpredictable terrains of Thailand & Malaysia .

‘MTV Hero Honda Roadies' is back for the 5 th consecutive season. If being mean, unfair and vindictive comes easy to you then push your way to the front of the line for the chance to travel the world on a mean machine – Hero Honda Karizma! This year the show will follow 6 girls and 7 boys as they battle their way through the India leg of the journey from Goa to Chennai and if they survive, through the International leg from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur ! But remember there are no free tickets - if you thought last year was full of surprises, get ready to be shocked this year.

Says Sandeep Dahiya, Associate Vice President, Communications and Corporate Affairs, - MTV Networks India, “ MTV Hero Honda Roadies has been the longest running adventure reality series on Indian television and among the only ones that has grown in popularity, scale and viewership over previous seasons.”

In order to make it to the show, contenders will have to undergo and pass auditions in any of the five cities – Kolkata (October 12 th ), Chandigarh (16 th October), Delhi (19 th October), Jaipur (23 rd October) and Mumbai (28 th October) where their wits, guts and attitude will be put to the test by none other than one of the most popular MTV VJs Nikhil Chinappa and the most-hated Indian judge Raghu Ram…If you thought Raghu was just mean before….you might be shaking to find out that the game has changed and that his middle name now starts with an R and ends with an E for plain RUDE!

Talking about the 5th season, Mr. Anil Dua, Sr. Vice President- Sales & Marketing, Hero Honda, adds, “We are glad to partner with MTV once again and take this unique concept to another level. MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 is going to be the ultimate test of endurance for the Roadies finalists, of course on their Hero Honda's Karizma. MTV Hero Honda Roadies provides us the ideal platform to put Karizma through grueling terrains, harsh weather conditions and most importantly impatient riders…And every time Karizma can be seen proud & upright, next to the last man/woman standing.”

Talking of his expectations from this year's contestants, Raghu Ram , judge & dictator, MTV Hero Honda Roadies, says, “I am looking for people, who have an insatiable appetite for winning and at the same time…who've got guts to stand their ground and endure whatever comes their way. So, if you do not possess any of these…please stay at home and do not waste my time.”

MTV Hero Honda Roadies made its entry in 2003 as India 's first adventure-reality show that tested the mettle of a young group traveling cross country on bikes, by exposing them to grueling situations, harsh conditions and tough competition! This one-of-a-kind adventure-reality show went on in subsequent seasons to evolve into a true adrenalin junkie's dream-come-true.

Since the 1 st season many finalists of MTV Hero Honda Roadies have found fame & fortune in the entertainment world for just being……well…'mean' - from Rannvijay, who is now one of MTV's most popular VJs to Ayushman Khurana, a well known RJ on Big FM, tough Shubhi Mehta who starred in blockbuster movie ‘Chak De' and the girl who no one liked - Bani, who made her debut in Bollywood with Himesh Reshamiya's ‘Aap Ka Suroor'.

So…get ready for MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 auditions in your city ….. Raghu RUDE Ram & Nikhil Chinappa are sharpening their claws & you better be filing your fangs to bare at the auditions…as you might just get that one in a million chance to travel the world to show everyone…just how far you are willing to go!

Being the only reality show on Indian television that has shown consistent increase in popularity as well as ratings year on year, ‘MTV Hero Honda Roadies' 4 showed an astounding 230% increase in ratings over the previous year, and made MTV the most watched channel, in that 1 hour duration, towards the final episodes, beating even the general entertainment channels.

More than mere TV ratings, the popularity of Roadies has spawned an underground cult resulting in over 1,50,000 people forming Roadies communities across various social-networking sites, scrapping & dissecting each episode and each Roadie. Last year, MTV Gear (MTV India's clothing & accessories business) also launched Roadies Cargoes (pants with too many pockets) for both men & women. The cult of Roadies also extended into music, with the launch of ‘Roadies' theme song by ‘Agnee', one of India's well known rock bands. For more information, sms “ROADIES” to 56882 or log on to www.mtvindia.com.