MTV Roadies Shortcut To Hell is the eighth season of MTV Roadies, a reality television show aired on MTV India. The season 8 of roadies was also known as "Shortcut To Hell" as the second half of the season took place in Brazil. The audition episodes were aired from 22 January 2011 and the journey episodes began airing on 5 March 2011. Its auditions were held in various cities of India, like Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Delhi and Pune. The audition is done by Raghu Ram, Rajiv Laxman and Rannvijay Singh. The title was won by Aanchal Khurana from Delhi.
Avtar Nischal, Suchit Vikram Singh, and Mohit Saggar returned as All-Stars for Roadies X - Battle for Glory. Nischal withdrew in mid-season, Singh finished in 10th place and Saggar eventually placed as 2nd Runner-up.
Destination
Mtv Roadies 8 was held halfway in India and the other half was continued in Sao Paulo, Brazil. However, The series's Finale concluded in India. The finale included Ex- Roadies as well who have been previously Voted out of the show.
Roadies' selection
Overall Count :
Contestants
There were thirteen contestants overall.
The Total Votes is the number of votes a roadie has received during Vote-outs where the roadie is eligible to be eliminated from the game. It does not include the votes received during the finale where the finalists are voted for the win.
Episode 1: 05-Mar-2011
All the thirteen contestants arrived in Bangalore and met each other. Renee and Prachi got into an argument. Rannvijay then entered and asked a few questions. Later he asked them to select the biggest loser amongst them. Suraj got selected. Later he was asked to elect a leader. Finally Suraj selected Dev.
The roadies then got a scroll to put on their dancing shoes. That night they partied and after a photo shoot with Rannvijay, they realized that they are partying in the vote-out location, where Raghu & Rajeev were also present. Everyone wrote a guy's & a girl's name. They voted like this:
Suchit - Suraj & Prachi
Renee - Suraj & Prachi
Anchal - Mohit & Prachi
Prachi - Suraj & Renee
Mohit - Rahul & Prachi
Suraj - Suchit & Anchal
Avtar - Mohit & Chandni
Rahul - Avtar & Anchal
Chandni - Avtar & Renee
Pooja - Rahul & Renee
Anamika - Avtar & Anchal
Vibhor - Mohit & Prachi
Dev - Rahul & Chandni
Prachi got 5 votes & there was a tie between Avtar, Suraj, Mohit & Rahul. A wild-card draw voted Avtar voted out. Then Raghu announced that they were actually immune and they will select three roadies each to compete and one of the selected six will be voted out in the next episode.
Episode 2: 12-Mar-2011
In this episode Avtar chose Suchit, Mohit and Rahul to compete in the rock climbing immunity task. Also Renee, Anchal and Chandni were selected by Prachi to compete in the same task. Rahul and Mohit couldn't complete the challenge. Only Suchit completed the challenge so he became immune. In girls none could complete the challenge but Chandni was better than Anchal in the competition so she became immune too. Prachi had a big fight with Avtar. Then finally on vote out Rahul got voted out. Dev and Avtar were revealed to be plotting against all others by staging a fight. Roadie voted out - Rahul (by 6 votes)
Episode 3: 19-Mar-2011
The roadies went to Davangere for their next tasks.
Money Task
The Roadies were divided into three groups of 4. One in each team was asked not to compete. So, Dev, Pooja & Anchal were left out. Of the rest, one was supposed to find some work for the other to do in exchange for some food items. The third had to make good deals on SnapDeal.com based on the items they collect. Suraj (Worker), Avtar (Collector) and Mohit (Seller) were the only qualified team. The others were disqualified. Avtar, Suraj and Mohit were able to collect 8,400.
Immunity Task
The Roadies were asked to pair-up (Girl-Boy) with the one who they hated. The girls were asked questions and if they got it wrong, the partner (boy) will get a bikini wax (Brazilian wax). Dev backed out, so Renee could not compete. After many rounds Anamika-Vibhor won immunity.
Roadie voted out - Avtar (by 8 votes)
Episode 4: 26-Mar-2011
For the next tasks, Roadies travelled to Belgaum. Dev was in trouble due to Avtar’s revelation at the previous vote-out. Pooja was made captain.