Himalaya Roadies | |
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Genre | |
Based on | MTV Roadies |
Directed by |
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Presented by |
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Starring |
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Theme music composer | Aashish Rana |
Opening theme | Himalaya Roadies Open Song |
Country of origin | Nepal |
Original languages |
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No. of seasons | 5 |
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Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Original release | |
Network | Himalaya TV |
Release | 3 July 2017 |
Related | |
MTV Roadies |
Himalaya Roadies is an adventure-based Nepalese reality show. It is franchise of the MTV Roadies series. The series is broadcast by the Nepalese network Himalaya TV and airs every week for an hour. The participants receive difficult tasks to complete to become a roadie. Only people of 18 and over are allowed to participate in the show. Season 4, with the theme of Season of Survival, followed the former format of MTV Roadies. Well known TV host and personality Suraj Singh Thakuri replaced Raymon Das Shrestha as the host of the show in season 5. The fifth season is titled "Power of five". In previous seasons there were four gang leaders, namely Anoop Bikram Shahi, Saman Shrestha (Extreme Athlete), Deeya Maskey and Ashish Rana, a.k.a. Laure. However, from the fifth season, actress Priyanka Karki will replace Saman Shrestha as gang leader, whereas other leaders will remain intact in their respective positions. The show was previously directed by Aman Pratap Adhikari but director and producer Simosh Sunwar has directed it from the fourth season onwards.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Plot
Himalaya Roadies is a reality show based on the popular Indian TV show MTV Roadies. The series is focused on young adults of Nepal seeking adventure. Contestants are given seemingly impossible tasks to push them to their limits. They travel to scenic locations all over Nepal, and the last one to survive is crowned a Himalaya Roadie.
Series
Season | Year | Title | Main Host | Date | No.of Episodes | Contestants | Destinations | Prize money | Winning Gang Leader | Winner | Runner-up | |
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Launch | Finale | |||||||||||
1 | 2017 | Rising Through Hell | Natasha Shah | N/A | N/A | 18 | 17 | Nepal | Rs 1,090,000 | N/A | Saman Shrestha | Animesh Shahi |
2 | 2018 | Wild Wild West | Saman Shrestha & Animesh Shahi | 18 | 13 | Ayush Shrestha | Tejaswi Basnet | |||||
3 | 2019 | Blood, Sweat and Tears | Raymond Das Shrestha | 18 | 18 | Laure | Sujan Subedi | Diwas Shrestha | ||||
4 | 2021 | Season of Survival | Raymond Das Shrestha | 18 | 18 | Anup | Nasib Tamang | Ricin Shrestha | ||||
5 | 2023 | Power of Five | Suraj Singh Thakuri | 18 | Nepal | Laure |
Season 1
Destination
- Mustang, Nepal – episodes 6–8
- Pokhara, Nepal – episodes 9–12
- Chitwan, Nepal – episodes 13–15
- Nawalparasi, Nepal – episodes 16–17
Audition
Date | Location |
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1 March | Pokhara, Nepal |
4 March | Butwal, Nepal |
6 March | Chitwan, Nepal |
9 March | Dharan, Nepal |
13–14 March | Kathmandu, Nepal |
Judges
Season | Judges | ||||
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1 | Laure | Raymon Das Shrestha | Deeya Maskey |
Season | Presenter |
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1 | Natasha Shah |
Rannvijay Singha made his special appearance in the grade finale of Himalaya Roadies season 1.
Contestants
There were originally 17 contestants at the beginning of the journey. However, in episode 6, Aashish, Faruk, Gaurav, and Neelam were eliminated after receiving the most votes from their fellow contestants.
Contestant | Hometown | Finish | Place |
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Aashish | Chandragadi | Eliminated in episode 6 | 14–18 |
Animesh | Pokhara | Runner up | 2 |
Bikash | Nepalgunj | Voted out in episode 15 | 6–7 |
Bishal | Chitwan | Voted out in episode 11 | 10 |
Faruk | Birgunj | Eliminated in episode 6 | 14–18 |
Gaurav | Biratnagar | Eliminated in episode 6 | 14–18 |
Menuka | Pokhara | Voted out in episode 9 | 13 |
Neelam | Kathmandu | Eliminated in episode 6 | 14–18 |
Prasot | Kathmandu | Voted out in episode 10 | 11–12 |
Ranjana | Kathmandu | Eliminated in episode 17 | 3–4 |
Reshma | Pokhara | Voted out in episode 12 | 9 |
Riya | Kathmandu |
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6–7 |
Rupam | Janakpur | Voted out in episode 10 | 11–12 |
Saman | Dharan | Winner | 1 |
Sonangkita | Butwal | Voted out in episode 14 | 8 |
Sudit | Kathmandu |
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3–4 |
Suzana | Pokhara | Voted out in episode 16 | 5 |
Roadies' presence
Episodes 1 to 5 were the audition round and from episode 6 onwards, the competition officially started.
Key | Contestant won the competition | Contestant entered as a wild card entry | Contestant was voted out of the competition by other roadies | Contestant forfeited the competition due to illness |
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Roadie | ep 6 | ep 7 | ep 8 | ep 9 | ep 10 | ep 11 | ep 12 | ep 13 | ep 14 | ep 15 | ep 16 | ep 17 | ep 18 |
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Saman Shrestha | |||||||||||||
Animesh Shahi | |||||||||||||
Ranjana Bhattarai | |||||||||||||
Sudit Shrestha | |||||||||||||
Suzana Shrestha | |||||||||||||
Bikash Thapa | |||||||||||||
Riya Swar | |||||||||||||
Sonangkita Adhikari | |||||||||||||
Gaurav Khatiwada | |||||||||||||
Prasot Kandel | |||||||||||||
Reshma Nhuchhen Pradhan | |||||||||||||
Bishal Koirala | |||||||||||||
Rupam Mishra | |||||||||||||
Menuka Tamang | |||||||||||||
Aashish Shrestha | |||||||||||||
Seikh Farukh Miya | |||||||||||||
Neelam Khadka | |||||||||||||
= indicates that Roadie was present in the episode.
= indicates that Roadie was absent in the episode.
= indicates that Roadie was present in the episode but as a part of the audience for watching the Finale rather than as a contestant for the title.
Season 2
Destination
- Mustang, Nepal – episodes 6–8
- Pokhara, Nepal – episodes 9–12
- Chitwan, Nepal – episode 13–15
- Nawalparasi, Nepal – episodes 16–17
Audition
Date | Location |
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30 July | Chitwan, Nepal |
6 August | Butwal, Nepal |
13 August | Pokhara, Nepal |
20 August | Dharan, Nepal |
27 August | Kathmandu, Nepal |
Judges
Season | Judges | ||||
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1 | Laure | Raymon Das Shrestha | Deeya Maskey |
Season | Presenters | |
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1 | Saman Shrestha and Animesh Shahi |
Actor Karma and Nepali boxing champion Maxx were seen in the journey round of Himalaya Roadies season 2.
Contestants
Contestant | Hometown | Finish | Place |
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Anish Baniya | Pokhara | 5th | Eliminated |
Ashmita Sunar | Kathmandu | 9th | Eliminated |
Ayush Shrestha | Butwal | 1st | Winner |
Barsha Pun | Butwal | 9th | Eliminated |
Men Kumari Ghale | Chitwan | 4th | Wildcard entry, eliminated |
Milan Khadka | Butwal | 7th | Eliminated |
Pribir Ghale | Pokhara | 3rd | Finalist |
Rabin Rai | Itahari | 6th | Eliminated |
Richa Shah | Kathmandu | 8th | Eliminated |
Sagar Rijal | Biratnagar | 11th | Came as wildcard entry but was eliminated |
Srijan Bhattarai | Kathmandu | 10th | Eliminated |
Subha Sharma | Chitwan | 12th | Ejected due to fight with crew |
Tejaswi Basnet | Kathmandu | 2nd | Wildcard entry, finalist |
Roadies' presence
Episodes 1 to 5 were the audition round and from episode 6 onwards, the competition officially started.
Key | Contestant won the competition | Contestant entered as a wild card entry | Contestant was voted out of the competition by other roadies | Contestant forfeited the competition due to illness |
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Contestant | Hometown | Episodes | Position | |||||||||||
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
Ayush Shrestha | Butwal | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner | Winner |
Tejaswi Basnet | Kathmandu | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | Wild Card | Safe | Bottom 2 | Immune | Safe | Safe | Runner Up | 2nd Place | ||
Pribir Ghale | Pokhara | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 2 | Safe | Bottom 2 | Eliminated | 3rd Place |
Men Kumari Ghale | Chitwan | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Wild Card | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 2 | Eliminated | 4th Place | |
Anish Baniya | Pokhara | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 5th Place | ||
Rabin Rai | Itahari | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 6th Place | |||
Milan Khadka | Butwal | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Bottom 2 | Eliminated | 7th Place | ||||
Sagar Rijal | Biratnagar | Safe | Eliminated | Wild Card | Eliminated | 11th Place | ||||||||
Richa Shah | Kathmandu | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Eliminated | 8th Place | |||||||
Ashmita Sunar | Kathmandu | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Eliminated | 9th Place/10th Place | ||||||||
Barsha Pun | Butwal | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 9th Place/10th Place | ||||||||
Srijan Bhattarai | Kathmandu | Safe | Bottom 2 | Eliminated | 10th Place | |||||||||
Subha Sharma | Chitwan | Ejected | 12th Place | |||||||||||
Notes:
- Indicates the contestant won the task that week.
- Indicates the contestant was safe that week.
- Indicates the contestant was immune that week.
- Indicates the contestant was in danger that week.
- Indicates the contestant was eliminated that week.
- The contestant quit the competition.
- Indicates the contestant wild card entry in the competition.
- Indicates the contestant was eliminated outside vote-out that week.
- Real Heroes used their hero immunity.
- Indicates the contestant is the runner up.
- Indicates the contestant won the competition.
= indicates that Roadie was present in the episode.
= indicates that Roadie was absent in the episode.
= indicates that Roadie was present in the episode but as part of the audience for watching the Finale rather than as a contestant for the title.
Season 3
Destination
- Mustang, Nepal – episodes 6–8
- Pokhara, Nepal – episodes 9–12
- Chitwan, Nepal – episodes 13–15
- Nawalparasi, Nepal – episodes 16–17
Audition
Date | Location |
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30 July | Chitwan, Nepal |
6 August | Butwal, Nepal |
13 August | Pokhara, Nepal |
20 August | Dharan, Nepal |
27 August | Kathmandu, Nepal |
Judges
Season | Gang leaders | ||||
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1 | Laure | Diya Maskey | Saman Shrestha | Anoop Bikram Shahi |
Season | Presenter | |
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1 | Raymond Das Shrestha |
The finalists from MTV Roadies and real hero Bidhan Shrestha and another real hero from MTV Roadies, Bhargsetu, were present in the culling round of this season. Similarly, Priyanka Karki was also seen in three episodes of Himalaya Roadies where she was present with some game-changing superpowers and twists.
Contestants
Contestant | Hometown | Episodes | Position | |||||||||||
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
Sujan Subedi | Pokhara | Task Winner | Task Winner | Immune | Task Winner | Saved | Safe | Task Winner | Immune | Immune | Safe | Saved | Winner | Winner |
Diwas Shrestha | Kathmandu | Immune | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Task Winner | Task Winner | Task Winner | Task Winner | Runner Up | 2nd Place |
Satish Raj Bhandari | Kathmandu | Immune | Safe | Immune | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 3rd/4th Place | |
Pijja Maharjan | Kathmandu | Wild Card | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 3rd/4th Place | |||||
Ram Chandra KC | Nepalgunj | Task Winner | Task Winner | Safe | Task Winner | Safe | Safe | Task Winner | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 5th Place | ||
Ashish Gurung | Syangja | Safe | Safe | Immune | Safe | Saved | Task Winner | Bottom 3 | Immune | Eliminated | 6th / 9th Place | |||
Gazi Mohammad Masood | Nepalgunj | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Task Winner | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 6th / 9th Place | |||
Manisha Bishwokarma | Dharan | Safe | Safe | Bottom 4 | Saved | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 6th / 9th Place | |||
Pratima Sen | Kathmandu | Safe | Safe | Bottom 4 | Safe | Safe | Task Winner | Safe | Eliminated | 9th / 10th Place | ||||
Sagar Shahi | Kathmandu | Task Winner | Task Winner | Safe | Task Winner | Safe | Safe | Task Winner | Eliminated | 9th / 10th Place | ||||
Sanju Karki | Kathmandu | Wild Card | Safe | Eliminated | 11th / 12th Place | |||||||||
Shreya Maharjan | Pokhara | Safe | Safe | Task Winner | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 11th / 12th Place | |||||
Vidhya Gurung | Pokhara | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 13th Place | ||||||
Joshika Shrestha | Dharan | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 14th / 15th Place | ||||||||
Sonika Prajapati | Kathmandu | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | 14th / 15th Place | ||||||||
Avish Pokharel | Dharan | Bottom 2 | Safe | Eliminated | 16th / 17th Place | |||||||||
Dikshya Lamichhane | Lumbini | Task Winner | Task Winner | Eliminated | 16th / 17th Place | |||||||||
Bicky Gurung | Pokhara | Eliminated | 18th Place | |||||||||||
Team colours:
- Team Saman
- Team Diya
- Team Anoop
- Team Laure
Notes:
- Indicates the contestant won the task that week.
- Indicates the contestant was safe that week.
- Indicates the contestant was immune that week.
- Indicates the contestant was in danger that week.
- Indicates the contestant was eliminated that week.
- The contestant quit the competition.
- Indicates the contestant wild card entry in the competition.
- Indicates the contestant was eliminated outside vote-out that week.
- Real Heroes used their hero immunity.
- Indicates the contestant is the runner up.
- Indicates the contestant won the competition.
Season 4
Destination
Audition
Date | Location |
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13 December 2021 | Kathmandu, Nepal |
19 December 2021 | Chitwan, Nepal |
26 December 2021 | Dharan, Nepal |
3 January 2022 | Pokhara, Nepal |
10 January 2022 | Nepalgunj, Nepal |
Judges
Season | Gang leaders | ||||
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1 | Laure (rap artist) | Diya Maskey | Saman Shrestha | Anoop Bikram Shahi |
Season | Presenter | |
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1 | Raymond Das Shrestha |
Like other seasons of the show, this season also saw some famous Nepali faces. Vten was seen in the audition round, whereas Nischal Basnet and winner of season 3, Sujan Subedi, were seen in the finale to boost the contestants' energy.
Contestants
Contestant | Hometown | Episodes | Position | |||||||||||
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
Naseeb Tamang | Sikkim | Winner | Winner | |||||||||||
Ricin Shrestha | Butwal | Eliminated | 2nd Place | |||||||||||
Sagar Lama | Pokhara | Eliminated | 3rd Place | |||||||||||
Dilip Nepali | Chitwan | Eliminated | 4th Place | |||||||||||
Bibesh Shrestha | Tansen | Eliminated | 5th Place | |||||||||||
Sandesh Sampang Rai | Dharan | Eliminated | 6th/7th/8thPlace | |||||||||||
Pranisha Thapa Magar | Rupandehi | Eliminated | 6th/7th/8th Place | |||||||||||
Suraj Bhattarai | Dharan | Eliminated | 6th/7th/8th Place | |||||||||||
Sita tamang | Kathmandu | Eliminated | 9th/10th Place | |||||||||||
Shivaraj Tamang | Kathmandu | Eliminated | 9th/10th Place | |||||||||||
Anusha Raut | Pokhara | Eliminated | 11th Place | |||||||||||
Ajay Kumar shah | Pokhara | Eliminated | 12th Place | |||||||||||
Pukar kc | Pokhara | Eliminated | 13th/14th Place | |||||||||||
Rajesh Gaiju | Pokhara | Eliminated | 13th/14th Place | |||||||||||
Sagar Bc | Pokhara | Eliminated | 15th Place | |||||||||||
Nilam thapa | Pokhara | Eliminated | 16/17th Place | |||||||||||
urmila basnet | Pokhara | Eliminated | 16th/17th Place |
References
- ↑ "Roadies – Himalaya TV". himalayatv.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Himalaya Roadies roars off". Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Himalaya Roadies rumbles into Butwal". Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Himalaya Roadies starts today". Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Nepali Roadies: Here's the director's cut – OnlineKhabar". Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Nepali director at ASSITEJ summit". Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Love is in the air on Renault MTV Roadies Rising – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ↑ "Himalaya Roadies: From Angels To Demons | Features | Living". living.com.np. Retrieved 21 July 2017.