Roadies Production Team finally reached the place they started their journey from after travelling across the country in search for Roadies. Yes, they reached the city that never sleeps – Mumbai. With 18 Roadies already selected out of the needed 20, Mumbai contestants had things tougher with slimmer chances of getting selected.

After all the hooliganism the production team witnessed in Delhi Auditions, they wanted to play it safe. Auditions in Mumbai were cancelled and once again they chose the online route to shortlist the prospective Roadies.

Easier said than done!! The team had to literally skim through 25000 odd entries to narrow down the list to hundred contestants. All these people went through a group discussion round and only 12 people got a chance to have a face to face conversation with Raghu and Rajiv, the infamous twin tormentors. Finally, just 2 people became the coveted Roadies. If you aren’t already boggled by all these numbers, let us take this opportunity to state another fact. Cracking roadies’ auditions is perhaps tougher than cracking the engineering or management entrance exams!!

Raghu and Rajiv had sky-high expectations from Mumbaikars who are daring, glamorous, smart and interesting. The city did not disappoint and the auditions were high on both drama and entertainment quotient. Mumbai auditions undoubtedly scored over the other cities.

Sufi Malhotra was interviewed twice (read the next article to know all the details of his melodramatic interview and Phoenix-like rise from ashes).

Sunny Thakur who was just not funny and was declared a ‘gay’ because of his nicely waxed body. The king of all was Ashish, the guy who had relentlessly prepared for two long years to become a Roadie. Will someone please tell him that all preparation fails in such a show? Here you get selected for who you are and not for portraying someone whom you want yourself to be. Bani, nicely put it, that he will now have to prepare for one more year to be a Roadie!! Multilingual Suzzanna Mukherjee was an instant hit with the judges.

Suzzanna and Sufi were clear winners in today’s auditions and this completes the mammoth size task of finding the Roadies.

Here’s another fairy tale story of a small town girl’s claim to fame. One desire changed her life and rest as they say is history. Roop Bhinder, till recently was a normal college going girl with limited exposure miles away from big bad city and now she is a ROADIE!! Life, indeed, is a bundle of surprises.

Success didn’t come easy to her; let’s clarify before all the sadists start blaming their luck. Roop earned it by first having the courage to dream about being a roadie putting behind all her small-town reservations and using all the resources at her quick disposal. She used Roadies battleground, an online game to make it to the real show. From screaming in the library, applying cow dung on her face, acting like a joker and asking people to kiss her, she has done it all. She was the first runner up in the Roadies Battleground. Aniket, who was nicely shown the door in Bengaluru audition was the winner.

Roop, true to her name is a pretty girl with a dazzling smile as Raghu complimented when she entered the interview room. She was calm and composed in the interview and the twin brothers were also surprisingly too sweet to be true in her case. I strongly think, girls win half the battle in the auditions with their good looks!!

Roop came across as a simple grounded girl with her values well in place. She stated clearly that she could go to any extent to win the show as long as her morals do not go for a toss. She completely refused to hook up with any guy in the show as a survival tactic. However, she had no issues with some white lies to save herself from elimination. Judges disagreed with her queer definitions of moral and immoral things in life. Raghu and Rajiv agreed that Roop would certainly fight another battle in the show apart from all the conspiracies and mind games and it would be a Moral Battle. There is a very thin and confusing line she has herself drawn between good and bad. They can already foresee the situations in which she will face this moral dilemma.

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All those people who thought that only cute girls get the easy ticket to the adventure show, here is the cute guy to prove all such theories wrong or rather extend it to the other gender as well. Sandeep Singh is the second Delhi boy to get the chance of becoming a Roadie in the sixth season.

Sandeep Singh is a tall 19 year old guy with a very sweet smile. Even Raghu and Rajiv were smitten by his girlish, baby face! They remained nice to him throughout the interview and blamed it on his sweetie pie looks which forbade them from being rude.

Raghu was especially very impressed to know that this lad knew how to respect women and under no circumstances would use his masculine strength to physically hurt them. There was a question in the form which asked the people one thing they would refrain from doing as a task in the Roadies journey. Sandeep clearly mentioned that he would not hit any girl whatsoever even if that meant losing the final battle. Raghu tried to put him into moral dilemma but he stuck to his words. This helped him earn some brownie points from the judges for whom respect for women is paramount (Here’s a cheat code for all future Roadies aspirants Sandeep, you played your cards well!

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“The craze, madness and repo of being a Roadie, Makes me feel even I wannabe a Roadie“.

These words worked wonders for someone and guess what now she is a Roadie. Bobby Chopra is the next hell mate on the show for all the uninitiated.

Bobby Chopra is a 20 year old sweet, cute and funny girl with an ever smiling face. She is currently pursuing graduation through correspondence and as she mentioned in her now almost golden words a wannabe Roadie.

Her interview was short, simple and amusing to watch just like her. It mainly centered around the things she had written on her form. Raghu and Rajiv asked her to explain the strange and non-serious answers she had written in the form. At least 2-3 answers in the form had a mention of Raghu Sir (that’s how she addressed him in the interview!!).Bobby is either in complete awe or obsessed with bald Raghu.

According to Bobby, all the things that she has done in life are crazy. Her biggest weakness is that she does not have the ability to judge people correctly. I wonder how she will survive in the show where there is no mercy for sweet and simple people. She had written a very funny answer for the question on why she should be selected. She wrote that her sole aim was to fight with other Roadies. This answer infuriated the brothers and that was the turning point in the interview.

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