MTV Roadies 4 is the fourth season of reality game show MTV Roadies that aired on MTV India from 2006–2007. Hosted by MTV VJ Rannvijay, the show features 13 contestants who ride Hero Honda Karizma bikes on a journey where they endure "sun, snow, rain and physical and mental stress, while complex challenges are thrown at them from every direction." In keeping with the reality contest format, contestants at each episode can be eliminated from the game with a vote out. At the final destination, Gangtok, the winner is awarded a cash prize of up to 500,000 Indian rupees ( 5,00,000). Bollywood actor Gulshan Grover makes appearances in the season to introduce twists into the game. The show's winner was Anthony Yeh.
Format
The show is loosely inspired by the MTV-USA reality show Road Rules which started in 1995.
Contestants
Roadies auditions were held in Delhi, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Mumbai and, for the first time, Lucknow. A total of 13 Roadies, seven men and six women, were chosen. They are: Poonam Thacker Anthony Yeh Raj Roy Rishabh Dhir Swati Ahuja Shaleen Malhotra Sonam Gupta Roopali Anand Ankit Mohan Gurbani "Bani" Judge Vishal Karwal Sahil Anand Amandeep "Oorja" Narang
Journey
Episode 1
The Roadies start at the south at the Travancore Heritage Resort in Kerala. Their first immunity task is to find their Karizma bikes. However, Grover introduces a twist: he wants to eliminate a Roadie right away. Roadie voted out: Oorja
Episode 2
The Roadies are divided into two teams: Chandigarh and Delhi. Shaleen Malhotra and Gurbani "Bani" Judge have a big fight. Gurbani "Bani" Judge becomes a target in the Roadies eyes, especially the women. Parul Shahi, the winner of season 3, tells the Roadies the route to Cochin. The immunity task is a snake boat race. The Delhi team loses. Gurbani "Bani" Judge survives the vote out. Roadie voted out: Ankit.
Episode 3
The Roadies participate in a bull run task, which team Chandigarh wins. Delhi votes out Shaleen Malhotra, which leaves their group to all women. Grover appears and informs the Roadies that there is a spy among them who could betray his or her team. Roadie voted out: Shaleen Malhotra
Episode 4
The Roadies travel north to Jodhpur. They participate in a sawal-jawab round, and a money task in Mewar. The teams are redistributed slightly by gender so that all the women are on the Delhi team; they then face an immunity task. The women win the task. Vishal is voted out after he voices his opinion that more women need to go. The teams are almost even in size, however, the spy contestant is still unknown. Some of the Roadies suspect Rishabh may be the spy. Roadie voted out: Vishal Karwal
Episode 5
The Roadies ride all day from Jodhpur to Pushkar. They have a nice dinner when Rannvijay enters and informs them that Grover has an important message: they must vote out the spy or else the spy will win all the money. The Roadies do a vote out. Rannvijay informs them that the vote was unanimous, which stuns everyone, but then he breaks the suspense and says that he was joking. At night, Roopali and Gurbani "Bani" Judge have a four-letter vocal battle over a bed sharing issue.
The next day, the Roadies are given a money task where they have to carry people from one place to another using a cart, however, the condition is that the age of the person carried must exceed the age of the team members combined. After completing the task, Rannvijay says Grover is calling for another vote out, but reminds them that the spy rule from yesterday still applies. The Roadies vote out Gurbani "Bani" Judge. Grover reveals that there is no spy in the Roadies and that it was all a ruse. However, the twist is that Gurbani "Bani" Judge stays, and her vote will dictate who would be eliminated. Bani reveals that she voted out Rishabh. Roadie voted out: Rishabh
Episode 6
Gurbani "Bani" Judge tries to figure out who betrayed her in the previous episode's vote out; she gets into arguments with Sonam and Raj. She later tries to befriend the girls.
The following day, the Roadies, under their captain Anthony, travel from Pushkar to Jaipur, and stay at a resort. They are called out to dress in swimsuits for a money task. Rannvijay presents a box draped with a white cloth, and has Anthony assign a man and a woman to be helpers. The money task is to form teams of two, cover their bodies with honey, and roll around in the box, whose contents turn out to be full of currency notes. The notes that stick are added to their bank. The Roadies complete the task and win 32,500, which brings their total so far to 1,93,500.