“If you thought last year was twisted, season six of ‘MTV Hero Honda Roadies-Hell Down Under’ will make that look like a children’s film. Akshay will unleash hell in an explosive start to what promises to be the biggest season of Roadies till date,” Said Ashish Patil, general manager MTV India and senior vice-president creative and content.Bollywood star Akshay Kumar flagged off the sixth season of MTV’s adventure reality show “Roadies” by assigning the 20 participants their first task - a commando obstacle race.The episode will be aired Saturday, Jan 10 at 7p.m. on MTV.

This season the stakes are higher as the prize money has been doubled from Rs.500,000 to Rs.1 million. The participants will start their journey from New Delhi and travel to cities like Udaipur, Ahmedabad and Silvasa. This year the show will go international when the participants travel to Adelaide, Australia. They will also go to Broken Hill, Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour to name a few.

Participants

1) Samrat Kaushal: This 23 year old boy is from Punjab. He got selected in Ahmedabad. He has an Army background. He is a good singer. He has also participated in the music reality show- Fame X of Sab TV. Apart from singing he is inclined towards many physical activities like swimming, lawn tennis, athletics etc. He impressed the judges with his determined and passionate nature. He does not give up easily.

2) Devarshi Patel: He is 21 years old. He got selected from Ahmedabad. He is on Roadies because of his cool nature and great confidence. He has full confidence in himself. What ever you will say to him, nothing will shake his confidence. He is very much self obsessed. He is lost in his own world. On the auditions judges called him Darsheel of Taare Zamin Par.

3) Vicky Arora: He is 18 years old. He got selected from Ahmedabad. Last year also he auditioned for Roadies but can’t get in to it. This year he has improved a lot, even the judges observed the difference. He is determined and loves challenges.

4) Bhanu Pratap Singh: He is also18 year old boy. When he entered for auditions he was looking different but the judges changed his hair style; so when he came back he was looking very different. Judges found nothing special in him but their feeling was that he might be more interesting in the Roadies journey so they selected him in Ahmedabad.

5) Timung Longkiri: He is 25 years old. What is characteristic about him; it is his very long hairs. He in fact lifted up some loads with his hairs on the auditions. He has auditioned for roadies many times before and finally his never- say- die attitude brought him to the final list of roadies this year. He calls himself bit foolish and so wants to be on the show to give more variety to the characters of the Roadies. He got selected from Kolkatta.

6) Varisha Hawelia: She is 19 plus (as said by her). She is a student of journalism. She got selected from Kolkatta. While on auditions her answers were totally different from what she wrote on the form. She is extremely confident and isn’t scared of anything.

7) Paulami De: She is 28 years old. She is from Bengal. She is a model. She is good dancer too and while on auditions she performed on the song Kiss Me Baby from the movie- Garam masala. According to her, she is very straight forward and broad minded. She got selected in Kolkatta.

8) Gurmeet Kaur: She is 19 years old. She is basically from Chandigarh but presently she is living in Banglore. She is a model. During the auditions the judges found her too much talkative and with less brains. But she totally denies this. She is on this show to show her worth. She was selected in Banglore Auditions.

9) Nauman: He is 21 years old. He got selected in Banglore. He auditioned with his twin brother Salman. The audition phase was like Twin v/s Twin. Both brothers wanted to be together on the show but judges were clear that they will select only one out of the two. Nauman’s brother Salman was sure that he will be selected but judges selected Nauman as the Roadie.

10) Sonal Chauhan- selected from Chandigarh.

11) Tammana- selected from Chandigarh.

12) Ankur Khanduja- selected from Chandigarh.

13) Natasha Sinha- selected from Chandigarh.

14) Neha Kapoor- selected from Delhi.

15) Bobby Chopra- selected from Delhi.

16) Pradeep Singh- selected from Delhi.First Sardar Rodie.

17) Roop Bhinder- selected from Delhi.

18) Sandeep- selected from Delhi.

19) Suzanna Mukharjee- selected from Mumbai

20) Puneet Malhotra (Sufi)- selected from Mumbai.