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Left with nothing but emotion!

// February 10th, 2010 // Comments Off // Episodes

This week, the contestants were asked to carry their partners on a wheel barrow above a hill. The rules were pretty simple. They were not allowed to run. And they can switch places if they feel tired. All 3 couples raced but Monika and Vikas won the task. Vikas just had one strategy and that was just to stay ahead and take short breaks to just catch his breath as Arjun was closing by.

Now Vikas and Monika had the chance to challenge the king and queen for their turn on the throne.

Pooja and Arjun were having a huge argument and Pooja was not happy about Arjun talking with other girls and spending more time with them.

For the Challenger task, the girls were put in a freezer room with stinking fishes for a while and their partners will have to keep them warm just by themselves without using a shawl or anything else. Once Monika and Niharika spent some time in there, Vikas and Ashish ran in to keep their respective girls warm. They rubbed their girls on hands and legs to keep them warm and when the time was up, they had to leave the room.

The body temperature of the girls was tested and Niharika had a temperature of 95.8 and Monika had 95.4. The girl with warmer body wins the challenge and hence Niharika and Ashish won the challenge and retained their throne. Vikas was very unhappy with the results and felt that he had no chance of victory with Monika as his partner.

Later that day, Mahip and Arjun were on the dumping ground. When Niharika had to choose between Arjun and Mahip, she chose Mahip to stay and Arjun was dumped from the show after a very emotional elimination session.

Watch the next episode to see the splitsvillians salsa their way to challenge the king and the queen.

Episode 7 Teaser

// January 29th, 2010 // Comments Off // Episodes, Videos

Friends become enemies

// January 28th, 2010 // Comments Off // Episodes

What battle is in store for the Splitsvillans this week?

In the midst of the war of love, the couples needed to impress the King and Queen with their cooKing skills! Then again, before the challenge began the couples were given the chance to change partners (excluding the King and Queen). Priya and Raj, Monica and Vikas, Arjun and Pooja, Niharika and Aashish finally ended up together. The couples were not allowed to cook something of their own choice – the menu of the day was Thai crab curry and Thai Fried noodles.

Sounds simple? Where’s the catch, you ask? The catch was that they should use not 4, but just 3 hands and finish cooKing in 1 hour. Each dish was presented to the King and Queen without them knowing who prepared what.

All the couples scored between 7 and 11, the King and Queen did not die of food poisoning and the winners were Vikas and Monika. They got a chance to challenge the King and Queen.

The next challenge was a classic – saving the damsel in distress!

In this challenge, the girls were in a pit filled with creepy-crawly snakes, while the boys had to rescue them by pulling them out with a rope. The couples managing to get out of the snake pit the fastest wins the task and gets the power to dump. This was a true struggle – Mahip and Pavithra were the 1st to start. After almost giving up, Mahip successfully pulled her out.

Later, the ever enthusiastic Vikas pulled on the rope so fast that Monica couldn’t hold on to the rope and she fell down numerous times. Vikas could not save his damsel in distress and Monica ended up bruised and battered! Vikas lost his patience and the challenge.

Mahip and Riya got to relax in a huge pool and discuss who should be chucked out of the villa in the dumping ground.

Later, in the dumping ground the Queen chose to chuck Raj out because Raj has been lying and scheming just to stay in the game. The cad!

The King chose Riya to leave the show, and despite her loud rants that she had saved Mahip a lot of times and that he had betrayed their friendship, she had no choice but to leave.

Finally when the King asked if he can change his decision, Nikhil moved in and stated that the King can change his mind – he is the King after all!
Then comes a twist in the tale; Nikhil says that ONLY ONE of them will be leaving the Villa and the six contestants could choose who gets saved. The decision was unanimous, and Riya stayed. Riya was close friends with Mahip and Niharika, but when the stakes are high, we all know that the best of friends can turn into enemies!

The fight for the throne

// January 19th, 2010 // Comments Off // Episodes

As we already saw, Vikas is extremely disappointed with Kriti’s elimination last week. The contestants were informed about their task for the day – A ‘Royal Rumble’ round where boys challenge boys and girls compete against girls.

Mahip and Niharika are the current King and queen as we all know. The task is that the boys will have to throw the boys out and girls push out the girls. The last man and woman standing win the task.

Mahip and Niharika had to choose 1 boy and girl to get to the safe zone. And the ones safe do not get to compete in the task and hence cannot be the king and queen. Clever huh?

Niharika saved Vikas but he refused to be safe. Now that surprised the queen! And therefore all the boys and to compete and no one was safe. Mahip chose Pooja to be safe and safe she was. The girls fight began first and Monika was pushed outside the ring first and then followed by Riya. Riya was thrown out by both Pavitra and Nirmal!

And it wasn’t too late after that Nirmal was thrown out too. Pavithra won the task and got to challenge the queen.

Now it was the boys’ turn. The first one to go out was Arjun. Vikas was hell bent on kicking Raman out and to never let him become the king; even if it cost him his place on the show. But the tables turned & both Vikas and Raman were out!

And then Raj was pushed out of the ring and this made Ashish win the task and challenge the king.

Later Pavitra challenged and threw Niharika off the ring and the throne! And so did Mahip to Ashish. The new king and the queen are Mahip and Pavitra.

And after a dramatic elimination round Nirmal and Ramanjot were dumped from the show. But Raman and Nirmal left the show in a kind of positive attitude and nothing to regret.

But is that how they really felt?

Episode 4 – The new king and queen arise

// January 12th, 2010 // Comments Off // Episodes

With only 7 couples standing the choice was given for the couples to change partners.

Two of the women were not happy with their current partners – Monica and Niharika exchanged their men. Now Niharika and Mahip (real life couples) are back to being together.

This 1st challenge for the couples was to perform and win at the Thai dance competition in order to become the challengers and challenge the current King and Queen. The couples were given 2 hours of dance training from Thai Instructors. I wonder which couple has a pair of left feet…
Many of the couples during the rehearsal session improvised on the steps and tried to create new ones to outperform the other couple. During the practice session, a tiff was in the air between Pavitra and Sufzal because they couldn’t remember the steps and that was leading to some harsh statements. They looked as if they were not well prepared for the competition at all.

The couples chose their costumes and got ready with their makeup. The competition began and the couples came out on stage one by one and performed their dances. Mahip and Niharika stole the show as they scored the highest and thereby earned their right to battle the King and Queen.

Pavitra was showing the signs of jealousy and insecurity and Vikas gets into a fit!

A new day dawns and the couples all head down to beach where MTV VJ Nihkil is waiting for them with their task for the day.

The task was for the men to carry the girls on their shoulders blindfolded perform the task. All the girls and boys need to either ally themselves either with the King and Queen or the challengers and whichever team wins the task of the day remain, and so are its allied members.

The 2 couples started the task -

Eat - Pineapple chopsuey
Drink – Love you long time ( find the shack that serves the drink )
Shop – Find a jokers hat

They had to Eat, Drink and Shop all in 100 Baht.

The tasks was hard especially since they had a language barrier with the Thai locals, plus the men’s shoulder were aching and taking directions from their women wasn’t a lot of fun either

To everyone’s surprise Mahip and Niharika won the title of King and Queen especially since they were very close to giving up the task.

Kriti was having a talk with everyone on the wining team requesting them to vote for her!

All the contestants who had allied with Arjun and Pooja went straight to the dumping ground. That put Vikas, Riya, Kirti, Ashish, Sufzal and Nirmal on the other’s mercy.

In the elimination ground Kritiwas greatly disappointed when raj inspite of promising her, voted for Riya. This created a huge argument and a heated exchange of words with Raj and Raman about them not being her true friends, and shamelessly back stabbing her in the end.