There have been 4 vote-outs so far, with 5 people being voted out (2 in the first vote-out) : Simran & Varun, Vikrant, Snehashish and Ankita. So the intial 13 roadies (Ankita, Simran, Sonel, Shambhavi, Anmol, Prabhjot, Snehashish, Ashutosh, Varun, Vibhor, Vikrant, Ayaz, Nihal) have been reduced to 8 : Ayaz, Prabhjot, Sonel, Ashutosh, Vibhor, Shambhavi, Anmol, and Nihal .

After Ankita’s surprise vote-out yesterday, Prabhjot is pretty much all on her own. Sonel is there, yes, but not sure if she can be counted on – her mind works in unknown ways . As the show progresses once can actually see Sonel coming into her own, going from a disinterested participant (she actually brought a book to read to one of the tasks – and got royally dissed by the others) to a thoroughly engaged Roadie. In yesterday’s immunity task, I was actually pretty surprised to see that she managed to swing back on the trapeze after falling off once – good for her !

I had actually hoped that Ankita would have progressed on since she seemed fairly well-grounded, and was an OK performer. But the saner ones get voted out the fastest I guess. Not so in Master Plotter Snehashish’s case though. He strategized this way and that, and I’m not sure if this was the way it was edited but the one hour Roadies installment on television seemed to highlight his opportunistic tendencies; the kind of friend you wish you didn’t have.

Then there are the two other Delhi girls – Shambhavi and Anmol, who seem to band together under duress. You know what they say about birds of a feather . . . During yesterday’s show when Shambhavi was saved from elimination, they were passing around flying kisses, so glad were they of each other’s company. They both are petite and nice looking (and actually all the girls on the show are, even Prabhjot, whom Shambahavi dissed bigtime yesterday as “not hot enough to flirt with”). Talk about hitting below the belt. Both, Anmol and Shambavi, harbor delusions about being “hot” and “upper-class” – note Anmol’s frequent outpourings about Prabhjot being so “lower-class”, and “cheap”.

Sonel is easily the most striking looking of the lot, although when she opens her mouth, there it goes. Shambhavi, although pretty, is about 4 feet tall, literally and figuratively. Quite an opportunist (it’s a bad, bad world out there  ), she has the reputation of cosying up to and latching onto the man of the moment, so to speak. Unfortunately, whoever she latches onto, is voted out. Anmol seems to be more of a follower than a leader; she follows Shambhavi. And although it looks there actually might be a “nice” girl in there, under Shambhavi’s (corrupting ?) influence, the “nice” girl cowers and out comes the snideness and the illusions of being oh-so-la-di-dah.

Still, it is something to be remarked at, at how men melt when faced with seemingly “fragile” girls. Anmol cries and Ashutosh refuses to vote her out, because apparently he can’t see her weeping. Pretty much everyone can see through Shambhavi, but all she has to do is to act hurt, and the boys are at her beck and call, feeding her because she’s injured (one seriously felt bad for Ayaz then). At the auditions, I remember both Nikhil and Raghu being floored by Shambhavi “cuteness” and worried about her survival on the show, because she was so “fragile”, LOL !

For now it really looks like our lad from Saharanpur might win.