Ashutosh Kaushik won the 5th play of MTV Roadies.
Former Roadies and Bigg Boss victor Ashutosh Kaushik opened up astir the infamous task successful the last occurrence of the season, successful which helium slapped a pistillate contestant, Shambhavi, crossed the face. The task caused controversy, with Ashutosh receiving flak for going done with it. In a caller interview, helium said that helium didn’t regret it then, hasn’t regretted it since, and won’t ever regret it successful the future. He said that the task wasn’t designed by him, and accused the show’s host, Rannvijay Singha, and shaper Raghu Ram of inciting him anterior to it.
Appearing connected Siddharth Kannan’s show, helium said, “I don’t regret it, I ne'er will. I sent a lad from my squad to beryllium slapped, my hostile sent a girl, reasoning he’ll win. But erstwhile you’re successful the battlefield, everybody’s equal. Maine ghuma ke diya thappad (I slapped her hard). Raghu got truly angry, but I privation to inquire him, ‘Who came up with the task?’ He pretends to beryllium a feminist, but he’s the 1 who came up with this idea. They adjacent edited retired what Rannvijay had said. He said that they would measurement the dependable of the slap, and that it should beryllium heard each the mode till the Petronas Towers. After I slapped her, I asked him, ‘Was it large capable for you?'”
Ashutosh said that helium adjacent agreed to get slapped successful return, though helium didn’t person to. The fault, helium said, was of the producers who came up with the task, and of his opponent, who sent a pistillate to beryllium slapped by him. He said that helium didn’t consciousness immoderate backlash from the public; successful fact, astir radical told him that he’d done the close thing. Questioning Shambhavi’s character, helium said that she would flirt with antheral contestants successful bid to get up successful the show, and that helium wanted her to halt calling him her member due to the fact that of this. He said that determination were nary hard feelings betwixt him and Shambhavi aft the task, and that they would astir apt greet each different warmly if they crossed paths today.
Previously, Raghu addressed the contention astir the slap, and admitted that the task wasn’t good thought out. He told Rediff.com, “It was a mistake. In the finale, determination were 2 boys left, and we brought backmost the remainder of the Roadies for the past bit. And the constituent was for each of the boys to person his teammates to bash tasks that would marque him win… Our conjecture was that radical would not travel guardant to bash the task, due to the fact that determination was capable animosity betwixt them… But we were amazed erstwhile radical started falling implicit themselves to bash the tasks.”