Bollywood stars recently converged in at the Venetian resort in Macau to celebrate a decade of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards and came back with some abhorrent controversies.

The most talked-about was the one involving Priyanka Chopra and Aishwarya Rai.

Priyanka Chopra was publically humiliated by Ashutosh Gowariker, director of her next film ‘What’s Your Rashee?’, after she collected the award for the Best Actress for ‘Fashion’.

The roadies have accomplished all they could on the show, and are now back in their respective cities, basking in the glory of their slightest brush with fame, trying to look all high-and-mighty as a little kid recognizes them on the street and gladly sharing their experience with local dailies. MTV however is left with nothing to do, nothing to fill the 7 to 8 time slot on Sunday evenings and it comes up with some lousy ‘Roadies Awards’ to bore us to the core.

The recession has hit us, and hit us bad. Even good entertainment is compromised.

The arguments, the challenges, plotting, planning, swearing and the melodrama are all left behind as Nauman, Kiri and Palak walk ahead to claim the title of MTV Hero Honda Roadies 6.0.

All charged up, the roadies are taken to a rocky terrain, where a rock climbing task is set up on a steep slope. Kiri took an early lead and was cheered by the other roadies all the way up to the summit, where he came face-to-face with the twin baldies in their devilish look.

Kiri was asked to pick one out of Nauman and Palak and take him forward to the next round.

“Sufi is the winner!” everyone has been saying since a month. It’s out on the net, they said. Despite being a net-freak myself, I didn’t ever get to the actual source of the revelation but somehow I didn’t mind believing the news either. So many people saying the same thing, could not be wrong. Crash!! goes my belief. I should have learnt when they said: rumors spread faster than a fire.

After voting out Paulomi in Sydney, Palak and Nauman were called back to Mumbai for the finale. The previously ‘voted-out’ roadies were also called back in; it was hardly a surprise.

Super-smooth roads to drive on, scenic locations to feast your eyes and a lot of adventure – Is that what they call hell? Well, I don’t mind going.

As the show inches closer to its climax, roadies resort to mind games and chuck out the strong contenders – Samrat and Sufi.

Following that Rugby and Wrestling with the professionals, it was time for some ice-skating, at which, the roadies sucked. It was a money-task and with only a little over Rs. 2 lakh as the prize money, the winner is definitely not getting too rich. However, the prestige (and pride?) probably matter as well.

Whizzing on Karizma bikes on the roads of Australia, the Roadies landed in an outback for their next immunity task. There are no set teams but Tamanna, Sufi and Palak were put on one side while the other comprised of Nauman, Samraat and Natasha. Paulomi was not picked, she stood aside to watch.

Roadies have finally reached Australia. Even before they could recover from the jetlag, MTV threw the first shocker in their face -- enter Sufi, Nauman, Palak.

It had taken such tough conspiracy, clever planning, bruises, backbiting and so much more to chuck them out, for what? To buy them an easy ticket to Australia? That makes me wonder if success stories are actually made by hard-working people or just some lazy louts, who are blessed with oodles of gook luck.

Roadies are single-handed again! I mean the teams have been dissolved -- no Brats, no Om Blues. 9 of the 20 ride to the final destination in India – Silvaasa, where they come to grips with each other, while struggling for the immunity (which now transforms into a ticket to Australia).

The boys played it fair inside the wrestling ring and Samraat, aided by his passion for physical fitness, lifted up each single competitor like a baby and put him out, emerging the eventual winner. He quite convinced us of being not only the fittest but also the smartest of the lot.

Traveling, camping, hurting themselves in Gujrat might be fun for the Roadies but it was beginning to bore us and probably the show-makers realized that. Just when I had started to feel the absence of Raghu, the baldie and his twin brother made a re-entry to stir-up the stagnancy of sweetness that had been prevailing for sometime. Thank heavens! Who wants diabetes?

Did you watch the Feb 14 episode? Sorry for you; probably you had nothing better to do on Valentine’s than sit at home and watch MTV. For those who had better luck on the V-day, here’s the dope on what you missed:

The latest money task dubbed ‘pool in pool’ had the roadies trying some shots on a billiards table, kept inside a swimming pool. Sounds interesting? Wasn’t really so. While the game hardly had an appeal, the roadies further wasted their chance of making a stylish-splash, they could not even make tolerable on-screen appearances.