MTV Roadies Shooting in Sasaram, Bihar: Neha Dhupia, Prince Narula Arrive With 500-Member Team

Roadies has come to Bihar, and the town of Sasaram has never seen anything like it. The full team of MTV Roadies Season 21 reached Sasaram in Rohtas district on Wednesday, October 21, and started filming at Sikaria Dam, Karamchat Dam and the Kaimur hills. Neha Dhupia, Prince Narula and Nikhil Chinapa are among the stars who arrived, the district magistrate inaugurated the shoot, and a team of around 500 people is now working across the district's dams and hills, in secret, sometimes through the night. Locals say they have never seen a shoot this big — and they are already hoping it brings tourists and jobs to the town.

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The shoot: dams, hills, and night filming

The Bihar leg of the Roadies shoot is spread across three kinds of locations. Sikaria Dam and Karamchat Dam give the show water, and the Kaimur hills give it height and rough ground. The Sikaria Dam schedule is already complete, per the October 25 News18 report, while filming continues at the other locations. The team is working in a deliberately secret way — the reports stress that the shoot is being kept quiet, with filming in the hills' difficult terrain going on through the night as well.

The shoot was formally inaugurated by Rohtas District Magistrate Deepak Kumar Mishra, which tells you how seriously the district is taking it. This is not a crew slipping in and out. It is a full production that the administration is backing, with security arrangements around the shooting spots. The team of around 500 people is staying in hotels across Sasaram, and the reports say the unit is carrying everything it needs with it — tents, generators, food arrangements, shooting equipment, and special sets built near the dam.

The convoy that stunned the locals

The best account of what the shoot looks like from the ground comes from the people who live next to it. Shivkumar Paswan, a local at Sikaria Dam, told News18 he had never seen so many vehicles together in his life. When hundreds of vehicles and crowds of people suddenly appeared in the area, his first thought was that Bhojpuri star Khesari Lal Yadav had arrived. Only later did he learn that a big Mumbai TV show's team — heroes, heroines and all — had come to film.

Shivkumar's account has the kind of detail no press note would give. Thick cables were tied over the dam's lake, and modern machines of many kinds were installed, with the artists doing their activities with their help. The first time he saw the artists arguing and fighting with each other, he thought a real fight was happening — until people told him it was all part of the television shoot. For around two days, he said, the whole area felt like a fair, with crowds and vehicles everywhere. It was a completely new experience for the villagers, and his message was simple: shoots like this should keep coming, so the area gets recognised and local youth get work.

Umesh Pal: excited, but kept at a distance

Umesh Pal, who lives near Sikaria Dam and stayed around through the filming, told the same story from a slightly different angle. He said he had never seen a shoot on this scale at the location before, and the Mumbai team's grand preparations left locals excited. But he also had one regret: despite being a local, he could not meet the artists or watch the shoot from close by, because the administration did not allow people near the shooting spot for security reasons. He could only watch the activity from far away.

That distance did not dim the feeling. Umesh said he was happy that his area was chosen for such a big national-level show, and he believes it can raise the area's profile and open up tourism and job opportunities in the time to come. An elderly local at the spot said the same: it was the first time in his life he had seen such a big film team and such preparations, with tents, generators, food and full equipment brought in from outside, and a special set built near the dam. The police restrictions kept him from seeing the artists up close too — but the fact that Mumbai's big names had reached his village was enough.

Why Sasaram, and why it matters to the town

Rohtas district does not need to invent a reason for cameras to come. It already holds Rohtasgarh Fort, Sher Shah Suri's tomb, the Kaimur hills, waterfalls and several dams — a ready-made set of locations with real tourism potential. The reports note that this is the first time such a big Bollywood and television team has filmed at this scale in the area, and locals see the Roadies shoot as a door opening: if a national reality show puts Sikaria Dam and the Kaimur hills on television, films, web series and more TV shoots could follow.

The hopes are practical, not just proud. Locals quoted in the reports talk about hotels, transport, food, local business and jobs for young people. A shoot of 500 people staying in Sasaram's hotels and working across the district for days is, by itself, a burst of business. If it turns into a regular shooting destination, the effect lasts longer than the shoot. That is why the same villagers who could not get near the sets still want more shoots to come.

The Bihar leg in context

Sasaram is not the start of the Bihar leg. Before reaching Rohtas, the Roadies team shot in Gaya ji for about a week, per both the News18 and Aaj Tak reports. And the Bihar campsite was already on fans' radar before that: on October 17, Nikhil Chinapa shared an Instagram reel from a misty morning at the Roadies campsite somewhere in Bihar, saying the team had spent the whole night in tents as the mist rolled in over twenty minutes. So the Bihar schedule has been running for over a week — Gaya ji first, then Sasaram — and the footage is for Season 21's upcoming episodes. Which exact episodes the Sasaram material lands in is not confirmed, and the secretive nature of the shoot means we will only know when the episodes air.

What fans on the ground are posting

Local reels from the shoot back up the news reports. One clip from October 23 shows a young local pair in Sasaram, Rohtas, excitedly talking about the Roadies shoot in their hometown, then cuts to wide shots of the production site beside a large body of water — a grassy bank lined with production tents, colourful umbrellas, trucks, vans and crew, with people on a wooden raft in the water doing what looks like a challenge, all against green hills. Another behind-the-scenes clip from Sikaria Dam shows aerial and ground views of the same setup: vehicles on dirt tracks, blue canopy tents, and camera operators with professional equipment preparing to film.

The comments on those reels show the other side of a secret shoot in a small town. Many viewers keep asking for the exact shooting spot, while others warn that sharing the location will bring crowds and hurt the production's privacy — one creator replied that the shoot had already finished before their clip went up. That tension is part of the story too: a town thrilled to be chosen, and a production trying to keep its sets clear.

Where to watch

Roadies Rebirth airs on MTV India at 7 PM IST, with new episodes on Friday and Saturday evenings, and streams on JioHotstar. The Sasaram footage will reach screens in the season's upcoming episodes — the shoot is deliberately secret, so the episode it lands in will only be clear when it airs.

Our verdict

Confirmed: the Roadies Season 21 team reached Sasaram on October 21, the shoot was inaugurated by Rohtas DM Deepak Kumar Mishra, Neha Dhupia, Prince Narula and Nikhil Chinapa are among those who arrived, filming covers Sikaria Dam (complete), Karamchat Dam and the Kaimur hills, the team is around 500 people, and the shoot is secretive with night filming and locals kept away for security. Not confirmed: which upcoming episodes the Sasaram footage appears in, and any task results or eliminations from the Bihar leg — none of that is in the reports, and the secretive shoot means it will stay that way until the episodes air. For Sasaram itself, though, the result is already visible: a town that had never seen a shoot this big is now hoping the cameras keep coming.