MasterChef India

The melodrama is just intense, it's a cooking show, why isn't there enough coverage of the actual food? Sponsorship is everywhere, Amul this and Amul that! How can this show possibly compete with MasterChef Australia. I'm soo disappointed. Indian cuisine is my favourite cuisine, yet the show is made like a weepy soap opera!

What a pathetic show. More focus on unnecessary things and less focus on cooking. The final episode of season 6 shows how pathetic it is. Just 5-10 mins on actual cooking while the rest was just some unnecessary antics of some of the guests

Season 8 Review -

Across the globe, it has a massive fan following, and why not? We have food lovers everywhere. Watching exquisite cuisines being prepared and served is a different sort of high. I hadn't been following the seasons for quite some time, yet the thumbnail of Season 8 intrigued me.

Twelve contestants, with celebrity chefs Ranveer Brar and Vikas Khanna continuing as judges and Pooja Dhingra joining them this season. The season presented various culinary challenges to the contestants, who had to cope with the pressure to secure their place in the show.

This season was highly underwhelming, as very few challenges were unique and never seen before. Most of the time, contestants played it safe by preparing almost the same things in different versions. On top of everything, the favoritism by Ranveer and Vikas was blatant. You could guess the winner in the first 10 episodes.

The show, of course, provided dishes that make your mouth water and crave the food, but that's all. This could be achieved by any YouTube channel too. When you have many seasons, I know it's tough to bring innovation, but you've got to; otherwise, don't revive the season just to fill your prime time and gain some GRPs.

Watch it only for the love of food, or else you will be disappointed to see favoritism taking center stage and all other contestants being unfairly treated. #pranureviews #masterchefindia #masterchefindiaseason8 #masterchefindiaseason8review #masterchefindiareview.

The contestants are really talented, but the judges are not really talented upto the contestants. Making too much drama in the show to make it like a typical Indian reality show.. From the judges of MasterChef 7 especially Ranveer Brar who keeps on sniffing food, even water he is sniffing literally, anyone who loves food won't feel comfortable seeing someone smelling freshly prepared food before eating, it's kind of disrespecting. After the effort the contestants put in to make a dish within the limited time and they simply disrespect them and their food. And the advertisements , its there every 5 seconds. And lastly it's not MasterChef India , it's just MasterChef North India. Why not they make it in English and include non-Hindi speakers too.. And lot of favourism too.

Having been a hard-core MasterChef Australia fan , watched few episodes of MasterChef India S7 in the beginning but stopped viewing as it did not live upto the expectations ( maybe it was a bit unfair to compare it with the Australian version) in terms of overall presentation & the quality of judging that was bordering more on negativity than motivating the contestants most of the time. Too much over verbal publicity of the sponsors every now & then by judges & contestants is quite an annoying part. Why do you need it when the brand labels are visually projected on the screen most of the duration of the show time! Compare this to Australia version and you will know the difference in quality of content . Contestants lacked the skills one would have expected from a MasterChef contest- for example, basic use of a grill , baking essentials were new to some , use of pizza oven in the team event was a disaster & one felt sad for the contestants. Although the team events were quite enjoyable to watch. Ranveer' s judging has been good towards the last few episodes with proper tasting and feedback given , Vikas is also professional in his judging but most annoying is Garima- she doesn't taste but "pinches" the food & arrives at a conclusion which she cannot do during the finale especially when cooking of top finalists are at stake- c'mon have a heart for the effort these contestants have put in!! Format is not consistent - for example in thali event, dabbawalas voted but vote count was not shown in the end ! Another unacceptable part is contestant Aruna who does not cook non- vegetarian- how was she selected in this contest? A good cook may be a vegan but has to know how to cook both veg and non- veg cuisines at a contest level. Nayanjyoti & Suvarna show a lot of promise and Gurkirat has shown great determination in some of the episodes. This show is watchable but NOT a patch close to the MasterChef Australia in all areas( judges, contestants, presentation)