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)
17 Reviews
Cringe
preethishekhawat11 June 2021
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!
Absolutely pathetic and embarrassing
mashunews28 October 2022
I have only watched Season 6 of Masterchef India and what a waste of time it was!!
This felt like a C-grade soap opera rather than a cooking show. It had everything- useless drama, bollywood music, big boss type fights, romance - but hardly any cooking!! The Finale was the worst. They hardly showed 5 minutes of cooking. And filled the time with some unknown actor showing how to propose, music, useless jokes!! What were they thinking! Such embarrassment for India.
Masterchef Australia showcases Indian cuisine better than Masterchef India. If Indian production houses cannot do a proper cooking show, I don't think they should do season 7 and make a joke of Indian cooking and India.
This felt like a C-grade soap opera rather than a cooking show. It had everything- useless drama, bollywood music, big boss type fights, romance - but hardly any cooking!! The Finale was the worst. They hardly showed 5 minutes of cooking. And filled the time with some unknown actor showing how to propose, music, useless jokes!! What were they thinking! Such embarrassment for India.
Masterchef Australia showcases Indian cuisine better than Masterchef India. If Indian production houses cannot do a proper cooking show, I don't think they should do season 7 and make a joke of Indian cooking and India.
AMUL preAMULsents AMUL masAMULter chAMULef NORTH INDIA
OnjiMooteDaMarle18 October 2020
Season 6 Review because Hotstar's poverty couldn't help them buy other seasons (Oh, Episode 7 is missing)
It's horrible.
The judges' costumes look like they came from a fancy dress competition.
Most of the contestants don't know anything. Shame.
This is more of a master chef north India.
The show is everything but cooking - Drama, Romance and all things unnecessary.
The worst thing about this show is Amul & Sleek Ads by contestants. Depressing.
Poor imitation fueled only by ads
johnnashgm12 December 2019
Trying to be Master chef
sarathtpm15 February 2023
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.
Utterly disappointed!
siddharth-0996115 January 2022
I watched the Season 6 and I'm really disappointed. Judges didn't even seem to care about the purpose of the show. It always felt like judges just want to be rude with contestants and shout at them and make them feel depressed. I felt very unhealthy vibes while watching the show. Judges even made contestants fight with each other deliberately. The dramatic environment of the show never ends. This didn't even feel like a reality show. The show puts less focus on food and puts more focus on contestants flirting with judges and also plays
romantic bollywood songs in background to encourage it. All these made judges look very unprofessional. Many times, if one judge doesn't like the dish, other judges don't even care to try it, I don't understand why they are called judges in the first place. When they run out of dramatic ideas and still want to humiliate a contestant, there was this instance, where they criticized the contestant for the color of the plate they used. I'm done, and disappointed to waste time on this show.
Just bunch of cheap ads
sachiinnss22 February 2023
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
This is not MasterChef India, this is Master-ad-India. The participants keeps on advertising Amul, Fortune and so so brands...No surprise the end food looks pathetic.
Not a fan anymore
cabhilasha-0043924 November 2020
The sponsored ads being repeated in bthe middle by contestansts looks so fake and the feel of show is cringy because of it. Other than Chef Vikas others are giving a negative vibe. It doesn't show much passion and stressing on cleaning the station and plating too much rather than food is annoying. Maybe I'll stick to other country Masterchefs for now......
Masterchef India loosing charm with bias
swapnilchaukar11 March 2023
Have been a masterchef fan for more than a decade. However masterchef India leaves a lot to be desired. It is indeed a reality show, so a little bit of Drama is given, however it seems very strange that a contestant like health food master Priya is let go for lack of versatility & another home cook like Aruna Vijay who does not cook meat is taken till finale. I feel she doesn't deserve to be there. She has also chosen to give away her immunity pin to stay away from cooking meat. A clearly talented home cook like priyanka is let go & extremely promising cooks like Vineet & Avinash are not in the game. The Judges are excellent but to let home cook like Aruna who has personal (vegan) choices is reaching this stage seems a little unfair when we have dragged home cooks like Gurkeerat & priyanka out of their comfort zones (desert specialist) in to all type of cooking. Looks like a rigged show which has never been the case before with any masterchef.
Pathetic if you like food
brianb2722 December 2019
Horrible imitation of other versions of this show. Apparently dressing the judges like clowns is what this show has "observed".
If not the judges, then show has made the judges to act and behave for the sole purpose of creating an air of drama.
Sad to see airtime wasted like this.
Not MasterChef - Advertisement Chef
divyarajsinghdj27 November 2023
This show used to be really good, but from last few seasons they have just made it all about advertisements, the producers, director and the show only cares about how to make money instead of providing a platform for home cooks to learn and make their name.
Now they are also utilizing the contestants for showing advertisements. Every few mins they just randomly start saying promotional brand names and how they are using the premade sauces and spices.
They just bring in new product promotion every year and fool the public by saying this is MasterChef. I believe this is one of the reasons the good judges who actually love cooking deep from their heart leave the show every season. The current judge just wants to make money.
Now they are also utilizing the contestants for showing advertisements. Every few mins they just randomly start saying promotional brand names and how they are using the premade sauces and spices.
They just bring in new product promotion every year and fool the public by saying this is MasterChef. I believe this is one of the reasons the good judges who actually love cooking deep from their heart leave the show every season. The current judge just wants to make money.
Biased show
ammuj-950474 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Master chief season 7 is completely favored by contestant kamal deep (KDK).
Every time she got an opportunity to skip the challenge, however, this opportunity was not been given to any other contestants despite they performed best.
KDK was given a gift hamper of utensils whereas Shanta was just given a gift hamper of chocolates.
Despite NayanJyothi having always proved to be a better cook than KDK, but still, he was out of the 1st finalist race.
This shows all 3 judges are Punjabi and favor a Punjabi contestant...very sad for nayanjyothi.
I am still wondering why gurkirat, Sachin & Priyanka are still part of the finale race, however, their performance was not up to the mark most of the time.
Every time she got an opportunity to skip the challenge, however, this opportunity was not been given to any other contestants despite they performed best.
KDK was given a gift hamper of utensils whereas Shanta was just given a gift hamper of chocolates.
Despite NayanJyothi having always proved to be a better cook than KDK, but still, he was out of the 1st finalist race.
This shows all 3 judges are Punjabi and favor a Punjabi contestant...very sad for nayanjyothi.
I am still wondering why gurkirat, Sachin & Priyanka are still part of the finale race, however, their performance was not up to the mark most of the time.
Need a crisper, smarter and swadeshi series ..
apoorva-7611017 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
First things first why was the show so long ??
It's 2023. Not 2013.. After 20 episodes, I felt famished. My justification was that the producers and editors must have been indian television series fans and used the same skills on MasterChef too. The elimination and movement into the black apron round is stretched way long. The process could have been one episode - one challenge and the next episode - one elimination. That would have given the much needed speed that today's Netflix generation is used to.
Secondly, Indian food deserves more respect. Most of the challenges were based on foreign cuisines whether it was Mexican, Mediterranean, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Japanese. Only a few episodes were core indian. They could have added more indian rounds like an all south Indian, north indian, say everyone can work on these Gujarati or Andhra dishes. The round in the other MasterChefs, where both the contestants and the judges are asked to cook the dish that represents them usually ends up being a dish that represents their core culture. But here we get dishes from judges themselves that are with Durian fruit or a Bento box. The chef rounds have dishes like poached eggs, menagerie which are not core indian dish skills. Majority indians don't prefer these foods. Our celebrity chefs don't have a signature dish that is Indian? Not cool.
Thirdly, the judgements passed by the judges are not positive. Many times, there is a lot of insult and has a bullying vibe to them. Positivity and encouragement are very important. An example needs to be set for the audiences not just narrow-minded scolding. The audience got a feel that they are not very good at what they are asked to do in the first place. They give more significance to presentation than taste and the competition essense. If it's a relay competition, the contestants are expected to pick a familiar dish that the latter chefs can keep going with. But the judges want innovation in that. The ideas are not complimentary.
In the round of serving ppl in restaurants aka cruise/flight style, they could have given a comfort zone option of Indian food especially coz the chefs are already going to do the restaurant style cooking for the first time.
Also, they seem more comfortable in English than Hindi. If this was the case, the producers could have assigned a nice anchor.
Many a time, in classic indian kanjoosi attitude, the ingredients always fall short when the chefs go to pick them up. Thoda extra rakhi yaar..
Some of the home chefs were quite positive, whether it was taking the criticism quietly, taking unfair eliminations and team rounds in a sportive way. I hope those chefs could make a mark in the real world later. Wishing them the best of luck.
It's 2023. Not 2013.. After 20 episodes, I felt famished. My justification was that the producers and editors must have been indian television series fans and used the same skills on MasterChef too. The elimination and movement into the black apron round is stretched way long. The process could have been one episode - one challenge and the next episode - one elimination. That would have given the much needed speed that today's Netflix generation is used to.
Secondly, Indian food deserves more respect. Most of the challenges were based on foreign cuisines whether it was Mexican, Mediterranean, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Japanese. Only a few episodes were core indian. They could have added more indian rounds like an all south Indian, north indian, say everyone can work on these Gujarati or Andhra dishes. The round in the other MasterChefs, where both the contestants and the judges are asked to cook the dish that represents them usually ends up being a dish that represents their core culture. But here we get dishes from judges themselves that are with Durian fruit or a Bento box. The chef rounds have dishes like poached eggs, menagerie which are not core indian dish skills. Majority indians don't prefer these foods. Our celebrity chefs don't have a signature dish that is Indian? Not cool.
Thirdly, the judgements passed by the judges are not positive. Many times, there is a lot of insult and has a bullying vibe to them. Positivity and encouragement are very important. An example needs to be set for the audiences not just narrow-minded scolding. The audience got a feel that they are not very good at what they are asked to do in the first place. They give more significance to presentation than taste and the competition essense. If it's a relay competition, the contestants are expected to pick a familiar dish that the latter chefs can keep going with. But the judges want innovation in that. The ideas are not complimentary.
In the round of serving ppl in restaurants aka cruise/flight style, they could have given a comfort zone option of Indian food especially coz the chefs are already going to do the restaurant style cooking for the first time.
Also, they seem more comfortable in English than Hindi. If this was the case, the producers could have assigned a nice anchor.
Many a time, in classic indian kanjoosi attitude, the ingredients always fall short when the chefs go to pick them up. Thoda extra rakhi yaar..
Some of the home chefs were quite positive, whether it was taking the criticism quietly, taking unfair eliminations and team rounds in a sportive way. I hope those chefs could make a mark in the real world later. Wishing them the best of luck.
Really bad representation of Masterchef
deeprulz-3624411 June 2021
Couldn't watch a single episode since it was so dramatic. Biggest fan of Masterchef Australia, even with the latest judges. People are compassionate and it's all about food and inclusion culture. In Australia, they adore any cooking with flavor. But in India, it's all about melodrama. Not sure why that is a conception, maybe that's why Indian TV shows don't become popular internationally.
Also, the show should be renamed Master chef North India?
Also, the show should be renamed Master chef North India?
It's splitvilla 2.0
ajeet200905728 May 2021
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