Rajeev Masand- My new Hero :-)

Come Saturday and I am all excited to catch up with Rajeev Masand to get a hang of what is happening at the movies during the weekend. For starters, Rajeev Masand is a movie critic who hosts a Bollywood based show on Times Now which is telecast every Saturday at 10.30 AM. The format of the show is very simple- it starts with the review of movies released during the week, has a celebrity interview, some Bollywood trivia and ends with a movie quiz. What really makes the show interesting is Rajeev Masand's movie review- He never gets into the nitty- gritties, instead he straightaway goes into the storyline in a few words and then takes up the various departments of the movie- actors, script, direction, camera, editing, music etc. Rajeev, it appears, has deep knowledge on all departments of film making and he manages to show it off quite well. His grip on the language and his uncanny screen presence just adds to the pleasure of viewing. And if it is a bad movie, the reviews get even better. Rajeev doesn't hesitate to rip the movie apart and give his honest comments which would sometimes be a bit too embarrassing for whoever is involved with the movie being reviewed. Sample this- "Nisha Kothari is the only consistent actress in Bollywood. She has been consistently bad in all her films till now. The facial gymnastics she does in the name of acting can even put a Mime artiste to shame" (Rajeev on Nisha's performance in the recently released "Go") Or this- "If I start criticizing the script, it would mean that I am accepting there was one in the first place. Now that the movie is out, I really hope someone puts those bunches of paper to good use and the only use that I can think of those is as toilet papers" (Rajeev on the script of Aggar) Being a person so fond of Bollywood in general and analyzing Bollywood movies in particular, I have found my new hero in Rajeev Masand. My Saturday mornings are reserved for him and I have become the greatest fan of his tongue-in- cheek analysis of Bollywood movies. Here is looking forward to more :) Way to go, Rajeev!