28 Mar 2024
Saturday 22 December 2018 - 15:31
Story Code : 331685

What made this Iranian TV host lose his job?

What made this Iranian TV host lose his job?
Al-Monitor | : Name-calling and thinly veiled insults on the screen areno novelty for Iran'sstate broadcaster, but a recent feud between the countrys harshest film critic and a sharp-tongued talk show host has spilled to other media outlets, causing the show to go off-air.


The controversy started Nov.30, when Arash Zellipour, the young TV host of I and You,a one-on-one interview show,decided to take on Masoud Farasati, arguably Irans most-feared film critic.

It was far from a soft encounter between the elderly critic, with horn-rimmed glasses, a long beard and deliberateslow speech, and the younger host. With a wave of his hand, Zellipour interrupted a long explanation by Farasati to suggest that the critics critiques had more to do with his own ego than with Iranian cinema.

You are not as influential [on Iranian cinema] as you assume. You keep saying, 'I' and 'I' and 'I,' and you just seem to be too fond of yourself, Zellipour said, questioning whether Farasatis remarks on films "contributed at all to Iranian cinema.

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