Kota Factory 2 Web Review: Full Kota for the day!

Kota Factory 2on NetflixDir Raghav SubbuCast Jitendra Kumar Mayur MoreRating 35The curse of the second season will of course always exist As it does for sequels in movies Which seldom if ever match up to the love for the originalThe second part naturally takes away the novelty of characters and worldbuilding that drew you to a show when you watched it first time on no For instance I donrsquot get how people are still going gaga over the fifth edition of Money HeistWatch VideoUnless of course the drama shifts entirely elsewhere Or the plot thickens so tight that you simply canrsquot take your eyes off the screen mdash hence The Family Man 2 or Succession 2 being the rarest of a franchise that continued to get better with subsequent installmentSo I wouldnrsquot put too much weightage on Kota Factory KF 2 not being as great as the first Because for that one must appreciate what an incredible find for a show the original KF wasis in the first placeProduced by TVF predominantly a comedy collective it premiered on YouTube among millions of videos uploaded every minute in 2019 The show itself was effectively commissioned by a tutorial company to place their advertising all overIn the same way that say Indiarsquos first TV soapopera Hum Log on Doordarshan in the rsquo80s was originally commissioned by the government as a PSA public service advertising on family planning Just as nobody remembers actor Ashok Kumarrsquos postepisode family planning gyan in Hum Log unlikely yoursquoll instantly recall Unacademy from KFSuch is how serendipity works Ever since through organic wordofmouth online alone KF rightly established itself as one of the most mature series on the lives of the studious desi young mdash altogether graduating to Netflix by its second season that is before us The other instance of such a YouTube phenomenon is probably the romcom Little Things Whatrsquos common between both shows The authenticity mdash the feel and texture of the believably real or realism so to sayStriking off at one go several timetested tropes associated with smalltown boys attempting an entrance exam in engineeringIIT in this case mdash as a oneway ticket to a better futureThis rite of passage when friends family is of course set in the coaching town of Kota in Rajasthan where classes for JEE are held and children leave their homes to enroll into competitive monasteries In turn the coaching institutes have a class system of their ownWho plays the quasi parent in such a bereft ecosystem A good teacher obviously mdash a cross between a counselor pop philosopher friend and guide anchoring both this show and the students in it Actor Jitendra Kumar plays this Jeetu Bhaiya mdash apparently modelled on a reallife legendary physics teacher one Nitin Vijay NV Sir from KotaJeetu Bhaiya similarly has acquired a cult status among the young since Jitendra Kumar effectively merging lines between actor and character doesnrsquot disappoint one bit in the sequel eitherNeither do the sweet boys and girls you were drawn towards to begin with mdashwhether itrsquos the smart kid from a village Balmukund Meena Ranjan Raj the confident loafer Uday Alam Khan or the lead Vaibhav Pandey Mayur MoreThe second season starts off in colour and then recedes to BampW like the original exuding the greyness of the lives up for display while the teenagers grapple with selfdoubt lovesickness to everything else that teenagers do mdash regardless of where they are Why should Kota be an exceptionIf anything going deeper into their lives the show comes across as far less bleak way more optimistic than yoursquod expect Since IIT and its preparations is not just an Indian subculture Itrsquos almost equally a subgenre in filmsseries mdash right from 3 Idiots to Super 30 in Bollywood Alma Matters for a documentary or the deathly dystopian Laakhon Mein Ek for a seriesAspiring to be an engineer even if most IITians pursue a separate unrelated career eventually isnrsquot such a fatally grim thing alone KF 2 underlines this well enough making a distinction between dreams and aim detachment and disappointmentThere is a line about peer pressure and a certain level of stress being good for you too As Jeetu Bhaiya explains it best If a line is the shortest distance between two points and everyone has to take it anyway you will do it with your peers how elseBut of course the settingrsquos the same Yoursquove been here before Itrsquos called Kota Factory after all As are the characters and their dilemmas and hopesfrustrations The show does descend towards passages bordering on momtype clicheacutes sometimes and even boring segments on coaching institute politics to simply keep the plot running pot boilingStill the fact is that the series holding moments confidently directed by Raghav Subbu tightly packed into five episodes averaging under 40 minutes written by Saurabh Khanna is good enough to keep you going as an audience as well The second season of TVFrsquos Hostel Daze that dropped recently on Amazon Prime Video was absolutely unwatchable in comparison wasnrsquot itAlso Read Jitendra Kumar on Kota Factory Role where I could use my reallife experiences

Kota Factory 2 Web Review: Full Kota for the day!

Kota Factory 2
on: Netflix
Dir: Raghav Subbu
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Mayur More
Rating: 3/5

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Kota Factory 2on: NetflixDir: Raghav SubbuCast: Jitendra Kumar, Mayur MoreRating: 3/5

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Kota Factory 2
on: Netflix
Dir: Raghav Subbu
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Mayur More
Rating: 3/5