Engga Hostel

Me and my roommate binged watched this entire series. Running for five episodes with 30 minutes each,series felt like a movie watch.

But my roommate didn't connect with the characters at all,I too felt a lag in the first two episodes but the last three episodes were just so engrossing,reminded me so much of my hostel and college.

Guess this show would be on either extremes,you connect with it or have a hatred towards it like my roommate.

Coming to the performances,the girls were just brilliant,Ahana reminded me of my days in Delhi where I struggled to fit in and felt like a outsider.

Senthil was just relatable,looking forward to him and Pandi's comeback in the next season.

Watching the first two episodes I was very underwhelmed, the ragging scenes & porn scenes are mildly engaging. Too many bad words, I know it's a show about hostel & college but overuse of cursing could have been avoided.

But Episodes 3,4 & 5 were just so engaging, felt so bad for Senthil at the end, going out of the way to help people and feeling used is something I truly relate with.

Pandi was just too good, his Madurai slang and his counters to each and every situation was extremely hilarious, the scenes of him & Senthil dressed as cupids were fun.

Ahana & Raja were a delight to watch, their initial conflicts, hatred to a lovely friendship was so connecting. The love triangle story was handled so well.

Ajay was such an empathetic character, story revolves mostly around him and he has done complete justice to it.

I could rate this show 10/10 but the first two episodes brought down my rating to 8/10.

Looking so forward to Season 2.

Engga Hostel (Our(exclusive) Hostel) , labelled to be a remake of some Hindi web series, narrates the story of several characters trying to survive their college days at hostel.

See if this series came out in 2018 or something, it would have been revolutionary but at this time, where hundreds of short films and web series exist on the same concept all over internet for free, we definitely get to how 'Engga hostel' differs from its counterparts since we pay to watch this entertainment.

And the answer is nothing. Worse - this series and its screenplay is obviously confused. It is entertaining at times, we can give them that but the struggle to establish connection between the characters and the audience within 5 episodes is so visible and it felt like they were pulling efforts to make this possible.

It often felt like watching Jump Cuts as we went from one episodes to another. There were a lot of questions on why certain characters do what they do that went unanswered and a lot of feelings were unexplored.

May be this is why Amazon is doing nothing to promote this series. Final sentence is that YouTubers do better than this, why can't you?

Took me a lot of time to finish Episode 1,had to pause start and again pause since I could not connect initially. Had the same problem in Episode 2 but the Girls Hostel saved it.

The main problem I found with the first 2 episodes were that they concentrated more on ragging and porn than the actual characters. There is so much potential in each and every character, that's good writing on the characters but their development was shunted by ragging and porn.

But Episodes 3 4 5 were brilliant, it concentrated more on the characters rather than following the troupes of love, birthday and exams, the screenplay brilliantly used the above troupes to develop the characters.

I would go with 8/10.

I almost gave up on this show and called it quits but one my friends insisted me to watch the 3rd episode so I gave the show a second chance 2 days later and it was like a completely different show.

The characters started developing very well from the 3rd episode and reached a well written finale,don't know why they couldn't follow the same flow in the first two episodes.

First two episodes were so badly written with an excellent cast at hand,the girls ragging and proposing to another girl was a complete snooze fest,ragging was too stretched out & felt tiring to a point that I had to fast forward. On comparison the second episode was better but not on par with the last 3 episodes.

If you want to watch this series, skip the first two episodes,you wouldn't be missing much.