Engga Hostel

I have watched all 3 seasons of Hindi Hostel Daze and was very doubtful about the Tamil adaptation because Hostel Daze is one of TVF's weakest shows, it has gone from bad to worse to worst with every season.

Engga Hostel begins on the same note like Hostel Daze with a concentration more on Episodic treatment rather than focusing on the characters which we will be rooting for. Ragging and Porn was overused but what i liked about the porn part was not showing anything explicitly but leaving it to the audience imagination and another impressive part was about showing the Girls discussions around Porn.

The Tamil version then completely diverged from the original content from Episode 3 onwards with fresh conflicts of Senthil Mosa Raja Chang and Chithappa which was so well written and executed.

Hopefully Season 2 stops focusing on mundane theme treatments which gets tiring after a point but carry forward these fresh conflicts and develop the characters more.

ENGGA HOSTEL comes as a breathe of fresh air in the Tamil OTT space which is crowded with dark content of mostly crime.

I have consumed a lot of YouTube content based on college and school but the makers of the series seem to have made a conscious decision to not replicate them.

Each character is fleshed out in much detail but since there were so many characters the screen time could have been more, the most subtle but beautiful changes were of Chang, each episode he has very less screen space but manages to grow as a character throughout, his loyalty towards Chithappu and also mocking him to change we're subtle and elegant.

Writing and Direction were just brilliant along with the Edit and Music.

First 2 episodes felt flat but the other episodes compensated for it big time.

Season 2 promises a lot.

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?

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.

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.