Engga Hostel

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.

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.

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 is a adult comedy genre web series which launches TVF's tamil debut. The series stars a complete set of new actors.

Positives:

This series is strictly for those who like American Sitcoms. For regular cinema go-ers this series will not work.

The actors performance is delightful and they are very convincing as well as a promising debuts from the new comers

A very good production value from Prime Video

This is a technically strong series

Sendhil character's writing and acting is the biggest positive for this series

Negatives:

Repetative scenes Chittapu character is extremely annoying.

Poor direction Humor could have worked well The creators are stuck in a complex whether to make it a pure adult comedy or not which makes most scenes flat

Verdict:

A watchable fun series which could have been better. Hostel Daze is btr but this ain't bad.

Rating: 3/5.