Kota Factory Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Mayur More, Ranjan Raj, Ahsaas Channa, Alam Khan, Revathi Pillai, Urvi Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Tillotama Shome
Crew:
Written by Puneet Batra, Nikita Lalwani, Pravin Yadav, Mahesh Chandwani
Music by Ravi Ra, Arpit Mehta, Simran Hora
Cinematography by Jerin Paul
Edited by Gourav Gopal Jha
Directed by Pratish Mehta
Created by Raghav Subbu, Arunabh Kumar
Streaming on Netflix
No. of Episodes: 05
Genre: Coming of Age Drama
Kota Factory Season 3 Web-Series Rating: 3.25/5
Kota Factory has become one of the best web-series produced by Indian production houses in last decade. After scintillating season 1 and season 2, the series returned with Season 3 in June with crowd favorite Jeetu Bhaiya in the lead role.
Now, the makers promised to offer a new chapter from the lives of his students like Vaibhav, Balmukund, Shivangi, Vartika and others. How will Jeetu Bhaiya cope up with the pressure of running AIMERS and his self imposed guilt from season 2? Let’s discuss in this review in detail.
Plot:
Jeetu Bhaiya(Jitendra Kumar) starts ignoring calls from his students and even resorts to staying at home, not taking calls. He decides to get help from a therapist to overcome his issues. At the same time, Vaibhav(Mayur More) starts to find it hard to cope up with his jealous against his cousin, who gets selected for IPL. Meena(Ranjan Raj) has issues with money and Uday(Alam Khan) gets into an accident.
New Chemistry lecturer Pooja Aggarwal(Tillotama Shome) has to decide about her future at AIMERS along with Maths lecturer Gagan(Rajesh Kumar). How will their issues resolve? Will Jeetu Bhaiya stay back and how Vaibhav will perform at IIT-JEE exam? Watch Kota Factory Season 3 to know more.
Analysis:
The makers of Kota Factory have decided to take interesting themes for Season 3. Renowned for handling young-adults’ emotions in a matured way, makers once again tried to bring emotional angle for elders, too. Jeetu Bhaiya character always seemed to be the one putting off fire but here he comes under fire throughout the season.
His struggle with being a brother to his students or their master pushes him to the empteenth level for his final decision. Jitendra Kumar, once again gave an empathetic performance as Jeetu Bhaiya.
His performance becomes key for this season as majority of emotional heavy weight has been laid on his able shoulders. Also, Mayur More as Vaibhav did connect with us again bringing the vulnerability that a young-adult faces.
Alam Khan, Ahsaas Channa, Ranjan Raj get moments to shine and they do deliver. But the big surprise and arresting factor is Tillotama Shome as Pooja. She owned the scenes she has been part off. Rajesh Kumar also found more moments to deliver and he did.
Writing wise the series did shed away the sluggish nature of Season 2. Writers catapulted the emotional weight to almost stratospheric levels. Yet, some scenes do seem to have been dragged a little bit more than they should have been.
The unbridled flow of emotions that students would face under heavy stress have been portrayed well but still some moments seem a little bit forced than earned. At the same time, the maturity with which the writers handle few issues is praiseworthy.
It is just that if they worked out a different way to keep the drama going for another season rather than the assumable and predictable way, it would have been better. Also, few moments between the young adults could have been played out a little better.
Still, Pratish Mehra gets the tone right and his sweeping aerial shots, long hold ups in conversations does work in big moments. Music, cinematographer, editing all are apt to deliver perfect mix of emotions. On the whole, Kota Factory Season 3 deserves a watch.
Positives:
Jeetu Bhaiya aka Jitendra Kumar’s performance
Ensemble cast performances
Pitch Perfect casting
Apt and melodic music
Good Cinematography
Emotional rollar coaster ride in 5th Episode
Simplistic and effective narrative
Negatives:
Some moments look a bit forced
A little predictable ending
Kota Factory Season 3 Web-Series Bottom-line: Worthy successor